Fast Five

Check your brain at the door.

From the opening, adrenalin-pumping prison bus escape to a heart-pounding car theft aboard a fast-moving train, Fast Five throws it down from the jump.

Each movie has two very good action scenes, usually at either end, but then about an hour and a half of the most asinine tough-guy nonsense between them.

Fast Five is grindingly mechanical -- and not just because of all the emphasis on car repairs and retooling.

There's arguably even more gun and car play than in F&F4, with the prolonged car chase finale easily chiming in as the best, most imaginative one in the franchise so far.

[Johnson's] skin looks as though it's been slathered in butter; his enjoyment is infectious and keeps the movie speeding along.

As far as action films go Fast & Furious 5 is a stunner. If you see it on the big screen be prepared to be blown away by a film that puts every dollar of its budget to great use.

These guys make robbing a mobster into a party game for criminal buddies who revel in the adrenaline rush of speed and psych-outs between the rubber and the road.

A fun, thrilling summer blockbuster that's also the franchise's best offering to date. [Full review in Spanish]

Easily the best this series has to offer. This is not to imply this is a good movie, merely the most entertaining in a succession of inexcusable trash.