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REEL TALK: ‘F9’ an unecessary addition to ‘Fast’ franchise | Arts & Entertainment

“F9: The Fast Saga” … we will just call “F9” for the sake of time, as this two-hour-and-25-minute film already has stolen enough of my time. The story, if you can call it that, continues to follow the globetrotting characters of the “Fast and Furious” crew as they find themselves sucked into another “mission” by Mr. Nobody (Kurt Russell).

If you’ve seen one “Fast and Furious” film, you’ve seen them all; at least the ones that don’t have the supercharger persona of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in them. His absence has powered down all of the subsequent films leaving the saga idling in neutral. (Yes, the car analogies will continue during this review.)

There are eight previous films and even an off-shoot (“Hobbs & Shaw”), there’s no need to see them all before you find there is absolutely nothing else to do, and the only…

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