{"id":29089,"date":"2022-03-07T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=29089"},"modified":"2022-03-06T22:55:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T03:55:49","slug":"f9-the-fast-saga-2021-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=29089","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;F9: The Fast Saga&#8221; (2021) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z030722zview_f9thefastsaga.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"792\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>F9: The Fast Saga<\/strong><\/em> (2021)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Justin Lin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Screenplay:\u00a0<strong> Daniel Casey,\u00a0 Justin Lin\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring:<strong> Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Ludicris, Charlize Theron, John Cena, Finn Cole, Sung Kang, Helen Mirren <\/strong>and<strong> Kurt Russell<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Tagline: <em>Fast Family Forever<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was a big fan of the first several <em>Fast and Furious<\/em> movies. Not so much with the last few.\u00a0 The problem is that in each new film the stakes get bigger and the stunts more outrageous.\u00a0 We are now at the point where the <em>Road Runner<\/em> cartoons have more logical storylines and respect for physics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With<em> F9: The Fast Saga<\/em>, whatever you need to happen will happen:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Drive a car over a suspension bridge that has one end cut loose? No problem, just shift gears and keep driving.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Drive a car over a chasm where a suspension bridge was just cut loose?\u00a0 No problem, hit the nitrous and a bridge cable will wrap around your axel and swing you to the other side.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Need an electromagnet that will pull cars through a building to wreck a truck chasing you?\u00a0 No problem, flip the switch.\u00a0 Need a gag where the electromagnet pulls of necklaces, rings and watches from pedestrians?\u00a0 No problem, flip the switch &#8211; the necklaces, rings and watches will come off and leave necks, fingers and wrists intact.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Attacked by truckloads of machinegun armed soldiers who fire hundreds of rounds?\u00a0 No problem, you won&#8217;t even get winged!\u00a0 And you&#8217;re able to use a pistol to take out soldiers with each shot.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chase a gun repelling across the city?\u00a0 No problem, drive the car crazy through traffic, stop and run to the roof of a building and jump out into space.\u00a0 No worries, you&#8217;ll crash into him knocking you both through a window where you can fight!\u00a0 He&#8217;ll miss a punch a knock out part of wall!\u00a0 Then he&#8217;ll pick you up and run with you through the house destroying doorways.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Your girlfriend in the midst of a motorcycle jump has her bike knocked from under her?\u00a0 No worry, you can drive your car so she lands on it!\u00a0 Much softer hitting the metal car at 100 miles an hour than the ground!<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Need to go to outer space with virtually no training or a space ship?\u00a0 No problem, strap a jet engine onto a small car and put on scuba gear.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Needless to say, these are just a few of the insane things that happen.\u00a0 I can suspend disbelief for a few items, but when a logical storyline goes out the window and there is no real concern that a character will be hurt, let alone killed, you&#8217;re going to lose me.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll watch, but with less interest than I have in a <em>Road Runner<\/em> cartoon,\u00a0 <em>F9: The Fast Saga<\/em> rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z030722zview_f9thefastsaga2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"322\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F9: The Fast Saga (2021) Director:\u00a0 Justin Lin Screenplay:\u00a0 Daniel Casey,\u00a0 Justin Lin\u00a0\u00a0 Starring: Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29092,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29089\/revisions\/29092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}