This time, illegal street racer and thief Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his motley crew are enjoying their retirement after their big heist at the end of Fast Five. Federal Agent Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) finds them, not to arrest them, but to recruit them for an important assignment.
British Special Agent Owen Shaw (Luke Evans) has assembled his own motley crew to strike military targets. One of them is Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), Dom's thought to be dead girlfriend. Their goal is to steal enough parts to make a blackout bomb, and sell it to the "right buyers." Dom's crew is assigned to stop them before they can put it together. If they can do that, they'll get pardons for their criminal pasts.
This sixth installment is the fourth by director Justin Lin and writer Chris Morgan. As usual, they come up with impossible and amazing stunts with fast cars. Especially so is its finale, when they use their cars to bring down a Jumbo Jet. It's goal is to entertain, and for that, it succeeds.
Outside of the cars, the heroes make for an entertaining ensemble. They work so well together, and their dialogue can get hilarious. Hobbs, in particular, has an interrogation scene that's so intentionally stupid it's funny. Evans, as the bad guy, is so perfectly vile that the audience has no trouble wishing him dead.
A bit of the plot depends on the events of the fourth film, Fast & Furious. It brings the viewer up to speed well enough so they won't get lost. Still, one has to be familiar with the third movie, Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, to get the during-credit scene. Any continuity snags are rendered inert by the overall fun factor of this sequel.
This film is for those who love their cars fast and/or their stunts impossible. The next sequel, title yet to be determined, is already coming next year. Its aforementioned during-credit scene introduces the next bad guy; he goes unnamed, but his presence will leave the audience wanting more.
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