MOVIE REVIEW: Fast Five
FAST FIVE-- 4 STARS Official Website Internet Movie Database After Mark Wahlberg struck a hit with remaking the car-heist classic, The Italian Job, in 2003, the filmmakers, cast, and fans alike have been clamoring for a sequel. Several drafts of a script entitled The Brazilian Job have been bouncing around Hollywood and gathering dust instead of steam since 2004. Go ahead and table any chance of that being made, because Paramount Pictures and director F. Gary Gray ( Law Abiding Citizen, The Negotiator , and Friday ) would have to top Universal Pictures and director Justin Lin's Fast Five. Good luck. They would have to rename and set the sequel on the Moon to beat the over-the-top Rio de Janeiro action of the latest chapter in the The Fast and the Furious series. Fast Five starts the 2011 summer movie season off early with a muffler-rattling bang, and does it a week before the traditional first-week-of-May leadoff big hitter slot opens with Marvel Studios' ...