![]() ![]() They feature openly sentimental, oddly complex storytelling. They have a huge, talented, racially diverse cast. They boast a healthy affection for old-fashioned, practical effects work, where most of the cars we see crashing are really cars crashing, not sprites in a computer. The Fast & Furious movies stand as one of the best film franchises America has going for it right now - and maybe even a gloriously dumb representation of everything good about America. That experience made me not just a convert, but an evangelist. Then I watched the first seven of them in a week. I had always been skeptical of the films' powers, perhaps because I had only seen 2 Fast 2 Furious (easily the worst installment) and Fast Five - without sound, while on a plane (still pretty awesome). There was a time when I had seen but one and a half movies in the Fast & Furious franchise.
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