Fast X (2023) Movie Review

With my PHD in the Fast and Furious franchise I have both pluses and minuses with episode ten. I prefer its leaner nature to the overwhelmingly messy previous two installments - though the heyday of 5,6&7 is long gone - but that said, the $340 million shooting budget isn't visible and the profit point of $850 million pure insanity. There are, however, a lot of down sides. Too many characters, meaning no one gets much meaningful screen time, exacerbated by splitting up that main cast - the best thing about the franchise - into different locations, meaning they're never together and have even less screen time. It's also quite repetitive, thinly written, and as a result, weakly performed. Let's hope the finale performs a Harry Potter/Hunger Games and sends the franchise off into the sunset with a much better film.