“The Fast and the Furious” may have started as a street-level crime story, but as the franchise has progressed, they have essentially become science-fiction or superhero movies without any kind of tether to the real world in the slightest. Even with “2 Fast 2 Furious,” directed by the late, great John Singleton, it was stylistically taking its car antics into cartoon land, and by the time we get to “Fast Five,” all bets are off.
Our first of two tank sequences from the “Fast Saga” comes from “Fast & Furious 6,” in which Luke Evans’ Owen Shaw unleashes a tank on the franchise’s main crew in a high-speed highway chase sequence. In the world of “Fast & Furious,” this scene makes total sense, but it could never happen in real life. Just from the introduction of the tank, accuracy is out the window. The tank makes its way into the chase by bursting out of a truck that has been carrying it.
Tanks are massive, and when your vehicle weighs a ton (or dozens of tons in the case of tanks), acceleration is going to take some time. Even in your normal car, you aren’t going to be able to go from zero to 60 mph in a millisecond, yet in “Fast & Furious 6,” a gigantic tank can do that with no problem, not to mention keep up with a caravan of high-performance muscle cars. A very fun action sequence that could never happen.
