We see a racetrack flashback, giving us the brothers’ traumatised backstory, and the two boys are actually played by different actors (Vinnie Bennett and Finn Cole). Photograph: Universal Picturesĭominic turns out to have a brother, Jacob, played with straight-backed and purse-lipped venom by John Cena, who is engaged in a plan to steal a MacGuffiny data module connected with the shadowy kingpin Mr Nobody (Kurt Russell), because Jacob has always been jealous of his tough elder bro. well, the whole babysitting/childcare thing is dealt with very cursorily indeed.Īll very macho … Vin Diesel and John Cena as Dominic and Jakob Toretto. The team show up at the farm with news of a new crisis and Dominic and Letty join them with hardly a second thought, leaving their child with. It was nonsense then and it’s nonsense now. This, incidentally, was the point of maturity supposedly reached in FF6 by Dominic’s pal Brian O’Conner – played by the late Paul Walker – when he became a dad.

Doing what? Being an Uber driver? No, he is apparently living on a farm with his partner Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) and their adorable little child. The deal now is that fatherhood has supposedly given Dominic a zen indifference to his previous life, and he is out of the game. what? Superheroes? Gods? Actors in a movie? Roman gets an uproariously surreal scene with Tej (Chris “Ludacris” Bridges), as they somehow get blasted off into space in their car to destroy a satellite. And FF9 gives us some great comedy from Tyrese Gibson, who really comes into his own as a funny performer here, playing Roman, one of Dominic’s crew who has a kind of saucer-eyed existential crisis as he realises that he, and everyone else in the film, has taken part in a large number of unfeasibly dangerous missions without ever getting injured, and he begins to think that they must all be.

Fast 9 cast