F9: The Fast Saga
Universal Pictures | Release Date: June 25, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 54 Critic Reviews
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60
The Observer (UK)Simran HansJun 27, 2021
Prior acquaintance with the eight previous instalments of this colossal action movie franchise isn’t necessary for enjoyment of this one – the film’s muscle cars and maximalist approach continue to serve it well. Read full review
60
TimeStephanie ZacharekJun 25, 2021
Just as the dessert topping you scoop out of a tub may contain only trace amounts of actual cream, the ninth installment in the Fast & Furious franchise, F9: The Fast Saga, isn’t so much a movie as an entertainment product. There’s nothing wrong with that, as long you know what you’re getting, and there are even some pluses. Read full review
60
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeJun 25, 2021
It really isn’t worth trying to keep up. Immerse yourself rather in the sillier stunts and the genuinely sparky interplay between committed action stars: Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Jordana Brewster, Cardi B (!). Read full review
60
ABC NewsPeter TraversJun 25, 2021
As usual the plot is stupid beyond saving, but the vehicular action is insanely entertaining. That’s a fair tradeoff for the adrenaline junkie in all of us who only wants Vroom cranked up to 11. Consider it done. Read full review
60
Film ThreatAnthony Ray BenchJun 25, 2021
Fast 9: The Fast Saga is a stupid, stupid movie. It lacks the fun and humor of some of the better entries, and it also lacks in the character development department. Read full review
60
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternJun 24, 2021
F9 makes a mockery of itself before anyone else can—it’s a gleefully shoddy goof on a pseudo-epic scale. Read full review
60
The New York TimesA.O. ScottJun 24, 2021
The director Justin Lin, happily brandishing all the expensive digital tools at his disposal, makes “F9” feel scrappy and baroque at the same time. The identity of the brand rests on twin foundations of silliness and sincerity, both of which are honored here. Read full review
60
The TelegraphRobbie CollinJun 24, 2021
When the film gets up to speed it remains dependable fun, but the steering’s spongy, the acceleration sluggish. The journey continues, but the saga is running out of road. Read full review
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Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangJun 24, 2021
What Lin restores in this mostly solid entry (which he co-wrote with Daniel Casey, both stepping in for longtime series screenwriter Chris Morgan) is a sense of emotional continuity. Read full review
60
Vanity FairRichard LawsonJun 23, 2021
F9’s attempts at classical drama, all its reckoning with dynastic sin, do weigh the thing down quite a bit. Those going to the theater simply for the kicky, bad-joke, MacGuffin charms of F&F may find themselves a little bored and distracted, as I was, by all the turgidity. Read full review
60
Total FilmJordan FarleyJun 22, 2021
Justin Lin gets the series back on track with Fast and Furious 9 by delving into the past while racing into the future. See it on the biggest, loudest screen possible. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzJun 22, 2021
Is it a ridiculous movie? Of course, that’s the point. Yet it’s still kind of fun, and it all but insists that you enjoy watching it. Read full review
60
ScreenCrushMatt SingerJun 15, 2021
Even as it takes Fast and Furious to literal new heights (and marks a significant improvement from The Fate of the Furious), F9 never tops the franchise’s best entries. It’s simply too complicated and too long to surpass something like Fast Five. Read full review
60
EmpireJoshua RothkopfMay 25, 2021
Course-correcting to some degree with the return of its most inspired director, Justin Lin’s latest F&F instalment is a little too plastic at times, but back on track. Read full review
60
SlashfilmHoai-Tran BuiMay 25, 2021
After the empty soullessness of Fate of the Furious and the ribald nonsense of Hobbs and Shaw, F9 feels like Lin is pulling the franchise back on track. Whether that track is properly placed or not, or whether it’s actually a track that takes you off the deep end…well, your mileage may vary. Read full review
60
Screen DailyTim GriersonMay 18, 2021
Gloriously ludicrous and stridently melodramatic, F9 is fuelled by its own goofy energy, delivering comically grandiose chase sequences and shameless fan service all in the name of giving audiences an uncomplicated good time. Read full review
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The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerMay 25, 2021
The movie’s deference to Diesel’s whims, sincerity, and ego all at once is part of its charm—though perhaps a smaller share of it here than in the past. Read full review
58
IndieWireDavid EhrlichMay 18, 2021
This is a movie that sling-shots so far past self-parody that it loops all the way back to something real. Read full review
50
Rolling StoneK. Austin CollinsJun 28, 2021
It becomes a lot of movies at once. Some fly, some don’t, but the sum effect is that it winds up spinning its wheels, its hyperkinetic delights (all I’ll say is: magnets) awash in too many strands of background drama. Read full review
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ReelViewsJames BerardinelliJun 28, 2021
Are you weary of the high-octane, CGI-heavy action offered by the Fast and Furious series? If so, then it would be hard to find any reason to recommend the film. Read full review
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The New YorkerAnthony LaneJun 28, 2021
The acting is of a soaring ineptitude; the deeper Diesel emotes, the more he resembles a man who dabbed too much wasabi on his tuna roll. Read full review
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LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenJun 27, 2021
Director Justin Lin (making his fifth Fast film) nicely balances chaos and clarity in one early chase scene through the jungle, but later lets the visual bombast take over. Read full review
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CNNBrian LowryJun 24, 2021
After a year where people could pause and rewind to catch missed dialogue, this is one of those movies where missed lines don’t matter, and the only direction this vehicle goes is forward, even when it’s just spinning its wheels. Read full review
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Washington PostAnn HornadayJun 22, 2021
If F9’s repetitive stunts-and-speeches structure begins to pall, this is a movie that knows its lane and stays in it, however recklessly. Read full review
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Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJun 22, 2021
F9: The Fast Saga isn’t the worst entry in the long-running and popular Fast & Furious franchise, but it just might be the silliest and the loudest and the most ridiculous — and while that might well have been the filmmakers’ intention, it’s not a compliment. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovJun 22, 2021
It's overstuffed with all the actors wasting both the viewers’ and the movie’s running time by actually speaking dialogue when we all know that what audiences really want to see is outrageous vehicular slamslaughter. Read full review
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Movie NationRoger MooreJun 21, 2021
I laughed at some of the lunacy, found myself checking my watch by the third act’s inevitable overkill. But if you can’t see the fun in Helen Mirren taking the wheel of a purple Nobler supercar and one-handing it — backwards — through the darkened streets of Olde London Towne, this isn’t for you. Read full review
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VarietyOwen GleibermanMay 18, 2021
Considering that F9 is Lin’s fifth “F and F” film and his first one in eight years, it goes through the motions with more energy than intoxication. Read full review
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The Film StageJordan RaupMay 25, 2021
Slathered in nostalgia for past moments in the franchise yet still introducing entirely new backstories, this humdrum antepenultimate adventure leaves one convinced those steering the series don’t have a firm grasp on where it’s heading. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeMay 18, 2021
In F9’s would-be showstoppers, the thrills are mostly AWOL or the feats are simply too idiotic to embrace, even guiltily. Read full review
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