Dom Torreto (Vin Diesel), his wife Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), and son Brian lived a quiet rural life after their latest adventure by defeating cyber-terrorist Cipher (Charlize Theron). However, dire circumstances force them to once again confront Cipher, who was now being held by wealthy megalomaniac Otto (Thue Ersted Rasmussen) and Dom’s estranged brother Jakob (John Cena), who were after the two halves of a powerful device. called Project Aries, which could give its operator the ability to hack into any computer system in the world.

It’s already the ninth installment in the Fast and Furious franchise, and the direct sequel to “The Fate of the Furious” (2017). Besides Letty, other members of Dom’s family here were Roman (Tyrese Gibson), Tej (Chris “Ludacris” Bridges), and Ramsey (Nathalie Emmanuel). Later, we’ll also see more returning members, like Dom’s sister Mia (Jordana Brewster) and Han (Sung Kang), as well as Sean Boswell (Lucas Black), Twinkie (Shad Moss), and Earl Hu (Jason Tobin). ), from “Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift” (2006).

As the ninth film, the pressure on this final installment was to somehow replace all of the death-defying, physics-defying motor vehicle stunts that had been performed by Dom and his crew to impress their fans over the past eight films. . This time around, one of the main gadgets operating in several scenes was a powerful electromagnet system, capable of pulling cars off the street. Later in the film, we even see Roman and Tej launch into space in a makeshift rocket using a Pontiac Fiero.

You can just imagine this film’s innovative stunt team in their brainstorming sessions as they come up with the wackiest car stunts they’ve ever tried before. There was an impossible one from the start when Dom hitched a car to a rope to swing across a chasm. Later in Tbilisi, Dom was able to force a huge, invincible 16-wheeler truck-trailer called the Armadillo, to transform into a turtle and hit a flying drone that fired at him. Even Helen Mirren (as Queenie Shaw, Deckard’s mother) had her own crazy car stunt with Dom as the passenger.

In a meta scene, Roman commented on how amazed he was that all of them could repeatedly survive even the most terrible car crashes unscathed. That’s what they’ve done over and over again here, overturning all the laws of physics, logic and human kinetics.

Dom can literally pull a rocky ceiling over him and fall into a bottomless pit; or jump from a burning monster truck onto a concrete road and still survive without breaking your bones. It’s escapist popcorn cinema that people love to watch on the big screen, and it certainly won’t stop at nine.

This review was originally posted on the author’s blog, “Fred Said”.