Fast Five.

Deprivation of things you like can lead to ugly things.
Like here: not having been to the cinema for a while and having missed Hannah (which I really wanted to see) in the meantime, I just decided to see anything.

Fast Five seemed dumb enough and my fear of feeling dirty after watching was overcome by the fact that Bad Boys 2 is a movie I enjoy to watch from time to time. How worse could it be? But I can't say I wasn't slightly worried, as my image of the Fast & Furious franchise is that of automatically generated script and average action.

Not having seen any of the previous entries, I was also worried I might not get all the subtleties of the relationships between the various charaters. Just kidding.

Well I have to say I was VERY pleasantly surprised.
So of course, the script doesn't make any sense. If you look into it, it's a heist movie where they recruit a team of specialists, work out a plan and then do something completely different (not using the people for the skills they have).
But, really who cares?

Because the action IS cool. It's varied, well done and completely (and I mean completely) over the top. So I guess you have to have the right frame of mind. As far as I'm concerned, I was won over by the introductory scene where they make a bus trip over a car...
But yeah each set piece is better than the previous one, it's well shot (ie you know what's going on) and you can feel they made an effort to do something somewhat innovative with some cool concepts (even if it doesn't make sense, which again doesn't matter, as long as it's cool).

I haven't mentionned the actors. Well what can I say?
The girls are sexy and there's that chick from Chuck!
And there's Vin. Vin is awesome. He owns The Rock, he makes bungie jumps without the elastic, he gets girls with 2 stares and 3 words and he destroys LOADS of cars. Vin rocks.

So yeah as far as dumb actionners go (of the likes of Bad Boys 2, The Expendable), it's an entry well worth watching. If you're ready to let your IQ (and your audition) drop for a while (I think I've recovered now).