With the release of Fast Five, the Fast & Furious series solidified itself as a franchise completely insulated in its own weird world governed by its own laws, rules and culture. … Characters had always been thimble deep and the series equally ogled cars and the sorta-clothed, perpetually shiny women who hung on them. But there was something about turning a series that wasn't about anything into a heist movie that made it oddly compelling, not to mention fun. …

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'Fast & Furious 6′ is big, dumb fun – Scene-Stealers