It\u2019s a big ask for a 20-year-old film franchise to deliver something new and different, but Fast X<\/a> \u2013 the 10th entry in the the billion dollar-grossing Fast & Furious series \u2013 does just that, eschewing the traditional BBQ-and-beers climax for a cliffhanger that leaves the fates of Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his \u201cfamilia\u201d up in the air.<\/p>\n The movie is closely linked to 2011\u2019s Fast Five<\/a>, introducing Dante Reyes (Jason Momoa) \u2013 son of that film\u2019s antagonist, drug lord Hernan Reyes (Joaquim de Almeida), and a psychopathic terrorist who uses his seemingly limitless resources to pursue revenge against Dom, the man responsible for his father\u2019s death.<\/p>\n Throughout Fast X, Dante targets not just Dom but also every single member of his foe\u2019s extended family, determined to deliver on Hernan\u2019s old credo: \u201cNever accept death where suffering is owed.\u201d<\/p>\n Having ruthlessly pursued Dom across the globe and manipulated events to ensure the Fast family are divided, Dante faces off against his quarry again \u2013 the pair engage in a long sequence of vehicular acrobatics through the streets of Portugal, with Dom eventually able to recover his kidnapped son Brian \u201cLittle B\u201d Marcos (Leo Abelo Perry).<\/p>\n Dom and Little B appear to escape Dante and his goons, but at a cost: Dom\u2019s estranged brother Jakob (John Cena), who worked against his sibling in previous entry F9<\/a> (2021) before returning to the side of the angels, sacrifices himself in an explosive confrontation with Dante\u2019s forces, finding redemption in death.<\/p> Dante won\u2019t be thwarted, however \u2013 he is able to lead Dom into a trap, with two huge tankers operated by his men hemming in the legendary racer\u2019s Dodge Charger at the top of a dam. Salvation appears to have found Dom when his team \u2013 Roman (Tyrese Gibson), Tej (Ludacris), Ramsey (Nathalie Emmanuel) and Han (Sung Kang) \u2013 arrive by plane to rescue him, but once again the relief is short-lived, with the craft taken out of the air by a rocket.<\/p>\n Said shot was fired by Aimes (Alan Ritchson), head of the mysterious Agency that had previously worked alongside Dom\u2019s crew. Playing with audience expectations (how many times across the series have we seen an opponent of Dom\u2019s eventually switch sides and join the Fast family?), Aimes had appeared to warm to Dom having previously sought to lock him up \u2013 a la Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) \u2013 but it\u2019s revealed in the closing scenes of Fast X that he\u2019s actually a bad apple and the longtime criminal partner of Dante Reyes.<\/p>\n With nowhere else to go, Dom \u2013 with Little B in tow \u2013 drives his car off the road and straight down the dam<\/em>.<\/p>\n The two tankers collide and erupt into flames, sending fiery chaos in Dom\u2019s direction, but our hero is able to outrun the explosion \u2013 still while driving vertically \u2013 and lands his vehicle safely in a lake at the bottom of the dam. (Physics? Where we\u2019re going, we don\u2019t need physics!)<\/p>\n Being a criminal mastermind though, Dante has foreseen even this eventuality and activates a series of explosive charges attached to the dam. We don\u2019t see what happens next, though it seems inevitable that Dom and Little B will be buried alive by the falling debris unless a guardian angel were to swoop in and save them\u2026<\/p>\n That\u2019s not quite the end for Fast X, however \u2013 before the closing credits, we check in one last time with Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) and Cypher (Charlize Theron) who have formed an uneasy alliance after finding themselves prisoners at one of the Agency\u2019s top-secret black sites, this one located in Antarctica.<\/p>\n Though the pair are able to escape captivity, they appear stranded in the middle of a frozen wilderness, until the ice erupts and an enormous underwater vessel emerges. Its captain? None other than Gisele Yashar (Gal Gadot).<\/p>\n Gisele had been presumed dead since the events of Fast & Furious 6<\/a> (2013), when she fell from the back of a Range Rover travelling at high speed, but here becomes the latest character in the franchise to stage a miraculous resurrection, following the trend set by Letty \u2013 apparently killed in Fast & Furious<\/a> (2009) only to return with amnesia two films later \u2013 and Han \u2013 who originally met his \u2018end\u2019 in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift<\/a> (2006) before re-entering the fold, alive and well, in F9.<\/p>\n Han\u2019s own return to the land of the living might offer a clue as to how Gisele is still breathing \u2013 F9 revealed that Mr. Nobody (Kurt Russell), the original head of the Agency, had helped fake Han\u2019s death<\/a>, while also revealing that Gisele had previously been an acquaintance of Nobody\u2019s.<\/p>\n Presumably, then, some similar trickery was performed by Nobody to allow Gisele to stage her demise. (Why did none of the Fast family, not even Han, seek to recover her body after she \u2018died\u2019? We\u2019re sure Fast & Furious 11 will have a credible answer for that one\u2026)<\/p>\n Gisele\u2019s return sets up a reunion with her still-grieving boyfriend Han \u2013 providing he himself survived the felling of his plane \u2013 and her surprise appearance brings the film to a close, though one final sequence does play out in the middle of the credits. Here\u2019s our take on that stupendously exciting Fast X post-credits scene<\/a>\u2026<\/span><\/p> ![\""Fast\"](\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/05\/fast-x-dam-7fccee2.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413"\" "\\"\"fast-x-dam\"\\"\/")
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