Golf Resort In Miami - Fast & Furious’... And Lots Of Fun

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Fast & Furious 6

Rated PG-13. at the AMC Loews Boston Common, Regal Fenway Stadium 13 and suburban theaters.

GRADE- B+

A hybrid of “Mission: Impossible” and Hot Wheels, “Fast & Furious 6” is an example of how to use wit, humor and intelligence to turn a dumb summer release into a smart and fun popcorn movie. It may be the best movie in the 12-year-old “Fast and Furious” franchise.

They’re back, including Letty Ortiz (Michelle Rodriguez, who should be a major star). Letty was thought to be killed a while ago but survived and is part of the villain’s gang in this installment because she has (collective groan) amnesia.

Gearhead and vintage muscle-car buff Dom Toretto (a fine tongue-in-cheek turn by underrated Vin Diesel) remains the soulful, gravelly voiced father figure of this crew, and he is living in Rio with squeeze Elena (Elsa Pataky), along with former cop Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker) and his soul mate Mia (Jordana Brewster), who is Dom’s sister (as if), and has just given birth to her and Brian’s son.

Brian is the group’s big brother, while Roman Pierce (Tyrese Gibson) is the clown, Tej Parker (Ludakris) the team’s “we-can-do-it” coach and— get it? ­— Han Seoul-Oh (Sun Kang) and Giselle Harabo (Gal Gadot) its Romeo and Juliet.

Once again, Dom and his family of renegade drivers are recruited “M:I”-style by hulking U.S. agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson). Hobbs, whose T-shirt looks as if it is screaming in agony, wants Dom to track down another crew of expert drivers, headed by the deadly Owen Shaw (Luke Evans). Along with Hobbs is female warrior Riley (Gina Carano of “Haywire”).

The film, which boasts lots of slugfests and car chases in the streets of London, is like a superhero movie with wise-cracking humans doing superhuman things with vehicles of many kinds, including a 10-ton Chieftain tank and, in the fiery, ridiculously over-the-top finale, a Russian cargo plane.

Director Justin Lin also helmed the series’ third effort as well as the 2009 reboot “Fast & Furious.” He keeps the carefully choreographed action scenes semi-coherent, no small feat considering the fast and furious editing. Some of the vehicles are clearly digital, and much of the plot is totally absurd. But Lin obviously knows enough to let Diesel and the rest of the talented cast have fun with their lines, improvise their banter and keep it all light and amusing. Start your engines and go.