Fast Five

Theatrical Release Date: 2011 04 29 (USA - IMAX) / 2011 04 29 (USA)

UPC: 025192107191

Studio: Universal Studios

MPAA Rating: PG13   Contains:null

Summary: Director Justin Lin (The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious) returns to the helm for this adrenaline-charged sequel reuniting series stars Vin Diesel and Paul Walker for their biggest thrill ride yet. With the police in hot pursuit and wanted fugitive Dom (Diesel) in tow, Brian (Walker) and Mia (Jordana Brewster) make their way to Rio, and realize they've run out of luck. In order to earn their freedom, they'll have to pull off their biggest job yet. After assembling a crack team of the top racers in Brazil, the gang prepares to confront the crooked businessman who seeks to silence them forever. Meanwhile, unstoppable federal agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) has assembled his own team, an intimidating group of top cops whose sole mission is to capture Dom, Brian, and Mia by whatever means possible. But as the race heats up, Hobbs loses his ability to tell the good guys from the bad guys. Now, in order to prevent the lawless trio from being turned into roadkill before he can arrest them, Luke puts his pedal to the metal, and begins to rely more on his killer instinct than his police training. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Category: Action

Awards: Best Action Movie – Broadcast Film Critics Association

Features: Blu-ray:
The Big Train Heist
Reuniting the Team
A New Set of Wheels
Dom Vs. Hobbs
Tyrese TV
Inside the Vault Chase
On Set with director Justin Lin
DVD:
Deleted scenes
Gag reel
Dom's Journey
Brian O'Conner: From Fed to Con
Enter Federal Abent Hobbs
Feature commentary with director Justin Lin

Fast Five

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 10/04/2011

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Cinemascope

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo, DHMA null

Runtime: 132 Minutes

Sides: 2

Number of Discs: 2

Language(s) English,Spanish,French

Subtitles: French,Spanish

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Fast Five
1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 5
6. Chapter 6
7. Chapter 7
8. Chapter 8
9. Chapter 9
10. Chapter 10
11. Chapter 11
12. Chapter 12
13. Chapter 13
14. Chapter 14
15. Chapter 15
16. Chapter 16
17. Chapter 17
18. Chapter 18
19. Chapter 19
20. Chapter 20

Mark Deming

There's a scene midway through Fast Five where Dom Toretto, played by Vin Diesel, and Brian O'Conner, played by Paul Walker, need a fast car and they need one now, so they go to the side of town where the street racers hang out and challenge a guy to a drag. Dom and Brian win -- but director Justin Lin doesn't even bother to show us the race. Five films into the Fast and the Furious series, the producers apparently remember that the first movie had something to do with street racing, but ten years later that's not the point anymore. Fast Five isn't about racing, but about guys chasing one another, folks shooting guns left and right, and action scenes that are cut so fast and frantic it doesn't even matter who is beating up who anymore. From the start, this has been a string of movies made for adrenaline junkies, but Fast Five doesn't offer much of a buzz -- it's just a maintenance dose that will keep you from crashing out without offering much thrill. Fast Five picks up literally where 2009's Fast and Furious left off -- Dom has been sentenced to 25 years in prison, and Brian and Mia (Jordana Brewster), Dom's sister and Brian's sweetheart, lead a daring raid to free him from the bus taking him to lockup. The three eventually meet up in Rio de Janeiro, through they steer clear of the glamorous side of the city known to tourists and stay in a slum neighborhood with their old friend Vince (Matt Schulze). Vince adds Dom, Brian and Mia to his crew for an ambitious robbery to steal three high-end sports cars from a moving train, but it turns out the cars are hotter than they expected -- one of them belongs to Reyes (Joaquim de Almeida), a powerful and ruthless drug dealer, and it contains a computer chip with incriminating information on his operation and where he stashes his money. The car was being impounded by the American DEA, and the theft attracts the attention of Reyes and his crew as well as a band of American agents led by Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson), who isn't about to let three American fugitives get away. With few friends on either side of the law, Dom and Brian think it's time to get out of the game, especially when they learn Mia is pregnant, so they decide to stage a heist that will set them up for life, robbing Reyes of $110 million in cash. It's far too big a job for three people, so they assemble a crew of trusted friends (who also appeared in other movies in the F&F series) -- fast talking driver and con-man Roman (Tyrese Gibson), no-nonsense mechanic and safecracker Tej (Chris "Ludacris" Bridges), cool and unflappable Han (Sung Kang), argumentative mechanics Tego (Tego Calderon) and Rico (Don Omar) and sexy but stealthy Gisele (Gal Gadot). Of course, the crew is followed closely by Hobbs and his team, who has been joined by Elena (Elsa Pataky), a beautiful Rio police officer bent on revenge after Reyes's men killed her husband. And a plan to get all the cash moved to a central location adds an unexpected challenge -- the money is moved to Rio's largest police station, where the cops are on the drug lord's payroll. An awful lot happens in Fast Five, but for all the plot twists that spin around the "one last heist" framework, none of them feel as important as simply keeping the characters on the run, either on wheels or on foot, and dodging fists and/or bullets. Most of the action scenes in Fast Five repeatedly defy the laws of physics or logic, and the crew on Mythbusters could probably spend an entire season testing the dozens of improbable situations thrown at these street racers turned master criminals (and who knew that driving fast could teach you so much?). By the time these folks are stealing cars from a moving train, you've either chosen to suspend all disbelief and strap in for the ride or been reduced to grumbling to yourself for the next two hours, and the former would be a whole lot easier if screenwriter Chris Morgan had given these characters better dialogue and motivation (not to mention a more streamlined narrative) and director Justin Lin knew how to draw better performances from his cast. Vin Diesel still has only one trick in his dramatic arsenal, and he sure hasn't gotten any better at playing it, while Paul Walker and Jordana Brewster simply look and act too clean cut and well meaning to fit in with this motley crew of low-rent super-criminals. Chris Bridges and Tyrese Gibson play well off one another as friendly rivals and Gal Gadot is excellent at looking beautiful and mysterious, but their roles are strictly one-dimensional and for all their obvious effort they can only do so much. Easily the best performance comes from Dwayne Johnson, who seems to be making a career out of rising above second-rate material; he kicks serious butt in the action scenes, takes no jive as the toughest cop on Earth, and he allows a flash of wit to remind us to smell what the Rock is cooking. Someone really needs to cast Johnson in the lead of a good movie for a change. And while director Lin has stuffed ten pounds of visual flash into a five pound bag (even the subtitles are meant to look cool as they zip on and off screen), all the sweeping helicopter shots and GCI-enhanced chase sequences can't obscure the fact this story takes a long time to get where it's going and most of the action sequences could be trimmed in half without blunting their impact. And if you stick around for the final credits, you'll be treated to a wildly unsubtle setup for the sixth movie in the Fast and Furious series. Despite its title, this series seems to be taking its own sweet time to finally cross the finish line, and at this rate it won't be a moment too soon. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Justin Lin  Director 
Justin Lin  Executive Producer 
Michael Fottrell  Producer 
Vin Diesel  Producer 
Neal H. Moritz  Producer 
Brian Tyler  Composer (Music Score) 
Chris Morgan  Screenwriter 
Amanda Lewis  Executive Producer 
Samantha Vincent  Executive Producer 
Vin Diesel  Actor 
Paul Walker  Actor 
Jordana Brewster  Actor 
Dwayne Johnson  Actor 
Tyrese Gibson  Actor 
Chris "Ludacris" Bridges  Actor 
Matt Schulze  Actor 
Kang Sung  Actor 
Gal Gadot  Actor 
Tego Calderón  Actor 
Don Omar  Actor 
Joaquim de Almeida  Actor 
Elsa Pataky  Actor 
Michael Irby  Actor 
Fernando Chien  Actor 
Alimi Ballard  Actor 
Yorgo Constantine  Actor 
Geoff Meed  Actor 
Joseph Melendez  Actor 
Jeirmarie Osorio  Actor 
Mark Hicks  Actor 
Esteban Cueto  Actor 
Corey Michael Eubanks  Actor 
Luis Da Silva, Jr.  Actor 
Luis Gonzaga  Actor 
Carlos Sanchez  Actor 
Ben Blankenship  Actor 
Pedro U. Garcia  Actor 
Arturo Gaskins  Actor 
Jay Jackson  Actor 
Arlene Santana  Actor 
Kent Shocknek  Actor 
Sharon Tay  Actor 
Andy Rosa Adler  Actor 

Country: USA