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I saw Fast and Furious 6 last night with my SO and another friend of ours. This was what I thought of it.

There are many spoilers below.

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- The writers put all of the burden of comic relief on Roman, and there were a lot of times when I saw the way the guy clowned around and couldn't remember why Dom and Brian kept him around. I haven't watched the second or fifth movies in a while, and I think he always had his silly moments. But I know he had to be more competent and less ridiculous than he was in this one.
At the same time, Tej continues to be awesome and competent and a complete tech geek, and my favorite out of the supporting cast.

- Yay for Letty, for fighting like a demon (the fight scene with her and Riley was well-done and not treated as fanservice at all) and for standing up to Shaw, and - my favorite - for immediately shutting down Brian's manpain during his apology and telling him that she knew she chose to do whatever it was he asked her to do, even though she couldn't remember it.

- At the same time, I did like that the movie remembered that not everyone in this group knew how to fight, in the scene with Han and Roman and that one guy who beat them both pretty soundly. (And Roman's "No one has to know about this!" line was one of his few lines in the film that actually made me laugh, because the situation was just so absurd, and it worked.)

- I was expecting the worst with the way the film would treat Elena (the Brazilian lady that Dom was living with at the end of Fast Five,) especially when the trailers that I saw didn't show her at all. But I was pleasantly surprised. She understood why Dom wanted to go after Letty. She pretty much told him immediately that she'd probably do the same thing in his case. She stayed around and managed to keep little Jack out of danger. She obviously still cares about Dom and his family, although she made the decision that she wasn't really a part of it, and that was okay! No bitterness, no jealous behavior towards Letty, maybe a bit of sadness - but it was okay, and she got to make that her choice. I was honestly afraid she'd end up fridged early on, or just completely ignored or written off. I was glad she wasn't, and that she's apparently working with Hobbs again at the end.

- Speaking of Hobbs, everything the man said was ridiculous, even when it wasn't. I can't help but think Johnson did that on purpose. (Also, Samoan Thor is the best nickname for him ever, so thank you for that, Tej.)

- I never could get a handle on Shaw. When he was talking to his crew about Dom's crew, he came across as the kind of villain that at least has a moral code. Then he had that conversation with Dom where he talked about precision, and okay, that makes sense, given how he reacted to one of their deaths earlier in the film (which is to say, very little.) But then there was the tank scene, which shows him as a sadist and didn't make sense with either of those bits of information about him. Is he some kind of chameleon who is whatever he has to be to best manipulate/intimidate whoever he's talking to? Or is he just an inconsistently-written villain?

- And of course we have the obligatory "random women in ridiculous clothes dancing around at a street race" scene that always makes me wonder where the heck they get those women. It's fanservice taken to the point of being completely creepy. (Also, what time of year was this movie set during, anyway? With those outfits, it had better be during the summer.)

- Riley's betrayal didn't surprise me - someone had to be on Shaw's payroll. It was part of the formula, just like Shaw's setup at the NATO base in Spain (I'm so glad SOMEONE saw through that) and Mia's kidnapping. And I was sure that it wasn't anyone in Dom's family, so it had to be the new girl. Pity, though. (It was set up well - that fight with Letty and the confrontation before it with the man who built the cars didn't look staged. I seriously doubt anyone was pulling any punches. And she played to Hobbs' apparent love for tough, competent ladies so well that he certainly didn't suspect her.)

- Our friend pointed out a couple of plot holes that popped up at about the time they hit the NATO base. One involved the tank scene - he said that tank was basically too large to be on a NATO base (he knows more about that sort of thing than I do, because I wouldn't have known that a seventy-ton tank was too big to be believed. The other involved the cargo plane at the end, which I agreed with - how the heck did that plane even get close to the base without being detected and challenged? I mean, Shaw having someone on his payroll for London's CC system, I could believe. But I can't quite suspend my disbelief as far as him having someone in his pocket that could make that possible.

- I kept wanting Mia to find something she could use as a weapon and try to help Dom and Brian when they were fighting on the plane at the end. C'mon, Mia, you've done awesome things during the rest of the series. I guess I can understand that she's gotten comfortable enough with her life in the Canary Islands that she's lost some of her edge, and I don't know if she's established as knowing how to defend herself at all like I said above, but I was still hoping she'd try to do something. (And this isn't an attack against her. It's just that I hate that trope so damn much that I immediately twitch and rage when I see it.)

- The Han/Gisele relationship made me both happy and sad, since I knew what was likely to happen because of Han's ultimate fate. Especially sad at the end, when Gisele realized what she had to do to save Han's life, and did it. *sniff* That kind of self-sacrifice always gets to me, at least when it really is the only choice. (If it's unnecessary, it makes me almost as angry as the Damsel in Distress trope does.)

- Re: Last scene - what? WHAT???

So yeah, okay. It was more fun for my SO, who was squeeing over the cars and the driving and the fight scenes the whole time, but it a ridiculous fun movie for the most part. And it had some pleasant surprises. I would've been satisfied if the franchise had ended here. We'll see what happens next, I suppose.

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