Fast & Furious X on TF1: a deluge of completely tailored action (review)

Vin Diesel calls everyone back on board, extols the merits of family, before taking on a hairy and histrionic villain played by Jason Momoa. Fast or good?

While filming of the last part of the saga should begin at the end of the year, TF1 is broadcasting Fast X in the clear for the first time, this Sunday evening. Our review:

Tristan Bernard – who loved tuning – recounts in Les Veillées du chauffeur one of his many breakdowns: “finally a terrible tremor shook the car: it seemed as if an enormous giant was chattering its teeth”. You have to wait almost twenty minutes before an enormous giant swings its jaw into Fast X. When the film begins, Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) is taking it easy. He hosts family lunches in his LA backyard, gives his son safe driving lessons, customizes his cars and coos with Letty (Michelle Rodriguez). The hero’s rest in short.

During these first twenty minutes, freestyle, we take the opportunity to release two or three rudimentary speeches in a Catholic-Latino-customized style (family, God, cars, but above all family). Dom recalls the basics of his tribal lifestyle (tuning and barbecue) and we expose his weak points (moist eyes, sad smile, bald head, the best dialogue: “little Brian told me, ‘dad, you’re not afraid of anything’. But yes, I’m afraid too. I’m afraid of losing those I love. A son, a wife”).

Sitting in the room, at the end of the 10th episode – sorry, the 10th episode – the spectator, stunned, always comes back to the same questions. Completely stupid driving enthusiasts, nine films without head or tail, and this mystery: apart from loyalty and a touch of masochism, what pushes us, despite the saturation effect, despite the previous episodes, to rush to the cinemas to see the new episode of Crazy Driving?