Get ready to see a lot less of the Christy tag here pretty soon. My cousin is moving and taking her collection of (mostly awful) movies with her. But don't fret, I'm sure we'll re-institute the monthly exchange after she gets settled. In the meantime, she recently upgraded her Fast & Furious collection to the collector's edition that includes movies 1-6 and gifted me with her previous copies of 1, 4 and 5. Yay(?) This one definitely picks up from the nosedive of Tokyo Drift by pretending the former hasn't happened yet.
Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) is a fugitive from justice, hiding out and pulling heists with his girlfriend, Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), and his friend, Han (Sung Kang), but he knows it's only a matter of time until his past catches up with him and everyone he loves. He decides to leave Letty and disappear so that she can start fresh. Of course that doesn't work and Letty is murdered. Dom returns to L.A. to find out who killed her and discovers that she had taken a deal with the FBI to act as an undercover informant on a drug cartel. Her handler was Dom's one-time friend turned rival Brian O'Connor (Paul Walker). Brian is still trying to get out of the shadow of suspicion from his fellow FBI agents over letting Dom go and can't afford to be involved with him any further, no matter that he still has feelings for the man's sister, Mia (Jordana Brewster). Meanwhile, both men try to infiltrate the cartel that killed Letty by engaging in ridiculous stunts with cars.
This was definitely a step in the right direction for this franchise. They brought back all the characters people actually cared about and developed their relationships, which is really what this series is about. It's not the cars or the action, it's seeing these characters come together and demonstrate that they are family. That is the glue holding these paper-thin plots from completely falling apart.
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