Fast X Reviews
While Fast X still delivers on propulsive stunts and fan service, as the 10th instalment and with the promise (or is that a threat?) of at least two more, it’s starting to run out of road.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 16, 2023
The best thing about this movie is Jason Momoa. He just said "You know what, guys? I'm going to pull the top off this one and let it rip."
| Jun 6, 2023
Fast X continues the franchise’s mission to scale bigger and campier heights, and there are moments that will have you full-volume hooting and hollering in your seat, but it’s undone by the gravest sin of this cinematic universe: it breaks up the family.
| Jun 3, 2023
It's been a long time on the road but Jason Momoa's maniac villain gives the franchise a jolt.
| Jun 1, 2023
It’s overlong and over-the-top, but the real trouble is that when a series like this starts acknowledging its its own absurdities, they become harder to enjoy.
| Original Score: 1/5 | May 25, 2023
If action/adventure fans are willing to throw logic out the window, they’ll like what they see.
| Original Score: 3/4 | May 24, 2023
Leterrier's achievement in assembling such a gargantuan, multi-stranded, globe-trotting, head-spinning blockbuster is impressive, but however many gruff sermons Dom makes about his family, it's impossible to care about any of it.
| Original Score: 3/5 | May 24, 2023
This is what summer movies should be! It's spectacular! It's thrilling! And it's the kind of movie you can't wait to yammer about to your friends. Truly, I walked out of Fast X with a big Momoa smile on my face, so wide it hurt.
| May 22, 2023
The franchise hasn’t quite yet run out of ways to combine cars, guns, planes, and explosions… but perhaps it’s good that there are maybe only two films left until the franchise officially “ends.”
| Original Score: B- | May 19, 2023
It would be OK if Fast X were merely loud and dumb; that much is to be expected. The problem is that it’s also achingly mechanical. It’s all car, no driver.
| May 19, 2023
A decent diversion, though watching it feels like sustaining a head injury.
| May 19, 2023
Fast X is the most absurd entry yet in the long-running franchise, and that’s saying something, considering the crew journeyed into outer space in the previous installment.
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 19, 2023
Only glints of the old whiplash magic remain in chapter 10 as thrills give way to thudding formula and paycheck acting—not you Jason Momoa—that slow down the action to forge the runt of the F&F litter.
| May 19, 2023
“Fast X” is watchable, and its car chases are often exciting, but it’s not as satisfying as the best F&F movies.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 19, 2023
[Momoa] seems to have modeled his bright, sing-songy delivery on Bill Murray's brilliant work in "Little Shop of Horrors," and darned if he isn't almost as funny.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 19, 2023
Creatively speaking, the fuel gauge is pointing to E and the engines are sputtering.
| May 18, 2023
Diesel no longer seems quite human enough to be vulnerable, with his bald dome polished to an ageless sheen and his life-coach mottos delivered in a gruff near-whisper. Still, there are moments that show that despite everything he remains an actor.
| Original Score: 3/5 | May 18, 2023
Momoa was drawn to the role because it let him tone down his masculinity. But the latest instalment in the Fast & Furious franchise is a let-down.
| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 18, 2023
Seeing what outrageous outfit he’ll wear next is the movie’s greatest pleasure. Otherwise it’s just an eye-wateringly expensive exercise in wheel-spinning. Let’s hope part 2 fully kicks the fun into gear.
| Original Score: 3/5 | May 18, 2023
These movies used to know what about them was ridiculous. They’d give that to us until our hearts broke the speed limit. But I’ve already seen Diesel drive at a 90-degree angle before. The old bravado currently reeks of formula. The nerve is shot.
| May 18, 2023