The propellant of a "Fast" movie has increased in structure but unraveled in many ways in story. It has becomes at times, vignettes of its past mythology slowing down just once in a while for patriarch Vin Diesel to wax about family. However the bombast, despite a lack of reality, still can play for fun demolition.

The context of "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves" is an ode on loss wrapped in an element of fantasy. The movie is wonderfully cast and has a light tone that is very hard to walk in this type of genre.

A franchise like "The Fast & The Furious" going into its 9th film has to have some fun at its own expense but not play too outside the box. The issue is it is hard to take it seriously at all and yet it demands at times a gravitas. It is not about overcoming odds. it is just about wanting that adrenaline of life.