Barcelona’s Basílica de la Sagrada Família shouldn’t really exist, having been beset by problem after problem over its almost century-and-a-half-long construction process. Key figures died, money ran out, it exhausted supplies of its original Montjuïc sandstone and had to be cobbled together from a patchwork of other materials. At several points during its creation, construction had to be paused while architects waited for the technology necessary to finish it to be created.
I’m telling you this because – and do stop me if you think this is too grandiose a comparison – Fast X, the most recent film in the Fast and Furious franchise, is the cinematic equivalent of the Basílica de la Sagrada Família.
