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What I liked: Cars are pretty useful and I like to learn about them. Every time I see a fast and furious movie I learn many new things about cars that I never knew before. For example, I learned that you can mount a fighter jet engine that shoots blue flames on that back of you car remote controlled. I learned that if you drive really really fast through a mine field the mines will just blow up the car behind you and that mines have very large visible red buttons so you know if your car is about to fall on one. I learned that you can take your car bungee jumping and that if you drive at full speed off a cliff a passing jet can pick you and your car up without changing its flight trajectory. I learned that you can drive a giant electromagnet with no negative functional consequences from driving an electromagnet. I learned that there must be a specialized car rental place that carries bullet proof sports cars and tanks so that you can have the same car on multiple continents without the logistical headache of actually moving it and you can have the same car ready to drive a few hours after blowing it up. I also learned new things that in a give situation would not be my first choice: like bringing a ladle to a gun fight or using a car to intercept a space shuttle in orbit or riding a motorcycle through a machine gun fight or wearing army surplus scuba dry suits with duct tape as space suits.  

What I didn't: I feel like professional drivers would be less confused about the reversal of everything when driving in the UK. especially if they are, in fact, British. I found the magnet confusing not because usually there are some things in a car that could be attracted to a magnet powerful enough to pull another car from a parallel street through a building to stick it to the side of your car. And not because there was no obvious power source for this electromagnet. But because I never knew when they turned on the magnet what would be affected or how it would be affected. Sometimes the magnet pulled the bad guy's cars (not the surrounding not bad guy cars) directly into the hero car. Sometimes it pulled all the spare change and cell phones and mailboxes into the hero car. Some times it pull not bad guy cars into bad guy cars or small objects into bad guy cars. But it never pulled both big and small things and there seemed no way of knowing if the stuffed pulled would hit the good guys car or the bad guys car. This seems like a thing that I would like to know before I turned on the magnet. I also am curious about the mechanics of driving up rope bridge that has been cut loose on one side. I imagine that having a free end would make it so the bridge was not a good source of friction for the car making it hard for the car to drive, but some calculations should probably be done. There was a lot of talking in this movie. In a 2.5 hour movie more than half of it didn't involve fights or explosions. This seems like a waste when honestly everyone is watching this movie for the cool car explosions and the plot is an afterthought. 

Who should watch this? People who like cars and explosions. NASA. 

Would I watch it again? No, too much talking. 

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