Four years ago when I wrote my review of "Fast Five," I knew afterwards that I watched the best pure action movie of that year. With a little dose of Dwayne "Franchise Viagra" Johnson, I was also witnessing the peak resurgence of a series that looked marked for death in 2006 with the weak "Tokyo Drift" entry before being saved by the returning original cast members in 2009's "Fast and Furious." Then, the bigger picture hit me two years later in 2013 with "Fast and Furious 6." As mindlessly entertaining and over-the-top as this historic and lucrative run has been, these films engaged an audience that presented and united an ethnic diversity better than anything else Hollywood has ever...
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