What’s Going On?…

The plot of the film can be described as a heist film injected with nitro, where all the players involved are “specialists” of some kind, and they are all looking for one last job. None of them are old, or past their prime, but there is a sense that they are all living on a lit fuse. Sooner or later, their time will come. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, and Jordan Brewster headline an ensemble cast of misfits, ex-cops, and mechanics desperate for the big score. Once the film gets past bringing the team together and formulating a plan, the action quickly takes over from there. Dwayne Johnson is in this film as a DSS agent, and he’s playing his wrestling persona in “Hot-shot Marine” mode. But the acting isn’t a problem here, stripped to bare minimum as to shift the focus toward “the job”. And the whole story with our “heroes” is watching them improvise their way into pulling off a seemingly impossible heist.