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After our long and arduous slog through the first four of what we now apparently are just calling the Fast franchise, finally we find ourselves at the point where the series went from the "why are they still making these movies" kind of baffling, to the "oh my god, I can't believe somebody made this movie" kind of baffling that we have come to love. Casting aside elements that once grounded the series -- realistic law enforcement tactics, arms that don't look like The Rock's arms, and gravity, to name three -- Fast Five steers hard into the most ridiculous elements of its past installments, bringing back discarded characters from already-forgotten past installments and making it clear that the barely-relevant events of Tokyo Drift have not yet occurred.

But what of Chris and James, who have been forced to watch four pretty terrible movies just to get this far? Are they completely NOS'd out? Or will this movie give them the burst they need to something something racing metaphor? There are still three Fast movies to go after this one, so let's all hope for the latter.