So look, F&F is a series of absurd movies with ridiculous plots, but even by those standards, this one is silly. Part of that silliness is that it doesn’t actually feel like a true F&F movie, it feels like just a generic action blockbuster. Like, there’s more slapsticky humor, more PG-rated innuendo… take away the franchise-related proper nouns, and you could totally buy this as a forgettable Netflix Original. It even has Ryan Reynolds in it, doing his Ryan Reynolds thing! (Mercifully, not for very long.)

Really, there’s not much more to say about it; it’s one of those by-the-numbers things where, given any particular moment in the film, if you were to write the next line of dialogue and chose the most obvious thing possible, you’d be correct every time. My brain is already wiping it from memory, and soon this post will be my only record of having watched it at all.

The ending (with its three separate pre-credit/mid-credit/post-credit stingers) sets up a sequel in multiple open-ended ways, but my understanding is that the movie flopped and The Rock has no interest in coming back to the franchise, so no sequel is likely. Good.

Recommended for F&F completists only.