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Another interesting thing about these movies is that they’re really stupid. I say that with nothing but admiration. Complex world-building? Pious power-and-responsibility sermonizing? Character development? I CAN’T HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF THIS SOUPED-UP ENGINE REVVING. No action franchise is more up-front about how all it wants to do is zoom-zoom-zoom-zoom and take your money; story- and characterwise, no franchise does more with less. So how’s this one? It’s great. It’s crack. It gets you really high. It’s automatically at least 17 percent less fun than Fast Five because Fast Five was an Ocean’s-on-taurine heist film and this one’s a Die Hard–esque gotta-stop-the-terrorists drama, but it’s no less crammed with twisted metal pirouetting in the air and people with special skills saying “I got this!” into walkie-talkies.

Maybe too full. Lin has called this one his “Robert Altman ensemble piece,” and as completely ridiculous statements go, that one is pretty accurate.