Fast X
Universal Pictures | Release Date: May 19, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 59 Critic Reviews
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25
Mixed:
27
Negative:
7
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60
The Observer (UK)Mark KermodeMay 20, 2023
Disbelief is not so much suspended as detonated. Read full review
60
We Got This CoveredScott CampbellMay 19, 2023
Fast X doubles down on everything longtime fans have come to know and love about the franchise, but anyone who isn't sold on the saga at this stage isn't going to be won over. Read full review
60
The Irish TimesTara BradyMay 18, 2023
Keeping up with the many, many characters and their peccadillos is dizzying. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshMay 17, 2023
Leterrier and Momoa bring an energy and excitement to Fast X that juices the engine to deliver the goods that fans want. But the jumbled lore and odd treatment of characters may leave audiences with more questions than answers, and wondering whether the franchise is running on fumes. Read full review
60
PolygonKatie RifeMay 17, 2023
Fast X suffers from the same condition as latter-day MCU movies, where it’s so laden with internal mythology that it feels more like homework than popcorn entertainment. Read full review
60
UproxxMike RyanMay 17, 2023
Making this installment complicated is it doesn’t have an ending. It literally ends during the middle of a scene. After 2 hours and 20 minutes of Fast action, even I was taken aback when the credits started to roll. Read full review
60
Little White LiesJake ColeMay 17, 2023
Surprisingly, Fast X emerges as not only Leterrier’s best film but one of the most enjoyable entries in the entire series. A great deal of this can be attributed to the fact that this film, to an extent heretofore unseen, acknowledges and embraces just how absurd this franchise is. Read full review
60
BBCNicholas BarberMay 17, 2023
Leterrier's achievement in assembling such a gargantuan, multi-stranded, globe-trotting, head-spinning blockbuster is impressive, but however many gruff sermons Dom makes about his family, it's impossible to care about any of it. Read full review
60
The GuardianScott TobiasMay 17, 2023
Vin Diesel et al return for an overstuffed Fast and Furious chapter that delivers giddily effective action but an outsized and silly villain. Read full review
60
EmpireDan JolinMay 17, 2023
Cinema’s least-subtle and most-escalated series hits its sky-high-concept plateau. It's a film that somehow finds new and fabulously silly things to do with cars, while — Momoa’s questionable villain aside — being exactly what you’d expect. Read full review
60
Screen RantMolly FreemanMay 17, 2023
Fast X is a breathless thrill ride that occasionally gets bogged down in melodramatic dialogue, but Jason Momoa's villain makes it a blast to watch. Read full review
58
The Film StageConor O'DonnellMay 19, 2023
All told, Fast X is an improvement on its recent predecessors and perfectly welcome as distracting summer fare, but whether or not it will stall before the end of the road remains to be seen. Read full review
58
IndieWireJude DryMay 17, 2023
The action delivers, but the film’s third act suffers from an excess of set-ups, cameos, and minor deaths played up as major losses. After all, they have two more to go. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMay 22, 2023
In Fast X, there's plenty of noise and CGI (some of it on the dodgy, cheap-looking side) and things crashing and blowing up, but there's never a sense that it means anything. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreMay 19, 2023
The film plays more like it was made by an AI versed in the existing movies but not quite up to spitting out something coherent itself. Read full review
50
ABC NewsPeter TraversMay 19, 2023
Only glints of the old whiplash magic remain in chapter 10 as thrills give way to thudding formula and paycheck acting—not you Jason Momoa—that slow down the action to forge the limping runt of the F&F litter. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyChristian HolubMay 17, 2023
Fast X wants all the grandiosity of finality while not actually ending anything. Read full review
50
IGNTom JorgensenMay 17, 2023
An underwhelming lead-up to the series finale, Fast X's only real redeeming quality is Jason Momoa's bonkers performance as the villain. Read full review
50
Original-CinThom ErnstMay 17, 2023
Fast X dials in every living character (with some post-mortem appearances) to wrap up the decades-long franchise. If you’re not caught up on your F&F history, you are liable to find yourself reaching for a GPS to guide you through the plot. Read full review
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Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsMay 17, 2023
My affection for a lot of the earlier F&F movies has everything to do with the people on the screen, and the squealing of the tires. Not so much the world destruction. Outlandish mayhem needs better visual stylists than Leterrier. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperMay 17, 2023
Everyone slips comfortably into their roles and does what they can with the goofy dialogue and the death-defying, logic-defeating stunt sequences. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn HornadayMay 17, 2023
Next to Momoa, the novelty of Fast X lies mostly in its cameos, which only a spoilsport would describe in more detail; suffice it to say that most work, and the most newsworthy come in the film’s final scenes, including the closing credits. Not surprisingly, Fast X brings new meaning to the term “cliffhanger.” There’s definitely more to come. There always is. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoMay 17, 2023
Even as it’s spinning through enjoyably goofy action set pieces, most of them enlivened greatly by a fun performance from Jason Momoa, there’s a desperate familiarity to the entirety of “Fast X” that makes it feel more like reheated leftovers than this series has before. Read full review
40
The New York TimesWesley MorrisMay 18, 2023
The best I can say about all of this is that it didn’t bore me. Read full review
40
The Daily BeastNick SchagerMay 17, 2023
There’s plenty of preposterousness to be found in this sequel, which barely revs to life when indulging in automotive mayhem and outright stalls every time its human characters open their mouths. Read full review
40
CNNBrian LowryMay 17, 2023
Yet for all its high-octane action this tenth film is really just revving its engine for more sequels to come, kicking off a multi-part story that offers an appropriately bloated way to bring this very loud enterprise to a (no doubt temporary) finish. Read full review
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VarietyPeter DebrugeMay 17, 2023
Leterrier’s bad with story but reasonably strong on the action front. Characters are constantly jumping in and out of speeding vehicles in these movies, and Leterrier’s job here must have felt somewhat similar, clambering aboard the juggernaut that is the “Fast” franchise in full steam. Read full review
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