WHAT’S IT ABOUT
After the events of The Fate of the Furious (2017), Dominic Toretto and his family must face Dominic’s younger brother Jakob, a deadly assassin, who is working with their old enemy Cipher, and who holds a personal vendetta against Dominic.
MOVIESinMO REVIEW
So now they call it a saga. Why? Because you need to see the others to completely understand all the crazy stuff that has and will continue to happen in this series. F9 is loaded with call-backs. The only “original” part of this movie was the telling of Dom’s past. You get to see his father as a racer while a very young Dom and brother Jakob help in the pit. This is how the film opens, and that’s fine, but flashbacks like this were throughout the film. There might have been a third of this movie dedicated to telling Dominic Toretto’s life story. As far as I know, this is the first film in the franchise to focus on one character’s entire life story. On one hand, it made this edition better than the others because it honestly had a story worth exploring. On the other hand, that’s not the point or purpose of this franchise. Once you’ve seen the first two films, that’s all the story you need. Everything else is “We need to get it back, and time is running out.” Then for the next hour, a bunch of muscle cars speeds through various terrains across the globe doing impossible things in vehicles – It’s senseless fun. In F9, they actually tried to give it a good story, and for the first twenty minutes, it was a decent storyline. Problems arose when Dom’s backstory was blended with the usual Fast and the Furious current story. From that point on, it was a mess. I couldn’t enjoy the car chases because there had to be a flashback or Dom and his brother had to talk about the past or something unrelated to the current pursuit. Luckily, there were enough crazy chases, fights, and family moments (of course) to make F9 one of the best in the series.
OUR RATING – A ROGUE 7
MEDIA
- Genre – Action
- Street date
- Digital – September 7th, 2021
- DVD/Blu-Ray September 21st, 2021
- Video – 1080p
- Screen size – 2.39:1
- Sound – English Dolby Atmos, English Dolby TrueHD 7.1, French Dolby Digital Plus 7.1, Spanish Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
- Subtitles – English SDH, Spanish, French
Extras
- GAG REEL
- F9: ALL IN: The Fast family invites you to be part of the crew as they give you an intimate look at how F9 propels this epic franchise to even greater heights. This bonus feature, with more than 46 minutes of content, includes returning characters, new cast members, huge stunts, big surprises, and so much more.
- PRACTICALLY FAST: When it comes to stunts, it seems each film in The Fast Saga outdoes the last. In this piece, we examine how Justin Lin and his team go to great lengths to shoot as many stunts as they can in-camera and practically, giving the film an authenticity that cannot be achieved solely through visual effects or CGI.
- SHIFTING PRIORITIES: We first met many of these characters when The Fast and the Furious was released in 2001. In the 20+ years since, not only have the characters themselves grown and evolved, but so have the actors that portray them. Art often imitates life, and we look at how that’s particularly true in F9.
- JUSTICE FOR HAN: Han is back! Sung Kang and Justin Lin discuss the genesis for the return of this beloved character, while the cast reveals how much it means to them to have Kang back along for the ride.
- A DAY ON SET WITH JUSTIN LIN: The job of a director on any movie production is huge. The job of a director on a production the scale of F9 is immeasurable. Spend a day with Justin Lin and see just how demanding it is to navigate a production day when you’re the one with all the answers.
- JOHN CENA: SUPERCAR SUPERFAN: John Cena is a real-life car expert, and no franchise does cars like Fast. Watch John jump from exotic car to exotic car like a kid in a candy store, giving you a true fan’s look at some of the rarest and most expensive automobiles in the world.
- FEATURE COMMENTARY (THEATRICAL AND DIRECTOR’S CUT) WITH PRODUCER/CO-WRITER/DIRECTOR JUSTIN LIN