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‘Running ain’t freedom. You know that.’ – Dom As someone with limited knowledge and interested in the Fast and Furious , I didn’t think highly of the franchise. With eight films out and two more in the works, it’s not hard to assume that quality isn’t their focal point. However,  Fast Five appears to be one of the better instalments from the speed racing franchise. In this film we are introduced to Dwayne Johnson’s character Luke Hobbs as he tracks down Dominic Toretto’s street racing crew to Brazil in order to arrest them for their crimes in America. Initially we are led to believe that Hobbs is a character that takes pride in the team around him since he handpicks Elena Neves as his translator because he believes she can’t be bought. We could even call him well informed, but when Neves presents her own reasoned and accurate insight to help track down Toretto and his family, her input is literally thrown away. This is the first instance that reduced Johnson’s character t...

Without any star studded or known characters and an overload of fast unskilful driving, Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift is the directionless third part of the lucrative franchise. Due to getting into trouble with the police yet again Sean Boswell is sent to Tokyo to live with his father. Quickly, he gravitates towards the street racing scene in Japan and ends up on the wrong side of a notorious gang. After waiting for half an hour to see a familiar face, I gave up realising that Lucas Black’s unconvincing portrayal of a high school student was all I was going to get. Even Bow Wow’s funny and stereotypical character wasn’t enough for me to enjoy the film or take any interest in its protagonists. Street driving takes back the focus that was lost to crime fitting in 2 Fast 2 Furious but becomes uninteresting, once learning that Sean’s skillset only consists of accelerating and destroying vehicles. We then go on to see his journey to becoming a drifter, which  is primarily s...

Despite the joint second highest paid actor of 2019 being Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson, the question remains if WWE superstars can successfully change paths and become great actors. I originally was going to discuss the idea that Dwayne Johnson’s acting career has been inferior to that of his former WWE colleague Dave Bautista’s , who is appearing in more films as of late, as I have found some of Bautista’s performances in films such as Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) to be much more enjoyable than The Rock’s blockbuster films like Central Intelligence (2016) . However; although Bautista has vocalised his desire to be an actor as opposed to just a movie star, both men are stuck in the roles of the muscular and powerful characters that they were in the WWE. Dave Bautista in his role as Drax, from the  Marvel Universe Johnson and Bautista have upcoming summer releases, Hobbs & Shaw and My Spy respectively, which see them taking on roles of “badass” governmen...