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Speaker 1: Break the Flick with Beno on ninety six FM. Well Ben,

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Speaker 1: good morning, Good morning guys. I guess you've seen all

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Speaker 1: the Fast and the Furious movies. Unfortunately, Yes, yes, is X.

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Speaker 1: This one is Fast X, the tenst part of the

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Speaker 1: door something. You know, the first one was. It came

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Speaker 1: out in two thousand and one and since then, across

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Speaker 1: this nine film series, coming up to this tenth one,

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Speaker 1: it's earned more than nine billion dollars at the global

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Speaker 1: box office, an insane amount of money. These movies are

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Speaker 1: unashamedly big and dumb, and Fast X is the biggest

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Speaker 1: and dumbest. And that's saying as you know that going

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Speaker 1: in and that's saying something. And Fast nine they actually

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Speaker 1: fired a car this will sound ridiculous into space, oh

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Speaker 1: to a homemade rocket shot. And because like because the

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Speaker 1: once upon a time, you know, there were simple movies.

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Speaker 1: Vin Diesel's Dom Touretto Carrish, you know, talked about the

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Speaker 1: importance of family and how you had to live your

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Speaker 1: life a quarter mile at a time. And it was

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Speaker 1: basically about nice cars and street drag races. That was

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Speaker 1: basically it. And it was just about bragging rights who

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Speaker 1: had the fastest car. There wasn't much more to it

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Speaker 1: than that. But then over the years they became more

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Speaker 1: elaborate as films. It became less about driving cars across

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Speaker 1: a quarter mile on a city street and became about

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Speaker 1: fighting crime or fighting global conspiracies, say the world Superhero

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Speaker 1: the thing right, They kind of became like a superhero

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Speaker 1: movie or a James Bond movie. They traveled the world,

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Speaker 1: fought super villains, and so they got increasingly ridiculous. And

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Speaker 1: in past nine year there was one scene where defeating

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Speaker 1: defeating the villain who wanted to take over the world

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Speaker 1: involved shooting a car into space. Somehow it they definitely

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Speaker 1: the space is a lot further above a shark sound

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Speaker 1: like something Doctor Evil would do exactly. So at this

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Speaker 1: time around it's more of the same, like they're traveling

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Speaker 1: around the world. This time the villain is played by

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Speaker 1: Jason Mooa. He's actually one of the best bits about

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Speaker 1: the film. It's a very interesting character, sort of androgynists,

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Speaker 1: which is an interesting counterpoint to Vin Diesel's kind of

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Speaker 1: big macho vibes. But how he fits in his character

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Speaker 1: Dante Reyes. To get him into this movie, they've had

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Speaker 1: to do a flashback at the start of the film

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Speaker 1: to Fast five and what they call a retcon, which

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Speaker 1: is where it happens in TV and films all the time,

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Speaker 1: where they kind of take an old bit of footage

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Speaker 1: and kind of insert a few additional bits of information,

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Speaker 1: maybe with some CGI trickery or a couple of extra

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Speaker 1: scenes to make you realize as the viewer that, oh,

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Speaker 1: hang on a minute, there was something else going on

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Speaker 1: in that scene that we never realized at the time.

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Speaker 1: Now we know. And so Fast five. The villain in

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Speaker 1: that film, Hernan Reyes, was a drug lord. Turns out

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Speaker 1: he had a son, Dante, who when his dad was

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Speaker 1: killed by Dom Toretto and the gang. He's like, obviously

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Speaker 1: was pretty upset about that. Still ten years later, bit

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Speaker 1: ticked off, and it's like, so I'm going to teach

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Speaker 1: you a lesson, Dom and crue. I'm going to make

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Speaker 1: you suffer and then I'm going to knock you off. Basically,

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Speaker 1: that's basically the thing. And he wants he wants the

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Speaker 1: world to pay the price. So he's going after you know,

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Speaker 1: like a Dom and Ludicrous and all of the guy

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Speaker 1: Michelle Rodriguez, all the team, and so they travel the world,

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Speaker 1: you know, basically doing battle in a variety of different

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Speaker 1: scenes and burn a lot of burnout, so many donuts,

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Speaker 1: Paul and Dewey's all over the place, and it's crazy.

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Speaker 1: The film is crazy, Like it's completely bonkers. Like there's

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Speaker 1: one there's one scene early on where there's a bomb

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Speaker 1: that's sort of conveniently spherical that rolls through Rome and

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Speaker 1: is going to roll on the front door of the

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Speaker 1: Vatican unless unless Vin Diesel stops it, and the way

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Speaker 1: he stops it is just totally insane. But so you

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Speaker 1: expect that though, right, But these films, you expect them

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Speaker 1: to be completely stupid. Yeahs. The problem is always that

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Speaker 1: the least believable stuff is not the stunts, it's the actor.

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Speaker 1: Oh yes, the scenes that really stretch your ability to

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Speaker 1: suspend your disbelief, the scenes where characters are just sitting

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Speaker 1: around talking and the stuff that they're saying is just

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Speaker 1: so totally inane and stupid you just go, oh, come on.

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Speaker 1: And one of the greatest achievements of this film is

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Speaker 1: of these films is that they can take great actors.

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Speaker 1: And there are four Oscar winners, Fast X, Charlie's thereon,

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Speaker 1: Rita Moreno, Helen Mirren and bre Larsen. They look like

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Speaker 1: they cannot act. How honestly, it looks like they've forgotten

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Speaker 1: how to act. That's how bad the dialogue that would

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Speaker 1: have benefited from a road to strike. But the films

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Speaker 1: do such a good job of making actors like Jason

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Speaker 1: Momoa and Vin Diesel look amazing. So good actors look

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Speaker 1: terrible mirror other actors maybe be questionable, look amazing, And

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Speaker 1: so you have to go in bearing that in mind.

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Speaker 1: Check your brain, check your brain at the door, and

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Speaker 1: you know you'll get some great cars. There's a new DeLorean,

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Speaker 1: there's Lamborghinis, there's a vintage alf fora Romeo. There's the

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Speaker 1: Dodge Charge. But do they just ruin them all? Most

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Speaker 1: of them gets totally totally trash Insurance companies no, man, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well how many chan will probably do us? Now? Are

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Speaker 1: you giving it? I'm sad to report that there could

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Speaker 1: be another two more of this. One's, you know, one

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Speaker 1: of those two parties. Best thing it ends on a cliffhanger,

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Speaker 1: so be aware of that. Two stars all right, so

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Speaker 1: hasn't peaked to come? Thanks, thank you for man