I saw it last night with my wife. She's a car nut as well so we were pleased to go see it. I liked the first movie the best. This one was probably my second fave, and frankly the 2nd and 3rd movies were just so so. Yes, they are cheesy (aka check your brain at the door) types of movies. But being a gearhead, frankly we just don't get enough "auto" related movies. So I give a lot of leeway with regards to plot/thought in this type of movie.
With that said, my only real reserve with this movie was kind of two fold involving certain actors....
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Why even have Michelle Rodriguez's character in the movie? I realize that her characters death was the catalyst behind Dom's return to LA, but she could have practically pulled a Talia Shire in the last Rocky movie and just as well not been in the movie.
And I was interested to see how they would tie in the character "Han" from the Tokyo Drift movie since Dom's character knew him in the past. But he was also a rather wasted character in the movie. Also with regards to Han, since we know he left in this movie to go to Tokyo, this movie appears to actually be the "3rd" F&F movie timeline wise with O'Connor being in the FBI.
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