Fast X isn’t worth the $25 USD it currently costs to buy it on most sites.

This is so painful to write as a diehard fan who’s seen every movie at least twenty times, owns them all on Blu-ray, and will one day write the Letty/Dom criminal romcom prequel we all deserve but I must say it… that movie is ass.

The writing is worse than usual, the twists make no sense, and the cast is bloated with useless chaff attached. (Pete Davidson’s appearance was so not necessary.)

And that’s before we get to the fact that Jason Momoa plays an apparently queer coded villain that’s as annoying as Jared Leto’s Joker… God.

The thing about queer coded villains is that when queer people make them, they’re amazing and wonderful and play to our strengths and knowledge of our old histories/new experiences. When cishets make them… they usually are a bunch of weird stereotypes and tropes stuffed in an envelope and then forced under the crack of a door.

And what’s wild is that Momoa’s Dante isn’t even the worst thing about this film? The film itself is just… worse than I could’ve ever expected.

Are there really like… two more of them coming?

Sad and scary if true.

Reading Recommendations

Making Things Perfectly Queer: Interpreting Mass Culture

Flaming Classics Queering the Film Canon

Queer Baiting, Coding, Reading, and Representation: A Pint-Sized Primer