"Barcelona's Basilica de la Sagrada Familia shouldn't really exist, having been beset by problem after problem over its almost century-and-a-half-long construction process. Key figures died, money ran out, it exhausted supplies of its original Montjuic sandstone and had to be cobbled together from a patchwork of other materials. At several points during its creation, construction had to be paused while architects waited for the technology necessary to finish it to be created."
"I'm telling you this because and do stop me if you think this is too grandiose a comparison Fast X, the most recent film in the Fast and Furious franchise, is the cinematic equivalent of the Basilica de la Sagrada Familia. Which isn't to say that I like it, because I don't. But I have developed an unhealthy fascination with it, to the extent that it's easily the film I've watched most often over the last couple of years."
"On a moment-to-moment basis, Fast X is incredible. A giant spherical nuclear bomb crashes through Rome. A car becomes a cannon. There's a missile attack on a bridge. A dam explodes. Charlize Theron smashes up about 400 baddies at the same time. Jason Momoa plays the villain, aiming for the Joker, but instead hitting the exact halfway point between his characters in Game of Thrones and"
Barcelona's Basilica de la Sagrada Familia endured nearly a century and a half of interruptions, material shortages, deaths, funding crises, and technological pauses during construction. Fast X functions as a cinematic analogue: structurally chaotic, patched together, and beset by problems yet strangely magnetic. The film contains frequent, spectacular set pieces—a spherical nuclear bomb crashing through Rome, a car turned into a cannon, missile attacks, dam explosions, and large-scale hand-to-hand combat. Familiarity with the wider Fast and Furious franchise affects comprehension. Jason Momoa portrays a villain that gestures toward the Joker while inhabiting a midpoint between his Game of Thrones persona and other archetypes.
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