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Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster are back to reprise their role in the fourth and probably the best Fast & Furious movie to date. Even Han from Tokyo Drift made a cameo. If ever Vin Diesel is planning to do another one, the story must be deeper, the action more intense and the cars much faster than Fast & Furious 4. Right from the first truck-jacking scene, the audience was made to experience action packed sequences not scene from the previous F&F movies.

The fourth Fast & Furious installment featured car chases but the cars are not the stars of the movie, unlike the first three F&F. I was hoping to see more cars and street races. This is the only disappointment I had with this movie.

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I enjoyed Babylon A.D. from the beginning up to its 88th minute. Then it was downhill from there. Vin Diesel plays Toorop, a hardened mercenary who was tasked to deliver Aurora (Melanie Thierry) from an isolated convent in Russia to New York. Accompanying them is Aurora’s guardian Sister Rebeka (Michelle Yeoh). Right from the time Aurora was first shown on screen, she exudes a mysterious aura and you know right away that she’s special.

Being a Vin Diesel movie, I was expecting good action sequences and I was not disappointed with what I saw.

The sequences were fast and looked like it was made for the ADHD generation. There was even Parkour. To top it off, we saw Michelle Yeoh fight in this one, unlike in the Children of Huang Shi where she was relegated to a passive role.

For 80+ minutes we were treated with action scenes after another and then boom! All was calm. The movie had the potentials to be an epic Sci-fi but the ending ruined it. There were lots of questions left unanswered. Judging from the ending, I’d say most of it was left in the cutting room. I’m waiting for the original director’s cut of this movie.

In the beginning of the movie, Toorop made this intro statement:

Save the planet. Whenever I’ve read that bumper sticker I’ve had to laugh. Save the planet. What for? And from what? From ourselves? Life’s simple: kill or be killed, don’t get involved and always finish the job. A survivor’s code, my code, and it all sounds great until the day you find yourself confronted by a choice. A choice to make a difference, to help someone, or to walk away and save yourself. I learned something that day: you can’t always walk away. Too bad it was the day I died.

Yeah, too bad the movie died with him.

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