★★★★ We are not going to describe the plot of this tenth -perhaps last, who knows- installment of the band of car-breaking superheroes. It’s linear (bad bad guy with revenge in the offing, more bad bad guy coming from behind, millions of friends reappearing), but it also has its surprises. What series star and producer Vin Diesel has learned is that we’re going to see how many huge, amazing, tremendous things the cars can do that serve as a superpower for the group. But also that such marvels of engineering and special effects are completely meaningless – they are just abstractions of movement, and in that sense all these films have something experimental – if we don’t care about the characters. Despite the fact that the dangers are tremendous, what is in this series of the most original that mainstream cinema gave (combining mechanical acrobatics with adolescent adventure) is a group of actors/characters that we love very much. They are nice, they say cartoon phrases, they tell jokes and, above all, they love each other. That and no other is the great secret that he turned what was destined to be a set of B-class cans with an A-budget into one of those movie toys that we fondly embrace. If they don’t come back, we will miss them.
