SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains mild spoilers for Fast X. If you have not yet seen the film, proceed at your own risk!
Jason Momoa’s Dante Reyes in Fast X is far and away the most charismatic and thrilling villain we’ve seen thus far in the Fast & Furious franchise, and that’s primarily because he is completely out of his mind. His motives are familiar (he wants revenge against the protagonists for the death of his father), but he doesn’t just aim to kill Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto and his family; as a flamboyant sadist, he wants to make them all suffer and have fun while doing it. It’s clear that the guy has a screw loose from his first non-flashback scene in the new blockbuster – but no part of the film sums up the character’s personality than watching him raid the bank accounts of the heroes while hanging out in the sun painting the toenails of a pair of corpses.
