Fast Five

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Fast Five

FIFTH TIME'S A CHARM Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, and Vin Diesel in Fast Five
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FIFTH TIME'S A CHARM Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, and Vin Diesel in Fast Five
EW's GRADE
B

Details Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama; With: Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson and Paul Walker; Distributor: Universal Pictures

I'll be honest: I tuned out after 2006's ridiculous threequel The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. (Wow, a movie about skidding!) And frankly, the return of chrome-domed lug nut Vin Diesel in subsequent sequels didn't exactly sweeten the deal for me to come back. But the franchise's fifth chapter, Fast Five (2011, PG-13, 2 hrs., 11 mins.), is better than you'd expect thanks to Dwayne ''The Rock'' Johnson's straight-faced FBI agent. Still, the best reasons to catch up with the grease-monkey gang on DVD are the EXTRAS, which fetishize the flick's muscle cars and dissect some of its most insane and ill-advised stunts. It's like an episode of Top Gear directed by Michael Bay. B
Originally posted Sep 28, 2011 Published in issue #1175 Oct 07, 2011 Order article reprints
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Weekend of May 19 Box Office Source: Rentrak Corp.
Rank Title Weekend Gross* Weeks on Chart Cume. Gross* EW Grade
1. $70.6 1 $84.1 A
2.
Iron Man 3
Walt Disney Pictures
$35.2 3 $337.1 A-
3.
The Great Gatsby
Warner Bros.
$23.4 2 $90.2 B-
4.
Pain & Gain
Paramount
$3.1 4 $46.6 B
5.
The Croods
DreamWorks
$2.7 9 $176.7 C+
6.
42
Warner Bros.
$2.7 6 $88.7 B+
7.
Oblivion
Universal
$2.2 5 $85.5 C+
8.
Mud
Lionsgate
$2.2 4 $11.6 B+
9.
Peeples
Lionsgate
$2.1 2 $7.9 C+
10.
The Big Wedding
Lionsgate
$1.1 4 $20.2 B
* in millions