F9 The Fast Saga

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

The film flexes the kind of self awareness to push the series into full blown parody, while still showing some mileage left.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When car mayhem and traveling to space become dull, you know you've made a wrong turn.

While not the best in the franchise, it truly might be the wildest. It’s entertaining, it’s stupid, but it’s got family. Family is the heart & soul here once again

F9 takes its ridiculously absurd action sequences to intolerably nonsensical levels, all while trying to tell an overlong, messy, unimaginative story surrounding one of the most generic cliches.

The action scenes fall flat - almost every single one of them - and the CGI looks like it was borrowed from Sharknado. The dialogues are painfully awkward, and the script should've been burned by the first person who read it.