Fast X
The Torretto "Family" is back in a film that Vin Diesel claims is the second or third last of the series, depending on when you ask him. Fast X had some cleanup to do since F9 made a lot of money but many fans of the series had the same middling reaction to it that I did. After watching the last several Fast films in the cinema we decided to wait to see the new one on Redbox. The question I had going into this one was could the series rediscover the balance of providing fun without going too far into implausibility? Spoilers below The nicest thing I can say about Fast X is that it is better than F9. Justin Lin, who has directed three good Fast films and two bad ones, left the film about a week after production began over story issues and Louis Letterier (who directed The Incredible Hulk and the Transporter films) took over. Fast X is a mild improvement over F9 because it is has a more memorable villain in Jason Momoa and none of the characters go to space. But otherwi