The Ending Of Fast X Explained

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The end of the road has only just begun, and  "Fast X" leaves behind plenty of questions for   the next installment of the franchise to answer.  Here's what happened in all the furious action. Warning: Spoilers for "Fast X" ahead! Dominic Toretto has faced a lot of trouble in  his life, from international supercriminals to   members of his own family, but he's never faced  anyone quite like Jason Momoa's Dante Reyes,   a psychotic mastermind with a major  grudge against the Toretto crew. "I'm Dante. Enchante." Dom and his friends killed Reyes' father  and stole the family's money stash back   in "Fast Five," so Dante views Dom as  the source of all of his suffering. He   makes it his mission to make Dom suffer in kind. Dante sets to work dismantling the entire Toretto  family, and he more-or-less succeeds by the end   of the film, leaving almost everyone in some  kind of dangerous limbo. Dom himself narrowly   escapes Dante's wrath atop a dam in Portugal. He  finds himself in the water below with no means of   escape as Dante prepares to explode the whole dam  and bring it down around Dom and his son Brian. Moments before, Dom remarks that Dante's  one mistake was leaving him with a car,   but now he doesn't even have that.  It's hard to imagine how he finds   his way out of this one. We'll have to  wait until the next film to find out. John Cena's Jakob Toretto was only recently  welcomed back into the family fold after   years of estrangement and resentment. After  redeeming himself at the end of "F9," Jakob   devotes his time and considerable talent  to protecting Little Brian at all costs,   taking him to a secret hideout and then  trying to help him escape with Dom. "'Sup?"  "Uncle Jakob?" "Your dad sent me." It's clear throughout that Jakob is  also still carrying a lot of guilt over   his previous actions. He wants to be a good  uncle and a good brother to prove that he's   earned where he is now. That desire, and the  guilt behind it, culminates late in the film,   when Jakob realizes that he's lost Brian  to Dante and only has one move left:   Sacrificing himself so Dom can get to his son.  Despite Dom's protests, he goes down in a blaze   of glory, taking out Dante's men and clearing  a path for his big brother to keep fighting. The film is moving really fast at this  point, so there's little time to mourn Jakob,   or to even confirm that he's actually  dead. It seems like he's probably gone,   but the fallout of his sacrifice  is very much yet to come. Michelle Rodriguez's Letty Ortiz is sort of the  odd woman out of the Toretto crew after the job in   Rome goes very wrong. It makes her the last major  fighting chance the family has against Dante.   Letty gets picked up by the Agency very early  on, and she's taken to a black site where she's   forced to share a cell with Charlize Theron's  Cipher, who's already had a run-in with Dante. The two women don't get along, to say the least,  but Letty realizes Cipher has a way out of the   black site. When she gets word from Brie Larson's  Tess that there's hope for the family yet,   Letty decides to team up with Cipher for an  escape. What she thinks will be a quick way out,   though, eventually leads to the reveal that  she's stuck in Antarctica. We leave Letty   alongside her former enemy, with no real idea  of what's happened to the rest of her family. Dante's attack in Rome  throws the family into chaos,   and the Toretto crew spends the rest  of "Fast X" divided. But at least Tej,   Roman, Ramsey, and Han have each other. With  few resources, thanks to Dante's hacking,   they hop around the world in search of weapons  they can use to head out and help Dom. They   finally get a planeload of support that will  drop them right into the fight in Portugal. What they didn't count on was  a last-minute betrayal. Aimes,   who had been the acting director of The  Agency and was supposedly helping Dom,   reveals himself as Dante's longtime ally just in  time to hop up with a missile launcher and shoot   down the plane. The last we see of Tej, Roman,  Ramsey, and Han, they're running for cover in   the back of the plane. The plane crashes around  the side of a mountain and bursts into flames. The back of that plane was loaded with all  kinds of cool tech they could use to escape,   and if Han's very existence  has taught us anything,   it's that Toretto crew members are pretty hard  to kill. So odds are we'll see them all again. It's not clear how Aimes managed to get to  such a significant post within The Agency,   but Mr. Nobody is in hiding, and Little Nobody is  seriously injured in the Rome incident, so he's   the man left in charge. Tess tries to fight him  on it, but Aimes' standing with the organization   is such that she can't usurp his authority or stop  his initial efforts to take down the Toretto crew. Aimes later endears himself to Dom, then  even later doubles back and betrays him.   It turns out that Aimes has been working  alongside Dante for a full decade,   ever since the heist in "Fast Five," and  his presence in The Agency was the leg up   that Dante needed to achieve his goals. He  may have compromised the whole organization. Dante Reyes spends a lot of time talking about  suffering, and that his father was killed 10   years earlier. By the end of the movie, he seems  to have achieved his goal of squeezing out every   ounce of suffering from Dom that  he possibly can. Every member of   the Toretto crew is either apparently  dead, missing, or in dire mortal peril. "I am the man who's going to break  your family, piece by piece." So, does that mean Dante won? We know the  long answer to that question is some version   of "No," because there's still at least one more  movie to go after this one. But for the moment,   there's definitely an air of victory here,  if only because it's going to take what's   left of the Toretto crew time to pick up  the pieces. The big question, then, is:   Will Dante let all this winning go  to his head and make a big mistake? Jason Statham's Deckard Shaw is only in  "Fast X" briefly, when Han decides to go   to him for help in securing resources to  keep up the fight against Dante. But his   quick appearance is quite significant. For  one, it's the first time the pair have met   since Shaw seemingly killed Han years ago. It also  reveals something even bigger about Dante's fight. "Let's dig some graves." While in Shaw's hideout, Ramsey discovers that  the money Dante stole from the crew's accounts   has been used to hire mercenaries from around  the world and send them after everyone who's   ever helped the Toretto crew do anything.  That means dozens of people are now targets,   including Shaw's own mother, Queenie, who tried  to help Dom get out of Rome earlier in the film. With his mother in the crosshairs, Shaw  springs into action, loads up his gear,   and heads out in hopes of keeping Queenie safe.  He's not part of the main fight against Dante, but   he is heading into something dramatic and probably  very bloody, leaving us to wonder how that fight   goes. We'll just have to see what the next  film will reveal about Shaw's personal mission. Several new faces emerge throughout "Fast X,"  including Tess, Mr. Nobody's daughter who believes   in Dom no matter what the rest of the Agency  says. There's also Daniela Melchior's Isabel,   a Brazilian street racer who also happens to have  ties to Dom's past. She's the sister of Elena,   Dom's former lover and Little Brian's  mother, who died in "Fate of the   Furious." Isabel's ties to the Toretto  family push her to help Dom fight Dante,   and Dom's instinct to protect his family  pushes him to protect Isabel at all costs. By the end of Dom's adventures in Rio,  Tess is seriously wounded and Isabel   is very nearly killed by Dante. Dom makes  the decision to put the two women together,   asking Isabel to drive Tess to a hospital,  leaving them both seemingly safe from Dante's   influence for now. So far, they're relatively  minor allies, but thanks to the mercenaries   looking for everyone aligned with Toretto,  they're now in the crosshairs once again. Mia Toretto, played by Jordana Brewster,  has been in and out of her family's battles   in recent years, spending a lot of time  off in hiding with her husband Brian and   their children. In "Fast X," she hangs around to  visit with her Abuelita, played by Rita Moreno,   in Los Angeles. She then watches Little  Brian while Dom and Letty head to Rome.   When The Agency comes for them both, Mia  works to fight them off alongside Jakob,   who takes Brian and tells Mia  to head back to her own family. By the end of the film, as far as we know,  Mia is safe with her husband and children,   back in hiding while the fight goes on without  her. But we also know that Dante has sent hired   killers after the entire family, and  while Mia is good at staying hidden,   she might not be able to stay hidden forever.  Once she hears about what's happening with Dom,   though, she might not want to stay  hidden, so don't be surprised if   she pops up again in the next movie,  ready to fight alongside her brother. For years, Mr. Nobody was a crucial ally to  the Toretto family, a leader with seemingly   infinite resources who saw enough potential  in Dom and his crew to shield them from the   fallout of their missions. His protege, Little  Nobody, picked up that baton after Mr. Nobody's   injury and remained a major supporter of the  family while Mr. Nobody went into hiding. Now, thanks to Dante's machinations, both Nobodies  are out of commission. Mr. Nobody is gone,   Little Nobody is injured, and The Agency is in  the hands of a turncoat. So Dom and his family   have lost some critical support at the  time when they need it most. That said,   neither of the Nobodies is dead, and  they got to leadership positions in   an international spy agency because they're  smart, strategic, and know people. It wouldn't   be surprising at all to see one or both of  them come roaring back in the next film. Cipher begins "Fast X" in a pretty  low place. Dante tracked her down,   blackmailed all of her men, and  used her own resources against her,   leaving her nearly dead and in the hands of The  Agency. But while Cipher's been down before,   she's never been down for long, and she  reveals that she has an escape plan. "She's a monster to battle with, I gotta say." At the Agency black site in Antarctica, Cipher  reveals that she's not out of options after all,   and summons a submarine like the one she  commanded in "Fate of the Furious" up out   of the ice. That's impressive enough, but  the real jaw-dropping reveal is that she's   working with none other than Gal Gadot's Gisele  Yashar, who seemingly died in "Fast & Furious   6." Gisele's presence after years away  raises a whole new round of questions,   including how Han might react when he sees her  again. Cipher is clearly still full of surprises,   and those surprises might just  force Dom to team up with her. Dante's war will clearly keep going  into the next film. It's a big story,   so it keeps going after the credits roll. In the film's mid-credits sequence,  Dante targets another former Toretto   ally who played a major role in the death of his  father: Luke Hobbs, played by Dwayne Johnson,   who delivered the fatal shot to Hernan  Reyes in "Fast Five." Hobbs discovers   that Dante has tracked him down, and hears a  message that "the devil" is coming for him. Naturally, Hobbs doesn't back down from the  fight. The question now is how his fight with   Dante will connect to Dom's, and vice versa. The  last time we saw them together within the films,   they were allies who'd just finished a  mission that reunited the family. But   Hobbs has been off on his own for a while, so  it's hard to tell just how close they'll get. Dom and Mia's grandmother is only present  in "Fast X" for a few minutes early on,   but she leaves a lasting impression. Like Dom,  his grandmother has endured tremendous loss,   and she's learned through that loss to value and  protect the family that she has left. For Dom,   the fight is much closer, much more tangible,  even when all he's doing is teaching Little B   to drive. So when his grandmother tells  him that with his family by his side,   he can do anything, that really means something. Dom clings to the idea that if he sticks  with the ones he loves and has faith,   they can survive what's coming for them,  no matter how bad it gets. We don't get to   see how he deals with the latest round of  losses right away, since the film ends on   a cliffhanger. But we do know where Dom's focus  is and what he values, because Abuelita told us.
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Length: 9min 43sec (583 seconds)
Published: Fri May 19 2023
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