Fast & Furious 9 Review: 5 Ups & 5 Downs

1. It's The Worst In The Series Since The Fourth

The series has been on such a hot streak since Fast Five that it was just a matter of time before the wheels surely came off, and while hardly a failure, F9 is nevertheless the series' worst effort since it was reinvented.

Between the absurdity being pushed to divisive levels and its overabundance of charmless soap opera nonsense, F9 may finally have seen the Fast Saga hit the wall of franchise fatigue.

With F10 already being prepped, one can only hope that Lin might be able to persuade Chris Morgan to return to the fold, because it's clear that the overall vision is lacking without him.

Bringing the conspicuously absent Dwayne Johnson back sure couldn't hurt, either. That said, scaling things back a little might be for the better overall, because if F9 isn't a full-on jumping of the shark moment, it's dangerously close.

These issues aside, though, here's everything F9 absolutely nails...