Movie Review – Fast Five

Movie: Fast Five

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Former cop Brian O'Conner partners with ex-con Dom Toretto on the opposite side of the law. Since Brian and Mia Toretto broke Dom out of custody, they've blown across many borders to elude authorities. Now backed into a corner in Rio de Janeiro, they must pull one last job in order to gain their freedom. As they assemble their elite team of top racers, the unlikely allies know their only shot of getting out for good means confronting the corrupt businessman who wants them dead. But he's not the only one on their tail. Hard-nosed federal agent Luke Hobbs never misses his target. When he is assigned to track down Dom and Brian, he and his strike team launch an all-out assault to capture them. But as his men tear through Brazil, Hobbs learns he can't separate the good guys from the bad. Now, he must rely on his instincts to corner his prey... before someone else runs them down first

When Dominic "Dom" Toretto (Vin Diesel) is being transported to Lompoc prison by bus, his sister Mia Toretto (Jordana Brewster) and friend Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) lead an assault on the bus, causing it to crash, freeing Dom. While authorities search for them, the trio escape separately from Dom to Rio de Janeiro for a better life.

Awaiting Dom's arrival and short on cash, Mia and Brian join their friend Vince (Matt Schulze) and other participants on a job to steal three cars from a train. While aboard the train, Brian and Mia discover the train is carrying DEA agents and that the cars are seized property. When Dom arrives with the rest of the participants, he realizes that one of them, Zizi (Michael Irby), is only interested in stealing one car a Ford GT40. Dom has Mia steal the car herself while Dom and Brian fight Zizi and his henchmen. The DEA agenst realizing they are being robbed rush to the back of the train only to be killed by Zizi. Dom and Brian narrowly escape death on the train and are captured by the local crime lord and owner of the cars and Zizi’s boss Hernan Reyes (Joaquim de Almeida). He orders the pair be interrogated to discover the location of the car and again they escape and retreat to their safehouse.

While Brian, Dom, and Mia examine the car by taking it appart to discover its importance, Vince arrives and is caught trying to remove a computer chip from the car. He admits that he was planning to sell it to Reyes on his own and is forced to leave empty handed. Dom and Brian investigate the chip and discover it contains details of Reyes' criminal empire including the locations of $100 million in cash.

Following the murder of the DEA agents aboard the train which was blamed on Dom and his team, U.S. Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and his team arrive in Rio to capture Dom and Brian. They travel to Dom's safehouse with assistance from local officer Elena Neves (Elsa Pataky), but find it under assault by Reyes' men. Brian, Dom and Mia escape with Dom suggesting they split up and leave Rio, but Mia announces she is pregnant with Brian's child. Dom agrees to stick together and suggests they steal Reyes' money to start a new life.

The trio organizes a team to perform the heist, recruiting Han Lue (Sung Kang), Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson), Tej Parker (Ludacris), Gisele Yashar (Gal Gadot), Tego Leo (Tego Calderón) and Rico Santos (Don Omar). Vince later joins the team after saving Mia from being captured by Reyes' men, earning Dom's trust once more.

While they plan their attack they inadvertently complicate things. Thinking that scaring Kerman Reyes he would pool all his money in a single place and make it easier to steal they found that he instead uses police headquarters as his personal vault. Back at the safe house they prep their attach practicing and hunting for cars quick enough to evade the cameras.  Hoping to keep Hobbs out of their way they attach a tracking device on his truck to keep tabs on him.

In an elaborate trick Hobbs and his team eventually find and arrest Dom, Mia, Brian and Vince moments before they leave to attack their target.

While transporting them to the airport for extradition to the United States, the convoy is attacked by Reyes' men, killing Hobbs' team and Vince. Hobbs is saved by Dom, Brian and Mia as they fight back against Reyes' men and escape. Wanting revenge for his murdered team, Hobbs and Elena agree to help with the heist. The gang breaks into the police station where Reyes' money is kept and tear the vault from the building using their cars. They drag it through the city with police in pursuit. Believing they cannot outrun the police, Dom makes Brian continue without him while he attacks the police and the pursuing Reyes, using the vault attached to his car to smash their vehicles. Brian returns to kill Zizi, while Reyes is badly injured by Dom's assault. Hobbs arrives on the scene and executes Reyes as revenge.

Hobbs refuses to let the pair go free, but unwilling to arrest them, agrees to give them a 24-hour head start to escape but they have to leave the vault behind.

After the duo leave Hobbs realizes that they has swapped the vault at some point and are no gone with $100 Million dollars. The gang split Reyes' money, with Dom leaving Vince's share to his family, before the members go their separate ways.

In the South Pacific, Brian and Mia, now visibly pregnant, relax on a beach, where they are met by Dom and Elena. Brian challenges Dom to a final, no-stakes race to prove who is the better driver.

In a post-credits scene, Hobbs is given a file by US Customs agent Monica Fuentes (Eva Mendes) concerning the hijack of a military convoy in Berlin. In the file, Hobbs discovers a recent photo of Letty Ortiz (Michelle Rodriguez), Dom's presumed-deceased girlfriend, implying that she survived the events of Fast & Furious.