The Transporter movies are good at what they do, letting a star be a star and getting from set piece to set piece, and the Norton Hulk movie is also perfectly efficient at what it sets out to do as an early Marvel flick before the formula settled in.

Like you say, I think there's a good chance the larger Fast machine can maintain whatever it's dumb bullshit is and it's not like Fast 9 was exactly a return to the Drift/4/5/6 heyday of the franchise Lin made his name on so...

Until we see a trailer, this isn't as significant a change as it reads on paper to me. *shrug*

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