The Fast and the Fierce

The poster is very misleading. Intending to make it look like something akin to The Fast and The Furious. The plane, the passengers, the crew, the captain, all nonsense. The plane flying between buildings you wouldn't even find in a computer game! And the acting is mostly bad, the plot doesn't make sense, and the last minute is also dumb, dumb. Give it a miss, I really mean it!

I'll start with the positives since its not the long. The premise of the movie itself wasn't bad and if you look past the plot holes and its nonsense logic. The story itself could have been great. It just wasn't.

Ok, the bad parts were really bad and I was waiting for something of substance or at least a worthwhile payoff. In the end we get out of nowhere "plot twists".

The acting was lazy and terrible in others. Either the actors knew it was that bad and didn't try or not any good. I didn't recognize any of them except one. He was at least decent-ish but given the only campy and ridiculous dialogue I've ever heard. It was similar to good ol' JR if you're an old-school wrestling fan.

There was no motive given nor any kind of exposition of one. The bad and phoned-in acting and the nonsensical plot were too much.

Only watch this movie during a bad movie night.

'The Fast and the Fierce' - seriously? The title is a total misnomer, there's nothing remotely related to the 'Fast & Furious' franchise in this logic defying bomb on a plane ride. Benji (Steffi) is a no-hoper husband to hottie Donna (Davila) whose aboard a flight that's been rigged to explode unless he can obtain a computer code for seductive terrorist (Swain, who isn't bad) after the confident criminal makes him an offer he simply can't refuse (although he doesn't really show any sense of urgency until it's almost too late).

Veteran actor Paul co-stars as the Homeland Security agent trying his best to engineer a safe landing for the hijacked plane, and his character has the best of the banal dialogue on offer, the other actors having to contend with word drivel which they patiently deliver in some absurd situations - the more heavy handed flight attendant basically has the same cliched conversation with multiple passengers at regular intervals, warning them that their behaviour will not be tolerated and that they risk humiliation if they don't return to their seats. Yawn.

You wouldn't bet the house on a slacker like Benji pulling through, although the gravity of his perilous situation starts to sink-in when he discovers he wasn't the hijacker's first choice (although that doesn't really reconcile with the rest of the plot as you'll discover).

Heroes and villains are cleverly disguised and there's a few unexpected twists, but in the end the many ruses & red herrings cease to make sense and this cheap 'Speed' / 'Executive Decision' imitation loses the plot altogether.

I enjoy movies by The Asylum, if you watch enough of them your expectations are not very high You just want to watch something that involves minimal thinking and one viewing is enough... This movie 100% meets that criteria.

Have made no secret in the past of intensely disliking, and even outright hating a lot, a vast majority of The Asylum's (near-universally maligned for good reason) output, though there is curiosity as to whether they are capable of making something good and compulsive about their output's badness. Admittedly, The Asylum do have a small group of watchable films and the occasional (big emphasis on that word) above average one, unfortunately outweighed by the lacklustre at best and often dreadful films they churn out.

One would think from the title that 'The Fast and the Fierce' has something to do with 'The Fast and the Furious' films or ripping them off. It's neither really, and it is that it's not a rip-off, despite being very predictable and derivative, is pretty much the only thing that stops it from being one of the studio's worst. While not quite one of The Asylum's all-time worst, everything bad about their output is present and it's basically an abomination that shows no shame it seems in being as bad as it is.

1/10 is not a common rating for me these days and generally try to be encouraging and balanced when reviewing. There have been a fair share of films seen that have deserved the rating and look as though they didn't even try, other than wasting good actors that is one of film's biggest cardinal sins for me. That's the case with 'The Fast and the Fierce'.

As expected, 'The Fast and the Fierce' is cheap, and that's being generous, visually, even for something made on a low budget. It's very drably and sometimes dizzyingly shot, incoherently edited (bacon-slicer-like) with glaring and unforgivably sloppy continuity errors and even the scenery doesn't make much impression despite being actually the least bad aspect of the film. There are worse special effects in other Asylum films, they still look very cheap though and like they were an afterthought and made in haste. Am aware of the film being low-budget, but there are examples of low-budget films that still don't look awful and manage to be pretty good.

Can remember little about the music, which tended to be intrusive, annoying and out of place. The script makes little sense, sounds awkward constantly and on the wrong side of camp throughout.

There is absolutely nothing thrilling, tense, suspenseful, emotionally investable or fun about the story. The predictability may have been forgivable if the film was actually engaging let alone exciting but it fails to be either throughout. 'The Fast and the Fierce' is basically non-stop dullness and intelligence-insulting ridiculousness, with unintentional humour because of the excessive cheese, too much often extraneous talk and not enough action and extremely flat and irritating character writing.

Its incredibly dreadful with no exceptions acting from a cast that wouldn't even pass for Z-grade is one of the film's worst assets.

Overall, really poor. 1/10 Bethany Cox