There is bit more than a month left until the tenth Fast & Furious movie ? eleventh if we count the spin-off ? hits theaters around the world with a fresh helping of Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his family.
If we started watching Fast & Furious movies today, it could be easy to forget that Fast & Furious began as a film concerning the illegal street racing scene in Los Angeles, coupled with a criminal plot led by the Toretto "family."
The clandestine races were an integral element in the initial four Fast & Furious movies, but they were relegated to the background until they almost disappeared in the fifth installment, and since then they have been only mere winks.
That may be about to change in Fast & Furious 10, which aims to bring back the street racing that fueled the franchise in its early days.
In an interview with Total Film (via CBR), the director of Fast X, Louis Leterrier, has stressed that the finish of the saga will recover that part of the first films that has been eclipsed by the large doses of excessive action. .
While Fast & Furious was triumphing with its first installment, Louise Leterrier took advantage of the slipstream with films like Transporter and its own sequel. Time wanted him and Jason Statham to meet again in an identical saga, in addition to different.
"As a fan, there are a few things that I needed to create back from the franchise, like street racing. That's the fun of it: if you are the director of a movie series you've admired for so many years, you may make your fantasies become a reality!"
With the finish of the primary saga in sight, it's a positive thing that Louis Leterrier wants to bring back a component as iconic to Fast & Furious as street racing. We'll see if Dominic Toretto is once more the king of the streets or if these races remain some sort of flimsy nod to fans of the saga for a lot more than 20 years.
Or perhaps it had been simply that they were wrong. Because 'Super Mario Bros: The Movie' is really a paragon of filmic madness shot at an extremely interesting speed and with a constant beating of the characters that brilliantly recalls the beatings that Sylvester the cat or Roadrunner received (and receives), not to mention the poor villains who have been facing Popeye. Furthermore, the princess (sita) of the Mushroom Kingdom looks more, much more, like Furiosa or Michelle Rodriguez than Goldilocks or Anna from 'Frozen'.
Speaking of Michelle, there is a chase scene with absolutely transformative vehicles, a chase through the Rainbow highways, that could be assumed as a fabulous preview of the upcoming 'Fast & Furious X'. Yes Yes. For me 'Super Mario Bros' is, during that crazy gizmo race, a complete 'Fast & Furious 9 3/4'. And on the soundtrack, aside from sensei Kondo's original songs and Brian Tyler's compositions, Bonnie Tyler singing 'Holding for a Hero', AC/DC and Bizet's Carmen.
They lied. Or Fast X Online were wrong. This is one of many funniest & most brilliant movies. And very neighborhood. From a NY neighborhood. Very Brooklyn. With a touch of 'Little Italy'. Without forgetting King Turtle (nothing to do with the ninja mutant chelonians of the rat master, they're very New Yorkers too) who rocks and rolls in love with Princess.
