F9 Review: Outdated and ill-informed

Medrine Nyambura
3 min readJun 26, 2021

Fast and Furious 9

.Did you know there were nine of them? I watched the first one as a pre-teen and got left behind by the beautiful carnage that is the franchise. There are nine but there are also twelve of them. The number is not the focus here but the first one was released June 23rd in 2001.

That is just about all I know about the franchise. Here is an outdated and very ill-informed review of the movie. How much money do they have? For context being in transition makes finances a bit of a sour topic but that is not even the motivation for this concern. How many cars are destroyed in this movie? I am literally saving for my first car, so I felt pain with every crash. Can you take one of those home?

Another question, how many people are in this movie? Also Han died? How long has it been?

Cardi B makes a guest appearance as a leader of an all female force. Good on you girl, make that money.

Hey Hollywood when you are ready to give credit to the Bible for helping to direct epic scenes in movies, we church girls are happy to guide you. I appreciated the Samson reference. Good visual for Mel Gibson.

I got a few of the cultural references like Han Solo, Lucas Skywalker and Yoda. Thanks to hanging out with 22 year olds. Oh God! I am almost thirty and I just opened my first medium article. I have failed.

That’s a lie. I failed when Tik Tok was too much for my bones. Thank you Big Pharma for supplements.

I really like Tyrese in this movie. He is himself. Ludacris is fly 👀 He is a beautiful man to look at and we the audience appreciate it. Umm also Dominic Toretto’s son was in the movie. Very smart. That is a good credit to have on IMDB.

John Cena. Whoever did wardrobe did you justice (for us). Beautifull man you are. I like his character and how he feels in a scene.

There was a line in the movie, ‘Rich spoilt brats run the world.’

That hurt me a lot . My country is run by a rich spoilt brat and my do they throw a tantrum. Learn from us and do better.

My despondence from the reminder that I do not run this world was quickly nursed by Tyrese comment on ‘two guys from the hood being in space.’ Yes we can all do it. That is a lie.

Speaking of space, for my oldies, there is a song called Astronaut in the Ocean from 2019 but I just learned about it. Thinking of their outfits reminded me of this song that I had to Google to know that the talented gentleman is called Masked Wolf. Love the pun.

F9 has a good number of women in the cast which is good to see. How do we get Viola Davis in this franchise?

Go watch the Fast and Furious Saga. What else are you going to do? The outside just opened so why not start with a bang. Literally. A few reviewers on YouTube have hated on the movie. Honestly, I am too excited to be outside I could watch a sloth climbing a hammock on a big screen.

It’s a nice movie. Take someone or go alone. I don’t care.

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