Maltin on movies meltdown comics1/23/2024 ![]() ![]() His books include The 151 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons, The Great Movie Comedians, The Disney Films, The Art of the Cinematographer, Movie Comedy Teams, The Great American Broadcast, and Leonard Maltin’s Movie Encyclopedia. He teaches at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and appears regularly on Reelz Channel and Turner Classic Movies. He is best known for his widely-used reference work Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide and its companion volume Leonard Maltin’s Classic Movie Guide, now in its third edition, as well as his thirty-year run on television’s Entertainment Tonight. ![]() Leonard Maltin is one of the world’s most respected film critics and historians. Let’s just say I won’t be waiting for the published version. Director Justin Lin, who made the leap from indie auteur to Big Time Filmmaker with this series, is credited with the script along with Daniel Casey from a story they devised with Alfredo Botello. A few casting cameos made me smile but even they aren’t sufficient reward for sitting through such a ridiculous film. The spoilers I carefully avoid in writing a review couldn’t betray a scenario so devoid of logic. I couldn’t provide a synopsis of this two-hour and twenty-five minute movie if I wanted to (and I don’t). In this entry we flash back in time to learn the events that shaped the fate of Dominic Toretto (Diesel) and his brother, who to the best of my recollection has never been mentioned before. ![]() In recent installments of the series Vin Diesel has preached the gospel of family above all. People die but show up again intact, like Wile E. The series, which began in 2001 with an action yarn called The Fast and the Furious, becomes more absurd with each new entry, leaving its original premise (about illegal street racing) behind and morphing into a mishmash of car chases, cloak-and-dagger operations, spectacular explosions, and violent fight scenes. But then, I don’t believe the preposterous goings-on in F9, part of what’s now being called The Fast Saga. Does a so-called summer movie have to be brain-dead? I don’t believe it. ![]()
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