It's nice to see Han back, even if he isn't given all that much to do. In fact, there's a fair bit of fan service sprinkled throughout this film for the hardcores that almost makes buying a ticket worthwhile. Characters most filmgoers won't even remember like Don Omar's Santos and Shea Whigham's Agent Stasiak briefly drop by. Even better, half the damn cast of The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (forever the most underrated installment in the saga) returns, including Lucas Black, Shad "Bow Wow" Moss and Jason Tobin. (Against all odds, it's Tobin who gets the one legitimately hilarious laugh line in the movie). There's also a post-credits stinger that promises a movie that's better than the one we just watched. (Strengthening my theory that Fast & Furious and Marvel are the only two franchises that should be allowed to have post-credits scenes. They're the only two that have earned the right.)
Watching The Fast and Furious movies is one of my guilty pleasures. When I heard that a tenth movie was going to come out, I had to binge the previous nine within two months. In case you are not familiar with The Fast and Furious movies, they can be described as action movies with a lot of fast and extremely expensive cars, driven by a diverse crew with all kinds of different traits, with Vin Diesel being the main protagonist. The first movie still tried to be somewhat serious, but while the series continued, the stories became more ludicrous and the action scenes more and more unrealistic, which is what I like about the movies: They are just dumb and fun entertainment.
Different composers have written the music for these movies, which are BT, Tyler Bates, Lucas Vidal, and David Arnold, but the music for most of them has been composed by Brian Tyler and that includes the score for the latest movie in the franchise: F9. During my The Fast and Furious binge session, I did pay attention to the music as I always do, and I came to the conclusion that music does not play a big part in these movies. There is so much going on, with all these ludicrous stunts with fast cars that the music is just in the background to add to the atmosphere. There is one exception, though, and that is the magnificent theme for Fast 5 by Brian Tyler. This theme is a fast-paced orchestral piece with a rhythmic melody performed by the whole orchestra, together with some fantastic drums as only Tyler can pull off.
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