fast five

i've never been a huge fan of the 'fast and furious' movies, in fact i have only seen the first two, and those only because i have friends who are in to cars.  this one though, has the rock in it, and he's always cool!  not having seen the last two, i may have been a bit behind as far as it goes with story, but this film does a pretty good job of filling me in with what has been going on since last i saw (though i have no idea why paul walker is a bad guy now.  wasnt he a cop in the first two?), reviewing the relationships between the characters as well as the death of another.  the story follows the gang as they try to take money from a crooked bad guy in rio.  the story isnt fleshed out much, but this is a car movie, so the plot really isnt the point, is it?  the key here is the action- and there is a ton of it!  we see cars racing, cars jumping, cars turning, cars crashing, cars doing just about anything they could think of that would be both fast and furious.  though i would not really consider myself a big car guy, i must admit i rather liked this film!  perhaps it was the 'oceans eleven' sense of getting together all the greatest characters from previous entries in order to do a big heist, or maybe it was the tight editing and absurdly illogical action, or maybe it was just the fact that the rock is awesome.  i dont know exactly why, but this movie was a ton of fun to watch!  it was kind of funny to see two big muscly bald guys fight it out in the same movie, with the rock and vin diesel being basically the same thing.  good thinking having the rock grow a goatee for this one, otherwise there would be no way to tell them apart!  i must say, if the third or fourth one are nearly as fun as this one, maybe i should go back and check them out.