Picking Nits
The pregnant Jordana Brewster gains no weight; the team shows up in Brazil without asking questions; action-movie Mad Libs lines; the ludicrous train heist; Wi-Fi in the warehouse; the warehouse staying secret; a brutal fight with no bruises; Hobbs joining the heist; the ten-second safe swap; the prison bus with one guard and no fatalities
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- Jordana Brewster is pregnant yet has gained zero pounds, in perfect shape at three months, while the older woman knows just from watching her eat.
- Getting the team together: anyone told to be in Brazil in 48 hours without being told why would ask what it is about, what to bring and how much cash, yet everyone just appears; the hosts admit they have had the exact 'we need you in LA' conversation themselves.
- Vin Diesel's 'I see you've all met' is a line only an action movie can say, and the film also uses the rest of the action-movie Mad Libs: don't worry about it, you're gonna want to see this, we're going to need a team, I heard about you.
- The train heist is ludicrous, though loved; the train should have derailed and they should have died in the water jump, but otherwise it was realistic.
- How did they get a wifi signal in the Brazilian warehouse, and how does Dom's giant warehouse stay secret with cars zooming in and out and a fake bank vault wheeled in by truck; the movies simply refuse to explain, as in 'I had a life before I met you'; Rock and Dom have one of the most brutal two-minute fights in movies with no bruises or cuts afterwards.
- Hobbs deciding to join the final heist is absolutely ludicrous: revenge for his killed team is the motive, and he would have to tell his boss the team was wiped out but he will be back in two days after helping with a bank heist.
- Asked whether the wrench blow crushed The Rock's skull, the answer is no, it was never in doubt because The Rock is not signing up to a movie to die; the moment recreates Dom beating a man with a wrench and then pivoting at the last minute, good moviemaking that becomes undeniable after watching all the films; and the ten-second safe swap, with the second safe coming out of the truck, needed a wide shot of how they did it.
- Earlier, during the prison bus scene: forty felons and murderers guarded by one man with one gun on a deserted highway cannot work out, and the reporter's 'no fatalities' after the bus flipped 85 times is absurd when handcuffed prisoners without seatbelts cannot brace themselves.
- Earlier, the cars should have exploded on hitting the water from 350 feet, since water is like concrete from that height, and the car they land near in the water is a factor.