Other mistake: Throughout the entire chase scene at the end, the vault creates sparks on the road. Yet when they get to the bridge, no sparks appear. This cannot be due to the vault being empty at this point, as the vault itself is 10 tonnes, as mentioned earlier in the film. (01:49:00)
Fast Five (2011)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Justin Lin
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Tyrese Gibson, Jordana Brewster, Ludacris
Dom and Brian hook up their cars to a safe filled with Reyes' money, dragging it through the streets and destroying several cars in the process. On a bridge, the safe crashes and Dom manages to launch his car through the air and it smashes into Reyes' car. Hobbs shoots Reyes(You figure out how he survived that) and gives Brian and Dom a 24 hour headstart on the condition that they leave the money behind. After they leave, Hobbs sees that the safe is empty.(During the chase, they switched the safe out for an empty one) Dom leaves a bag of money for Vince's wife and son. Brian and a newly pregnant Mia settle down at a beach somewhere. During the credits, Monica(From 2 Fast 2 Furious)gives Hobbs a file on a hijacking in Berlin. He opens the file and sees a picture of Lettie...
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Question: When Hobbs realises that Dom and Brian left him with an empty vault, Hobbs has a flashback of Leo and Santos loading the real vault onto a truck. My question: was that really a flashback (did he really see it take place and forget?) or was it like Dom's image of Letty's death when he and Mia are at the crash site in Fast Four and not 100% accurate, since he didn't know what Letty's killer looked like yet?
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Answer: Hobbs doesn't see that scene, though he probably does guess part of what happened - ie. that they swapped the vaults. The scene is played as a reveal for us, the audience, to show us how the vault that is supposed to be full of money is now suddenly empty.
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