There's a lot of talk at the outset, just in case you needed a refresher on where things stand. (Previously on The Fast and the Furious: the team lost one of their own to the brother of the guy they put away. Letty has amnesia and cannot recall her life with Dominic. Brian decides to settle down to family life with Mia.) So you may have to content yourself with counting cliches. "You can't escape the past." "You're the best thing that ever happened to him." "You do whatever it is you gotta do." "I couldn't live with myself." (The sentiment here is nakeder than the nameless hotties.) But there is one hint of the cartoon physics to come: a knock-down fight between Jason Statham and Dwayne Johnson. That will have to hold you until Kurt Russell shows up and starts talking about, you guessed it, a hacker with a dangerous program that everybody wants, and the evil terrorist who needs to be stopped. Let the high-end demolition derby begin. But what transpires is grimmer than what's come before, and without the sense of fun, the absurdity of the action becomes less enjoyable. Exhausting, even. — Matthew Lickona