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Avg. Critic Score: 67 out of 100 Generally favorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
14 Iffy for 14+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 83
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    High-octane trash, but you will go "Ohhhhhh!" Read full review

  • 80
    Boxoffice Magazine | Pete Hammond

    Features some of the most exhilarating action sequences the screen has seen in years. Read full review

  • 80
    The Hollywood Reporter |

    Big crashes, lithe women and roiling testosterone, not to mention the addition of The Rock as a fire-and-brimstone federal agent ? there's plenty to pull in the (mostly) young male audience. Read full review

  • 80
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    In a free-for-all like this, where the laws of gravity and dictates of narrative logic are left to eat dust, it doesn't matter when anything takes place or why. Read full review

  • 75
    Philadelphia Inquirer | Steven Rea

    Blissfully, brainlessly satisfying. Read full review

  • 75
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    As is par for the course in a "Fast and Furious'' movie, the only persuasive physical intimacy is between the men. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    What it all comes down to is a skillfully assembled 130 minutes at the movies, with actors capable of doing absurd things with straight faces, and action sequences that toy idly with the laws of physics. Read full review

  • 75
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Inventive action sequences, deft stunt work and breathtaking cinematography make for revved-up fun. Read full review

  • 75
    Movieline | Stephanie Zacharek

    It's either genius or madness to put Diesel and Johnson in the same movie, or the same scene. They're both enormously appealing performers. Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Betsy Sharkey

    The sheer audacity of Fast Five is kind of breathtaking in a metal-twisting, death-defying, mission-implausible, B-movie-on-steroids kind of way. Not complaining, just saying. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 14+ High-octane heist sequel is violent but exciting.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this is the fifth in a series of action movies that began with 2001's The Fast and the Furious. This one is more of a heist movie than a slam-bang racing movie, but it's still heavy on violence. Property is destroyed more frequently than people, though many minor characters are shot and killed (one bloodily), and there are some brutal fistfights. Language includes one "f--k" and several uses of "s--t." There's social drinking, kissing between a couple, and many scantily clad women on display and treated as sex objects.
  • Families can talk about the movie's violence. How did it affect you? Does it seem at all realistic? How does that change its impact?
  • How does the movie treat women? Do you think they're included because of who they are or how they look? What effect does this have on a female audience's body image? What effect does it have on a male audience?
  • What makes these characters sympathetic -- even heroic -- even though they steal and destroy things? Can you think of other movies where "bad guys" are the heroes?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: The main characters engage in illegal activities so they can earn enough money to disappear and live comfortably for the rest of their lives. They plan to steal from a Brazilian gangster, but that doesn't necessarily make their crime more acceptable. Although they work together and solve problems, they also create rampant destruction and violence with no consequences.
  • rolemodels true0 Positive role models: The characters may seem "cool," but they're lawbreakers and troublemakers. They don't act responsibly, and they leave a trail of violence without any consequences. On the plus side, they do value family, and they work together well.
What to watch for
  • violence false4 Violence: Lots of big, powerful guns are pulled, and many minor characters are shot and killed. Not too much blood is seen, though a supporting character dies of a bloody gunshot wound. Some brutal fistfights. Mostly, the movie focuses on rampant destruction, smashing up cars, buses, trains, bridges, buildings, and just about anything else that gets in the way.
  • sex false3 Sex: The main couple kisses often. Also lots of sexual innuendo and many shots of women wearing tight clothing (or very little clothing). Women are treated as sex objects in this movie.
  • language false3 Language: One "f--k" and several uses of "s--t." Other words include "goddamn," "ass," "prick," "a--hole," "hell," "damn," "goddamn," and "son of a bitch."
  • consumerism false2 Consumerism: Plenty of fancy, fetishized cars are on display.
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false1 Drinking, drugs and smoking: The main characters drink beer on more than one occasion, but never to drunkenness.
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