Fast & Furious 6
Universal Pictures | Release Date: May 24, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
61
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Generally favorable reviews based on 39 Critic Reviews
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21
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16
Negative:
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperMay 23, 2013
Against all odds, the billion-dollar “Fast & Furious” franchise is actually picking up momentum, with “FF6” clocking in as the fastest, funniest and most outlandish chapter yet. Read full review
88
Chicago TribuneChristopher BorrelliMay 23, 2013
Actually, if "Fast 6" shows any new ambitions, it's by enthusiastically embracing its inner-Telemundo, its heated, knotty "Game of Thrones" melodrama. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyMay 22, 2013
Check your brain at the door and fasten your seat belt. Read full review
80
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanMay 23, 2013
“Let’s go for a little ride,” teases Vin Diesel as Dom Toretto at the start of Fast & Furious 6, an amusingly mild suggestion that’s also the only moment of understatement in two dizzyingly high-octane hours. Read full review
80
Film.comLaremy LegelMay 15, 2013
This is a franchise entirely comfortable with what it is, what it’s not, and what it has to offer. It has a whole mess of “Fast” for us all, and woe be the souls who enter this film hoping to go slow. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Adam NaymanMay 23, 2013
The post-end-credits introduction of another bullet-headed genre-flick icon as the possible villain for the next instalment (already slated for production) means that Johnson may finally get a worthy foil. So: Same time next year, then? Read full review
75
Boston GlobeTom RussoMay 23, 2013
At more leisurely, less furious moments, meanwhile, the cast shows the easy chemistry that comes with having now done a couple of these all-hands-on-deck episodes. Read full review
75
New York PostLou LumenickMay 23, 2013
For my money, Furious 6 is more fun than “Skyfall" and a lot more fun than the deadly dull “Star Trek Into Darkness,’’ both of which ask you to take their silly plots way too seriously. Read full review
75
Portland OregonianM. E. RussellMay 23, 2013
"Fast Five" and Fast & Furious 6 -- the newest, nearly-as-much-dumb-fun sequel -- play more like "The Avengers" than they don't. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMay 23, 2013
It's stupid but glorious -- Dominic (Vin Diesel) and his crew of high-spirited street racers are hired by an FBI agent to hunt down an international terrorist in London. Ridiculous and entertaining from start to finish.
75
Philadelphia InquirerDavid HiltbrandMay 23, 2013
The plot and dialogue are still stilted and stupid, but that only proves that Justin Lin, who has directed the last four F & Fs, has his priorities straight. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyMay 22, 2013
Fast & Furious 6 is equal parts Ocean’s movie, Road Runner cartoon, and WWE SmackDown. In other words, it’s more or less the same movie as its predecessor. Read full review
75
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallMay 22, 2013
This franchise that won't die began in 2001 as The Fast and the Furious and has pretty much run through every title permutation, so the inevitable next chapter might be called only "The & The 7." Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinMay 27, 2013
The driving in the film is a thing of beauty. Read full review
70
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerMay 23, 2013
A satisfying thrill ride, at least on a par with the earlier installments. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyMay 23, 2013
What really sets "F&F6" apart is the blinding speed with which it shifts between over-the-top action, that speedometer inching toward 800 mph at times, and soap opera emotions that bring everything to a screeching halt. It's enough to give you whiplash … in a good way. Read full review
70
TimeRichard CorlissMay 20, 2013
Furious 6 is even cooler and more aerodynamically delirious than its predecessor, if such a thing is even theoretically possible. Read full review
70
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlMay 17, 2013
Everyone involved at last seems to understand that the mode here is comic. Previous entries suffered from self-important glumness that gummed up the fun whenever the cars weren’t racing. Read full review
70
VarietyScott FoundasMay 13, 2013
Though high-octane stunts have always been the primary selling point here, Lin and veteran “Fast” screenwriter Chris Morgan have labored to add depth, dimensionality and inner conflict to the now-sprawling cast of recurring characters — so much so that, at times, “Furious 6” plays like a glossy gearhead melodrama. Read full review
63
Washington PostJen ChaneyMay 23, 2013
Like its predecessors, doesn’t need CGI, 3-D glasses or even praise from film critics. It just needs to please its audience with amped-up, old-school thrills that make its target demo whoop and holler with every zoom, smash and ka-BOOM. Consider this review a declaration that it does just that. Read full review
63
Rolling StonePeter TraversMay 23, 2013
It’s kickass trash that never pretends to be more. Bonus points for that. Read full review
60
The New YorkerAnthony LaneJun 3, 2013
Diesel, of course, slots into the Fast and Furious films as neatly as a dip-stick. Not only does his name remind you of the stuff you pump into a car; when he opens his mouth, he actually sounds like a car. [3 June 2013, p.74]
60
NPRScott TobiasMay 23, 2013
It's glorious while it lasts, but then the film goes back to figuring out how to keep its oversized vessel from taking on water. Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfMay 21, 2013
None of it makes any sense, except within the high-octane logic of blowing stuff up onscreen. And, in case you’re wondering, sometimes that can be entertainment enough: Slack-jawed euphoria shoots like nitro through the film. (Please be careful in the parking lot afterward.) Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyMay 13, 2013
No matter how silly and outlandish the action gets — and it does become ridiculous — it also delivers the goods its audience expects. Read full review
60
Total FilmJames MottramMay 13, 2013
Another silly but sturdy instalment that’s as well-oiled as The Rock’s muscles. If the ‘Letty in London’ story doesn’t exactly have that new-car smell, this is still the fastest soap opera on wheels. Read full review
60
EmpireOwen WilliamsMay 13, 2013
No film that includes a Vin Diesel flying headbutt could remotely be called a write-off, and Furious 6, like its predecessors, is a big screen no-brainer that’s objectively terrible but undeniably pleasurable. A reversal from Fast 5, it’s still a gear above all the other sequels. And an end-credits teaser promises much for the future. Read full review
58
The PlaylistOliver LytteltonMay 13, 2013
While there's a lot of fun to be had, Furious 6 doesn't quite hit the insane heights of "Fast Five," but we're sure it'll delight franchise fans who mostly want to see bald people butt heads, and moving vehicles crash into other moving vehicles. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comSteven BooneJun 6, 2013
Fast 6 is solid entertainment, but it might have been great if it recognized that a human touch is a rare thing, and when you have it, there's no need to keep clenching it into a fist. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMay 27, 2013
"Entertainment" is in the eye of the beholder. For me, watching Fast & Furious 6 was more work than fun. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsMay 23, 2013
How you feel about Fast & Furious 6 is a matter of perspective. While a middle-age egghead might note that a series that started out as a harmless cars-and-girls fantasy has devolved into a full-blown assault on human intelligence. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesMay 23, 2013
There is a plot – a pretty clunky one, jerry-rigged with character motivations that amount to one long “huh?” and dialogue that might as well have been chunked out of a cliche generator – but who needs plot when we can have mayhem? Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia PuigMay 22, 2013
Fast & Furious 6 might have just as easily been called "Planes, Tanks and Automobiles." Read full review
50
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMay 21, 2013
Bad movies are rarely as much fun as these “Fast and the Furious” pictures. And make no mistake about it — they’re bad. Read full review
40
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottMay 24, 2013
Just don't think too hard -- or at all, really -- or else you run the risk of realizing that Fast & Furious 6 is running on little more than fumes, with just a shot or two of nitrous. Read full review
40
The TelegraphTim RobeyMay 15, 2013
Before, after, and between these (action) sequences, even by the paltry standard of previous scripts, it’s slow-witted and won’t shut up. Read full review
40
Time Out LondonDerek AdamsMay 15, 2013
With its puerile dialogue, daft performances, flat comic repartee and ear-rupturingly loud sound levels, the experience of watching ‘Fast & Furious 6’ is like listening to death metal pour out of 500-watt speakers while being strapped to a pneumatic drill. Apart from Diesel’s likeably mild-mannered persona, there’s little here that we haven’t seen before. Read full review
30
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzMay 23, 2013
It’s hard to get excited about any of the on-screen happenings, because director Justin Lin can’t seem to hit the right notes. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineChris CabinMay 16, 2013
Justin Lin strives to approximate something like Ocean's Eleven for petrosexuals, but testosterone outweighs wit and cleverness at every turn in Chris Morgan's starched script. Read full review
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