So the new entry in the fast saga, Fast And Furious 9, is releasing this week and I have
had a chance to see the film early.
With all the crazy events and action in F9, there's a lot to unpack surrounding the plot,
the ending, and potential sequels.
To put it more simply, I'm going to be breaking down the plot and ending for Fast And
Furious 9, giving you a rundown of what happened in this latest entry.
This analysis will also contain spoilers, so if you do happen to be someone who hasn't
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But without further ado, let's dive into Fast And Furious 9 explained.
So the latest movie in the fast saga begins with a flashback of Dom's father, Jack Toretto
out in the field, waiting to hit the track alongside Kenny Linder.
In the 1989 flashback scene, Jack Toretto participates
in the last car race of the season, with his sons Dominic and Jakob Toretto in his pit
crew.
They help their father fix something under the car hood and at this particular moment,
Dom had warned his brother Jakob about a puddle of oil on the track but his remarks seemed
to be ignored.
Dom also argues with rival racer Kenny about his dirty tactics and a mixture of the two
results in a fateful accident.
The race begins and it is seen that Kenny Linder gets aggressive on the road after hearing
the news that Toretto is getting promoted to the next season while he isn't.
In a moment of rage, Linder cuts Toretto from the back, making his car roll over the puddle
of oil and crashing into a fence at full speed.
The car combusts and Jack Toretto dies, leaving Dom helplessly trying to save his father but
is dragged away by Buddy, his team member.
Fast forward to the present day, and Dominic Toretto looks forward to leading a peaceful
life with Letty and their son Brian in the countryside.
However, the main plotline is about to kick into gear because Roman Pierce,
Tej Parker, and Ramsay visit the family to confront them with some news.
They reveal that they had caught a distress signal from the series returner, Mr Nobody,
who refers to a valuable cargo.
What is worrisome about this incident was that the plane from which the signal was sent
had previously carried Cipher and helped her escape before, presumably, crashing somewhere
in the northwestern part of Montecinto.
The team collectively decides to find Mr Nobody but Dom refuses to go with them, explaining
that he doesn't want their son to be affected, and opting for a quieter family future.
We get an essence of this when the team previously arrived as Dom made his son hide and set up
defence just in case.
Letty, on the other hand, reveals that she's done with the quiet life and is seeking adventure,
thereby implying that she's joining the team.
The team leaves for the mission as Dom stays at home with his son, but once he decides
to watch the video footage once again, he notices Toretto’s family cross on the neck
of the attacker and realises that the attacker could be his younger brother, Jakob.
As a result, he has no choice but to go down the Middle East too.
The team arrives at the crash site in Montecinto and discover the plane but as they scavenge
through it, they realise that Mr Nobody is nowhere to be found.
Searching the plane, they find part of a device named Aries, which can hack into any
computer weapons system, but at this time they are attacked by a private army and Jakob,
who notices that Letty has dropped an item that belongs to the team and steals it.
Upon realising the matter at hand, the team chase after him but to no avail.
This whole sequence began a plethora of over the top
action, that although to some may be fun, I found it really took me out of the story
and character motivations that was set up well in the opening flashback sequence.
Dom and Letty survive a ridiculous cliff jump, Jakob's car gets caught by a plane with a
magnet are just a few of the examples, and overall, I wish it would have been a
little more grounded.
But back to the plot, the item that was stolen is revealed to be one of two components of
Project Aries.
Since it is now under Jacob's possession, Cipher breaks into the system of Mr Nobody’s
agency and finds out the location of the second component, which is in the city of Edinburgh.
We are introduced here to Otto, a rich villain who is the main funding for
the project.
Alongside this plot, another flashback emerges and finally answers all questions about Dom's
relationship with his younger brother, revealing that when Dom finds out his brother had accidentally
killed their father, he punishes Jakob by kicking him out of the family.
Their relationship then functions on mutual hatred, thus revealing why Jacob came into
the picture as an enemy after so long.
This comes after a sequence in 1989, where after the crash, Linder has an altercation
with Dom, who nearly beats him to death and gets arrested as Jakob watches.
When he comes back he races Jakob, wins, and tells him to drive and never come back.
To follow Jacob and get the item from him, Dom sets up a meeting with Buddy, the friend
of the Toretto family who held him back in the opening scene and he gives him a lead
that Jakob might be in London.
He also expresses that he hopes for the brothers to reunite and make peace with history.
And as every film under the Fast and Furious franchise goes, this movie, too, rides high
on brotherhood and reignites the lost relationship.
It's probably the best part of the film and it could have been explored more,
but I'll save that discussion for a review video later in the week.
But Dom is soon reluctantly joined by Mia Toretto, who wishes to help.
The team learns in this time that Han is alive, and working with Mr Nobody,
resulting in them all splitting up, with Letty and Mia searching for Han in Tokyo.
They encounter him and his ward Elle with much to
reveal here later on in the plot.
While this happens, Roman and Tej recruit Sean, Twinkie and Earl Hu, some familiars
from Tokyo Drift, who have been working on a rocket car.
Roman and Tej devise a plan to use the rocket car and go to space to destroy that satellite
link of Project Aries.
In London, Dom also meets Hellen Mirren'S Queenie Shaw, who gives him Jakob's location,
leading to a confrontation with him alongside Otto, who tells Dom to leave.
Otto has Dom arrested, but Leysa, played by Cardi B, acts an old friend of Dom who helps
him escape.
It's a weird scene to watch and like previous movies, cameo roles don't work very well,
especially with Cardi B not being the greatest at acting.
But soon after, the team begin to join back up, with Tej, Roman and Ramsey joining Dom
in Edinburgh, where Jakob is using an electromagnetic field to steal the second Aries device.
Tej and Roman find the truck containing the electromagnet as they fight Otto's men and
Ramsey controls the truck to chase after Otto.
Dom intercepts Jakob and the two fight throughout the city.
Before Otto can extract Jakob, Ramsey runs his car off the road, and Dom uses the electromagnet
to capture Jakob.
Otto returns to his base and resultingly recruits Cipher who plots a last-minute plan.
Back at the safe house, we learn more about Han's return and how it links in to the events
unfolding.
Han reveals that he was assigned by Mr Nobody to protect Elle and Aries, as Elle’s DNA
is its final component.
When one of Mr Nobody's agents went rogue, they used Deckard Shaw to fake Han's death,
for him to protect Elle.
However, this reveal is soon interrupted when Otto attacks the safe house and frees Jakob,
who had been Mr Nobody's rogue agent.
Jakob reveals that in 1989, Jack had been in massive debt and was planning to fake his
death to escape it.
He had Jakob tamper with his car, but the plan went wrong, causing the car to explode.
Setting up the final sequence, Jakob and Otto kidnap Elle and take the second Aries device.
Everything begins to come together as Otto launches a satellite into orbit, while Jakob
has Elle activate Aries.
They begin uploading Aries to the satellite, moving throughout Tbilisi in an armoured truck
and Dom, Letty, Mia, Ramsey and Han give chase to rescue Elle and stop the upload.
As Mia and Han try to breach the truck, Jakob is betrayed by Otto, and thrown off with Dom
and Mia saving him, leading to his escape.
Jakob uses Mia’s car to get away, but after reconsideration, he soon returns to help Dom
enter the armoured truck.
They gain control, get out and flip the truck using dom and Jakob's car, resulting in a
pretty epic, but again over the top moment.
Meanwhile, as everything goes down on the highway, Tej and Roman use the rocket car
to enter orbit and destroy the satellite before Aries can be uploaded.
It's weird seeing this as it's been a running joke that Fast and Furious would eventually
go to space, and crazily they do that here.
But after they've stopped the device, the last-ditch attack by Cipher is
about to take place, and it's pretty underwhelming.
Cipher remotely pilots a jet to bomb the truck, attempting to kill Dom, but completely fails,
killing Otto instead.
The truck ricochets into Cipher's plane, destroying it, and because she's piloting it from a remote
location, Cipher escapes alive.
I guess we'll see her continue to be one of the main villains in the last two movies alongside
a certain character from the post-credits scene.
But we'll get to that in a second.
But after the final battle, Mia reconciles with Jakob, and Dom allows his brother to
escape in his 1970 Dodge Charger 500.
Like I suggested, the relationship between Dom and
Jakob is probably the best part of this film and although there were some questionable
moments with their motivations, I think it's still one of the stronger parts.
But following Dom and Jakob making peace, Toretto and his son arrive at the racing track
where Dom's father had died in the flashback, bidding him a final goodbye.
It's a nice callback and one that gets to the heart of the Toretto name, again being
a better element of the film.
The closing moments also include what we get in every Fast and Furious
movie, having the team, or family as Dom puts it, celebrate their success with a barbecue.
While preparing to say grace, Brian’s car arrives in the driveway and
like the previous films it's a nice callback for his character, joining the table where
he always belonged.
But Fast 9 has a post-credits sequence and we begin to see where the saga could go in
the next films, with a return of a fan favourite character.
Even though we believed we wouldn't see Deckard Shaw again until Fast & Furious 10, Jason
Statham makes his return to the main franchise in the credits scene.
Shaw is seemingly just training away on a punchbag, but there's actually an unlucky
person inside of it.
He pleads to be let go in return for some plans on a drive, unaware that Shaw already
has them and is just beating him up to stay in shape.
Fortunately for his punchbag victim, Shaw's workout is interrupted by a knock on the door
and when he goes to open it, he comes face-to-face with Han.
Unsurprisingly, Shaw seems a bit shocked to see somebody he thought he'd killed, but that's
as much as we get before it cuts to black.
So it absolutely will be something Fast & Furious fans will want to see in the next movie as
they've been calling for #JusticeForHan since Shaw's turn in Fast & Furious 8 and now Han's
alive again, they could have their wish.
Director Justin Lin will return for the epic two-movie finale to this Fast & Furious story
and since he's spoken about how Shaw and Dwayne Johnson's Hobbs are part of this saga, we
would expect to see them return at some point in those movies.
We'll have to see, but with there being some underwhelming aspects to
this latest film, the post-credits scene does offer up some interesting ideas that could
be explored with Deckard Shaw and Han.
But that was my video explaining the plot and ending for Fast And Furious 9.
I hope this did help some of you guys understand the events a bit better and I'm looking forward
to hearing what else you picked out in the film, so don't forget to let me know down
below in the comments section.
I will most likely be doing a review video for Fast 9
later this week too, so keep a lookout for whenever I post.
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