At its very best, there's something positively life-affirming about F9, the fifth Fast & Furious movie directed by Justin Lin.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 21, 2021

Man, it's fun! Partly that's because the action set pieces, if not quite up to Mission Impossible or MC Universe standards, really are choreographed with flair.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 1, 2021

The action is either funny or dull. It's never gripping or genuinely exciting. So to give it heft, they keep going back to the once thing Vin Diesel does...an extravagantly stupid collection of bits.

| Jun 30, 2021

This is a franchise where the cars matter as much as the people. The script, by the director and Daniel Casey, does not waste time on conversations.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 29, 2021

If you can stomach the macho melodrama, these movies are ridiculous big-screen ballets, with cars shooting out of skyscrapers and airplanes, that at their best are the right kind of stupid.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 28, 2021

They ask [Cena] to brood too much. They ask him to feel too much... he can't do it the way Vin Diesel has now figured out how to over the course of his career and these nine movies.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 28, 2021

The acting is of a soaring ineptitude; the deeper Diesel emotes, the more he resembles a man who dabbed too much wasabi on his tuna roll.

| Jun 28, 2021

Prior acquaintance with the eight previous instalments of this colossal action movie franchise isn't necessary for enjoyment of this one - the film's muscle cars and maximalist approach continue to serve it well.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 28, 2021

This is 2.5 hours and it is more soapy than ever... This feels not as fun or light.

| Jun 25, 2021

F9's over-the-top tomfoolery, including a random zinger about Roman and Tej (Ludacris) resembling Minions, is little more than an empty wink at the audience.

| Jun 25, 2021

F9 gets bogged down. Way, way down. It becomes a lot of movies at once. Some fly, some don't, but the sum effect is that it winds up spinning its wheels, its hyperkinetic delights awash in too many strands of background drama.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 25, 2021

Even allowing for the goofy nature of the franchise, the latest edition tries too hard to up the ante, which won't stop Universal from revving up "F:X" (or some equally clever title) as soon as possible.

| Jun 25, 2021

Does a so-called summer movie have to be brain-dead? I don't believe it. But then, I don't believe the preposterous goings-on inF9,part of what's now being calledThe Fast Saga. Incoherence reigns supreme

| Jun 25, 2021

It really isn't worth trying to keep up. Immerse yourself rather in the sillier stunts and the genuinely sparky interplay between committed action stars.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 25, 2021

It's a Fast and the Furious film but this time clunkier, minus much of the snappy gutter panache of 2001's original.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 25, 2021

The gigantic steroidal humungousness of the Fast and Furious franchise has finally rolled over me like a tank.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 25, 2021

As usual the plot is stupid beyond saving, but the vehicular action is insanely entertaining. That's a fair tradeoff for the adrenaline junkie in all of us who only wants Vroom cranked up to 11. Consider it done.

| Jun 25, 2021

The films are critic-proof, of course, and mockery-proof in the bargain. F9 makes a mockery of itself before anyone else can -- it's a gleefully shoddy goof on a pseudo-epic scale.

| Jun 25, 2021

In this ninth instalment, it's still delivering what audiences truly want: cars where cars absolutely should not be.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 24, 2021

The franchise is now showing signs of engine trouble.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 24, 2021