where: MOVIE2K.TO via Stream2K on my Laptop
when: Thursday, April 28th, 2011
show: 10:15 p.m.
costs: $0.00 Stream
auditorium: My Living Room
seat: My Swivel Chair
2nd time:
where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Friday, April 29th, 2011
show: 6:15 p.m.
costs: $10.25 Ticket + $8.14 dinner @ Selecta Filipino Buffet = $18.39
auditorium: 7
seat: 3rd row, 12th column
synopsis/overview: Dominic ( Vin Diesel ), Brian ( Paul Walker ) and Mia ( Jordana Brewster ) need to do one last job for the head mobster in Rio before they can disappear. But when a train robbery doesn't go as planned, they decide to take all of the mobster's money as payback by assembling the best and fastest crew to get the job done right.
noteworthy scenes: 1.) Bus crash; 2.) "How does it feel to be on the other side of a wanted poster"; 3.) "There's a job coming up"; 4.) No extradition; 5.) Train robbery; 6.) Bridge; 7.) "Wherever she hides, I will find her"; 8.) "They wanted this car"; 9.) "I like her smile"; 10.) "I own them"; 11.) "'Almost wished I didn't see it"; 12.) "You're motivated"; 13.) Delivery schedule; 14.) Gunfight; 15.) Pregnant; 16.) Conflicting M.O. ( method of operation ); 17.) "You ain't gonna be like that, Brian"; 18.) "Then, we're gonna need a team"; 19.) 100 million dollars; 20.) "We ain't stealing it"; 21.) "Nobody in Rio is stupid enough to rob Reyes ( Joaquim de Almeida )"; 22.) Police station; 23.) Surveillance cameras; 24.) "It says Caucasian"; 25.) Remote-controlled toy car; 26.) Police station men's room; 27.) "Home, sweet home"; 28.) "We're gonna need a faster car"; 29.) Beach; 30.) Hand print; 31.) "You're a long way away from home"; 32.) "Tracker's on"; 33.) "I never thought anyone could understand so much, but you do"; 34.) "First time I've ever been in the front seat"; 35.) "He let you win"; 36.) Barbecue; 37.) "You just made a big mistake"; 38.) Ambush; 39.) "I named him after you"; 40.) "I'm in"; 41.) The case; 42.) The bridge; 43.) "For my team, you son-of-a-bitch"; 44.) "There are two in the Western Hemisphere"; 45.) "We'll get there, eventually"; 46.) "You know I want another shot"; and 47.) Bonus Scene at the end of the Ending Credits.
favorite scenes: I liked the Train Robbery scene.
I liked the Off The Bridge scene.
I liked the Get-Away Chase scene.
audience reaction: N/A. I watched this all by my lonesome ....
2nd audience reaction: The audience really liked this. Although it didn't get a "Hands Clapper" ending.
recommendation: I liked this, too. If you're into action, fast cars and hot women, this movie is for you.
spoiler alert! Buses don't have passenger seatbelts. When that prison bus went tumbling around, the prisoners should have tumbled around with it, too! Some of the prisoners would have even been thrown out of the bus. No fatalities, my butt! The front end of the train robbers' truck should have been smashed-in when it hit the bridge; but a later scene showed the truck's front end with only little damaged. Why did they look so calm and composed when they jumped-out of the falling Corvette? How did Dominic easily get out of the chain tied around his wrists? Vincent's ( Matt Schulze ) armed guards packed more heat than the drag-racing crowd. Why, then, could not his armed guards intimidate the Feds into backing away from the place? Those are actual houses in the slum area where they did the roof-top chase scene. Hey! get off my roof, you crazy Americanos. And what happened to Vincent's armed guards during the firefight between Reyes' men and the Feds? Why did Elena ( Elsa Pataky ) keep the necklace when that would be considered "Tampering with the Evidence"? So Dominic wants a "chameleon", someone who can blend-in easily anywhere in the world--yeah, right. I'd like to see the Korean, Han ( Kang Sung ), blend-in in a roomful of white and/or black people! 'Cause the only way he'd blend-in is if he was a waiter in a Chinese restaurant! Hey, wait a minute, come to think of it, there are Chinese restaurants all over the world. Scrap that! My bad .... Why were the women in the cocaine lab wearing their underwear when they usually are supposed to be butt-naked ( damn the PG-13 rating! )? Gisele's ( Gal Gadot ) bikini bottom was not washed to preserve the hand print. Well, then, my "guy" question is: Did they sniff the crotch area of her bikini bottom when she wasn't around? Ahh ... 'smells good. L.O.L. ( 'Sorry folks, it's just the dog in me--bow, wow, wow, yippee-yow, yippee-yaw. ) And speaking of the hand print, why was it so sharply-defined when in the hand-touching-her-butt scene, Reyes moved his hand around it? How come those fancy cop cars did not get equipped with Lo-Jack? Nobody noticed how long it took them "circus clowns" to "fix" the men's room in the police station. And how would the "circus clowns" be able to get away with cutting-out that hole in the wall if their patch-up job would obviously smell of fresh paint? And how exactly did they know what color paint to use for their patch-up job since they never bothered to do a Color-Match on the wall paint beforehand? With the police station men's room out-of-order, all of those parked police vehicles in the parking lot probably got their tires wet with urine! Why didn't they have the outnumbered and outgunned Feds leave behind their guns, ammo and gear? Who's the dumb-ass idiot who put a couple of dried coconuts in the barbecue scene's fruit bowl? The pieces of glass that Hobbs ( Dwayne, "The Rock," Johnson ) spat-out were safety glass; and whoever heard of safety glass used in house windows? Not me, not I, no sirree, Bob! In the ambush scene, why didn't anybody bother to reload their weapons? The towing rig that they welded onto those two cars would not be strong enough to hold together from the stress of the tow load. And speaking of tow load, each car only had about a 2,000-pound towing capacity if the towed object were set on wheels! Each car was about 5,000 pounds, but the door--alone--of the bank vault probably weighed at least four times as heavy as each of the cars! In real life, because it was a bank vault, they would not have been able to tow it since it didn't have wheels; instead, they would have been forced to drag it along, if at all! Heck, any of those other cop cars could have easily caught up to them with that thing that they were dragging around. Hell, even a cop on foot could have chased them down! Don't they have police helicopters in Brazil? Why didn't the motorcycle cops just shoot-out the tires? Why wasn't the military called-in to assist? Yeah, Dominic didn't kill the DEA agents, but he sure left a lot of dead Brazilian cops in his wake! Why was Hobbs always so sweaty? Did he forget to bring his bottle of baby oil to make his muscles look shiny so that he had to settle for that "Manly Sweat" look, instead?
fyi: YouTube has a video of the "Five year old screenwriter of FAST FIVE." It's really cute and funny. You might want to check it out.
word of advice: Speed kills.
tidbits: I had to see this movie again on the Big Screen because the up-loaded movie on the internet is not a good copy: A quarter area of each scene, on the right side, is cut-off from the film. And the movie cuts-off early during the Ending Credits, omitting an important-for-the-next-sequel ( ? ) Bonus Scene with Eva Mendes and Michelle Rodriguez in it.
After a long day at work, eating a big dinner, then going to see this movie at the local theatre, I got too sleepy to blog about this as soon as I got home. And I overslept. So, sorry for the delay.
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