“Fast Five” is the fifth entry in “The Fast and the Furious” franchise and this one helped boost the franchise to new levels of popularity. To me, I just thought it was more of the same with choppy editing on the action sequences and boring characters.

In “Fast Five”, Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel “xXx”, “Pitch Black”) and his crew are in Rio de Janeiro. They have picked a fight with a dangerous Brazilian crime boss while a ruthless federal agent (Dwayne Johnson “The Scorpion King”) pursues them. It all leads to a daring heist with a massive vault being dragged across the city’s sun-soaked streets by fast cars.

I didn’t care for Vin Diesel or Paul Walker (“Running Scared”) in the previous instalments and I certainly don’t care for them here. Other performers from the different entries include Tyrese Gibson (“Death Race”), Gal Gadot (“Wonder Woman”) and Sung Kang (“Bullet To The Head”) also appear. Dwayne Johnson is mildly entertaining as Hobbs. These films all have themes of friendship and loyalty but there is just no chemistry between any of the characters. There’s certainly no romantic chemistry so it’s just unbelievable when we see Kang’s Han go off with Gadot’s Gisele. I know that acting is less important in a big action movie but some of the performances here are painful to watch.

I won’t deny that some of the car chases and other action sequences are entertaining and there are also some great shots of Brazil. However, I just found the rest of the movie very dull. I cannot get invested in the characters and I don’t care about the plot. Yes, the most important thing in an action movie is the action but even that has its problems. The editing is so fast that it’s hard to know what’s even going on most of the time. If you like fast cars and the previous movies then I’m sure you’ll love it; it’s just not my thing.