Review of Fast X (2023) by Amsleeping — 31 May 2023

The movie is 95% action, 5% character development, 0% logic. To be enjoyable, you will need to switch off your brain while watching. In the fast n furious world, stereotypes are the norm and the laws of physics bend to the will of the protagonists.

The priority of the movie is to deliver increasingly ridiculous action scenes. Because science and logic doesn't even apply, there is little suspense as to how much danger the protagonists are supposed to be in.

Instead, it's just a wowfest of explosions and bad judgements. To make matters worse, the dialog and characters are so very flawed. Spoilers here but the story is supposedly around this 'rough around the edges' gang that value family and do good in the world by being badass.

Yet, when they were framed and hunted by the law instead, it became very ok to kill the law enforcers who they were working with before and are just doing their job. In another scene, I grimaced in the cinema as Dom lectures to Dante about how silly he is for not building a family but instead focusing on revenge.

.. Yet, the whole plot of the movie is based on Dante who forms a vendetta against Dom for killing his only family member; his dad. Ironically, we also see Dom killing many people in the name of trying to save his family as well as for revenging those he had lost.

.. In another scene we see Dom abandoning his friend to a car bomb. But because it was just a close friend who stuck up for him and not 'family', it was a non-event for Dom even after seeing his friend explode in front of him, as well as partly being the reason for it.

The plot holes are numerous and the logic of the scenes insulting to viewers.