S4E34: Fast Five

Kill James Bond!

November, Abigail, and Devon

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv & Film:film Reviews

4.7 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

We've reached the fulcrum of the Fast and Furious series, the film that marks the departure from car-centric films of the 2000s in favour of the gigantic muscle men best friend heists of the 2010s. A real marmite movie, our opinions on whether or not this was 'Awesome' split along entirely predictable lines. ----- Check out friend of the show Mattie's new book Simplicity here, or wherever fine graphic novels are sold! ----- FREE PALESTINE - With the ceasefire in full effect, the media has returned to ignoring the daily atrocities in Gaza. My friend Ahmed still needs to feed his family and afford medicine. Anything you can kick in would be hugely appreciated.https://chuffed.org/project/150817-please-help-ahmed-and-his-family-get-food-drink-and-medicine And these are some more general links you can support collective efforts with! -The Palestinian Communist Youth Union is doing a food and water effort, and is part of the official communist party of Palestinehttps://www.gofundme.com/f/to-preserve-whats-left-of-humanity-global-solidarity -Water is Life, a water distribution project in North Gaza affiliated with an Indigenous American organization and the Freedom Flotillahttps://www.waterislifegaza.org/ -Vegetable Distribution Fund, which secured and delivers fresh veg, affiliated with Freedom Flotilla alsohttps://www.instagram.com/linking/fundraiser?fundraiser_id=1102739514947848 ----- WEB DESIGN ALERT Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/----- Kill James Bond is hosted by November Kelly, Abigail Thorn, and Devon. You can find us at https://killjamesbond.com , as well as on our Bluesky and X.com the everything app account

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Kill James Bond.
0:19.9	I am November Kelly.
0:21.2	I am joined as always by my friends Abigail Thorne and Devon.
0:24.7	Hello.
0:25.9	Galbunga.
0:27.0	It's Fast 5.
0:28.1	It's Fast 5.
0:28.9	It's Fast 5.
0:29.8	Okay, so this, and this is the turn, unfortunately.
0:33.7	This is the point where the series crystallizes into the form that it will
0:37.7	take through to the end, which is... Hamburger Shonen. But this is the worst one yet.
0:44.1	Big guys doing big heists. The cars are barely relevant. They're just in it. That was the part I didn't
0:49.9	like. There's a part where they have an illegal street racer and they just do it off screen.
0:53.3	And I'm like, that was... It's so fucked. That was the best bit. Come on. Yeah, yeah. I think it's really crucial, right, having seen
1:00.2	these films in order to know that they began as point break, right? Which is, yeah, right?
1:06.0	We investigate a subculture, right? Tokyo Drift, we investigate a subculture, brackets, Japan, right?
1:12.6	And now we're here into the start of the bloat, like me turning 30, right?
1:17.6	Where it's like, you just know it's downhill from here, and it's just like the problems that are going to get worse are sort of like settling in.
1:25.6	It's so, it's like Oceans Avengers.
1:28.1	It's just, it's slop.
1:30.0	Slop is the word.
1:31.0	This is heist season, though.
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