Of all the films released this year, none will benefit more from low expectations than “Fast & Furious.”

The bar is not necessarily set low; it’s more like someone lost the bar and nobody cared to look for it anymore. It’s about fast cars.

Dom Turretto (Vin Diesel) is back to settle a grudge against the enigmatic drug dealer Braga. Braga happens to be the target of an FBI investigation that Dom’s old frenemy Brian O’Connor (Paul Walker) happens to be part of.

It’d be easy to pull apart director Justin Lin’s second go at the franchise (he directed “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift”) because of its poor script, bad acting and gigantic plot holes.

But that’d be disingenuous to the experience. Anybody who buys a ticket to see this film already knows what to expect. It’s about fast cars going fast.

Warning: anyone who gets motion sickness from movies like “Cloverfield” should either avoid “Fast & Furious” or sit in the very back of the theater.

If there is a cinematography technique that can make a person dizzy, odds are it’s used in this film.

The action is fast, but a little lacking in fury. Too many of the action sequences induce déjà vu of previous franchise entries. Often, they are so familiar that it seems like reused footage.

An injection of creativity in this movie would have helped, but “Fast & Furious” is not without its “Oh, damn” moments.

That said, “Fast & Furious” lives up to its namesake. Beautiful women frequent the scenes, or at least their bodies do — their faces aren’t shown much at all.

Unsurprisingly, the cars are beautiful as well. President Barack Obama and General Motors would probably disapprove, though. American muscle cars are represented well, but most of the modern makes are imports.

One thing nobody will like in “Fast & Furious” is the dialogue. The dialogue sounds like it was written by 14-year-olds, and mostly consists of cool-sounding, melodramatic lines or set-ups to those lines. The set-ups are so obvious that predicting the suave response becomes unavoidable.

Even with bad dialogue, “Fast & Furious” could be a start to something more promising: a Bond-like series.

This is just speculation of course. But this franchise doesn’t rely on star power.

The previous entry, “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift,” featured all-new characters and grossed $63 million in the U.S.

An action movie franchise that doesn’t rely on a Hollywood leading man could be potentially interesting.

After all, the car chase is a staple of the action movie template. It only makes sense that it could be the focus.

Reach the reporter at cogino@asu.edu.