Fast And Furious 6 (2013)
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Hollywood has developed a preference for trilogies. If studios find themselves with a profitable film and the potential for a sustainable franchise, they seem automatically to opt for milking the idea for all it’s worth. On the one hand, it’s tricky; the industry often confuses what it is that makes something successful, and efforts to capitalize on those items often have the undesirable effect of devaluing what made it fun and enjoyable in the first place. On the other hand, condensing or spreading a tale into three parts is simply the latest in a trend to streamline the moviemaking process to another overly-simplistic degree. It makes franchise fare “safe”, diluting the impact a second film might have. After all, if the first movie was largely successful, then a third entry is all but guaranteed, even if the second film has all the creative merit of The Hangover Part II or The Matrix Reloaded. It’s bad enough to be treated to one bad sequel without having to worry about two.
That’s what makes the continued rise of the Fast and Furious franchise so remarkable, creating stardom for a multiethnic cast that included Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster. While 2001’s The Fast and the Furious was certainly a major hit with over a billion earned worldwide, the franchise was already losing traction with the 2003 sequel 2 Fast 2 Furious, which saw Diesel leave and Walker attempt to carry things on his own, with mixed results. Then came 2006’s The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, which moved the series to the other side of the planet and only included a single cameo from any of the original cast. That more than anything ought to have been indicative of how far the series had fallen, unlikely to revive itself outside direct-to-DVD format.
However, if Tokyo Drift had even one redeeming quality, it was Justin Lin. The Taiwanese director managed to pull off the impossible, changing the Fast and Furious franchise from the road-raging car porn it had been into an exciting heist franchise, starting by getting the main cast of Diesel, Walker, Rodriguez and Brewster back together for the abbreviated Fast & Furious in 2009. This brought audiences back to the theaters, and with the franchise popularity successfully revived, Lin upped the ante in 2011 with Fast Five by not only bringing back the fan-favorite secondary characters from previous entries (Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Sung Kang and Gal Gadot, among others), but also in adding modern action superstar Dwayne Johnson as a secondary antagonist and hesitant ally to our familiar crew. Viewers responded by turning out in record numbers, justifying Lin’s decision to change directions and recreate a fun, if physically impossible popcorn series.
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Hollywood has developed a preference for trilogies. If studios find themselves with a profitable film and the potential for a sustainable franchise, they seem automatically to opt for milking the idea for all it’s worth. On the one hand, it’s tricky; the industry often confuses what it is that makes something successful, and efforts to capitalize on those items often have the undesirable effect of devaluing what made it fun and enjoyable in the first place. On the other hand, condensing or spreading a tale into three parts is simply the latest in a trend to streamline the moviemaking process to another overly-simplistic degree. It makes franchise fare “safe”, diluting the impact a second film might have. After all, if the first movie was largely successful, then a third entry is all but guaranteed, even if the second film has all the creative merit of The Hangover Part II or The Matrix Reloaded. It’s bad enough to be treated to one bad sequel without having to worry about two.
That’s what makes the continued rise of the Fast and Furious franchise so remarkable, creating stardom for a multiethnic cast that included Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster. While 2001’s The Fast and the Furious was certainly a major hit with over a billion earned worldwide, the franchise was already losing traction with the 2003 sequel 2 Fast 2 Furious, which saw Diesel leave and Walker attempt to carry things on his own, with mixed results. Then came 2006’s The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, which moved the series to the other side of the planet and only included a single cameo from any of the original cast. That more than anything ought to have been indicative of how far the series had fallen, unlikely to revive itself outside direct-to-DVD format.
However, if Tokyo Drift had even one redeeming quality, it was Justin Lin. The Taiwanese director managed to pull off the impossible, changing the Fast and Furious franchise from the road-raging car porn it had been into an exciting heist franchise, starting by getting the main cast of Diesel, Walker, Rodriguez and Brewster back together for the abbreviated Fast & Furious in 2009. This brought audiences back to the theaters, and with the franchise popularity successfully revived, Lin upped the ante in 2011 with Fast Five by not only bringing back the fan-favorite secondary characters from previous entries (Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Sung Kang and Gal Gadot, among others), but also in adding modern action superstar Dwayne Johnson as a secondary antagonist and hesitant ally to our familiar crew. Viewers responded by turning out in record numbers, justifying Lin’s decision to change directions and recreate a fun, if physically impossible popcorn series.
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