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Fast Five is One of TIME’s Top 10 Movies of 2011
By Gilbert Cruz | @gilbertcruz | December 7, 2011 | +

No, seriously. On our list of the best movies of 2011, chosen by Richard Corliss — our film critic of 31 years — the fourth sequel to 2001′s The Fast & The Furious comes in at number 10.

He explains why thusly:

This list is short on sensitive indie dramas, heavy on mainstream mayhem, but it was that kind of year. The big boys — Hollywood technicians, from FX gurus to stunt choreographers — used their tools with more craft and cojones than the Sundance auteurs. Fast Five, fifth in the Fast & Furious series starring Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, is a live-action movie with so much whirling tumult, so many moments of low genius, that it plays like an animated car-toon. The dialogue, characterizations and acting are irrelevant to the success of this first great film of the post-human era. As if recalling the epochal heist in Edwin S. Porter’s 1903 The Great Train Robbery and, a decade later, the auto carnage of Mack Sennett’s Keystone Kops, speeding down the streets of a new metropolis known as Los Angeles, director Justin Lin goes back to basics — with another train robbery, and vehicular violence in police vehicles on the streets of Rio — just souped up and stripped down like a stock car in a death race. A carnival of roguish heroes and pretty girls, car chases and cliffhangers, Fast Five is as much a tribute as The Artist or Hugo to the cinema’s primal thrills.

http://entertainment.time.com/2011/12/07...s-of-2011/

Detective Dee & Rango also made the list.