Film Review: "Fast X" is saved from a mad dash into numbness by a delicious Jason Momoa.

There is only one correct answer to the question of when exactly the "Fast & Furious" franchise jumped the shark: as the Pontiac Fiero rocketed into outer space.

The floating car in the ninth installment, tasked with bumping a satellite, was weightless and broke every physical law. It was the very symbol of how bloated and crazy the once-plucky series had become. After that, there was really no way to go down.

But we have come to 10, part of an arranged series of movies at long last bidding farewell. " Quick X" is, fortunately, shackled to Earth's gravity — in some cases questionably, it should be said — yet it has become practically camp, as though it took in its very own lot exhaust.

The seeds for a new story in "Fast X" come from the fifth movie, "Fast Five," which came out in 2011. In a noteworthy second five films prior, Vin Diesel's Dom Toretto destroyed a trouble maker and his group on a scaffold in Rio de Janeiro. We were unaware at the time that the villain had a son who survived and now vows vengeance years later. That's all. The plot is that.

Having said that, "Fast X" is ridiculously silly and hilariously entertaining. It consists solely of Wile E. Coyote material, ridiculous stunts involving insane G-forces, and everything that appears to be on fire. There are components of "Mission: Impossible, 007, and John Wick, as if the action films were merging in some way. But here's a disclaimer: It pitches to an end without a result, a more risky trick than any in the actual films.

Without Jason Momoa, who plays the bad guy's son as a full-on flamboyant psycho who licks a knife clean after killing someone and paints the toenails of a dead victim as he displays the corpse in a demented garden party, the movie wouldn't be nearly as fun. He says, "Never accept death when suffering is due."

He is a cross between Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean and Joaquin Phoenix from "The Joker." Momoa has a tendency to plan explosions, then stand on a high place and open his arms like Christ the Redeemer when the blast wave hits. The film droops when he's not in it.

Momoa is essential for the establishment's recognizable strategy of stacking perpetually stars with sufficiently not to do — this time we additionally welcome Brie Larson, Alan Ritchson, Daniela Melchior and Rita Moreno. There's even a Pete Davidson appearance.

That's in addition to regulars Tyrese Gibson, Michelle Rodriguez, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Jordana Brewster, John Cena, Jason Statham, Charlize Theron, Sung Kang, Scott Eastwood, and Helen Mirren, whose attempt at a working-class accent is hilarious once more. This is a jokester vehicle of ability. Like the Avengers movie, the film's poster features 14 characters.

Diesel, who never wears a shirt, is at the center, and he keeps being shown to be a terrible actor. It seems that he only took the Brooding 101 class in drama school. The producers normally set him up before a mass of family photographs and he gazes at them eagerly. " He will growl, "I only care about protecting the people I love."

Family — as enthusiasts of the establishment know well — is generally focal, or rather, a gothic lose idea of blood's bond made sense of with drama discourse. Toretto must protect his family at all costs, but he seems content to leave his 8-year-old son with someone else while he drag races in Rio. Are you aware of your issue? prods Momoa. " Family. You can't save all of them.

From a screenplay by veteran Justin Lin and newcomers Zach Dean and Dan Mazeau, new director Louis Leterrier takes us from Los Angeles to Antarctica, threatening much of Rome with a 20 kiloton bomb along the way, and ending in a cliffhanger at the side of a dam in Portugal. For the following installment, even more megastars are promised if you stick around for the credits.

This time, you get two brutal hand-to-hand fights, a car that smashes two helicopters and causes rush hour traffic, car bombs, large and small remote-controlled cars, cars that leap into the air like salmon, and a plane that drops a modified race car onto the highway from its belly. 

Using material from "Fast Five" necessitates delicately returning to franchise veteran Paul Walker, who passed away in 2013. In "Fast X," which reenacts the events that took place on that Rio bridge, there is old footage of Walker. It is handled calmly and with respect. Meadow, Walker's daughter, makes a cameo appearance as a flight attendant, which is a nice touch.

"Fast X" is pure popcorn lunacy with a foot in the past, a foot in the future, and a foot on the gas. Is that a lot of feet? We apologise, but you wanted logic?

The Motion Picture Association of America has given the movie "Fast X," which was released by Universal Pictures, a rating of PG-13 because of the intense sequences of violence and action, language, and some suggestive content. Time in use: 134 minutes. Three out of four stars.