I would agree with all of that. It was pretty pure escapism - but lots of ridiculous fun. Had to laugh when they got to Samoa.....which looks very little like Hawaii ( I've been to both of them). Anyway, it was funny and dumb enough to be a good time. I think it shows us the brand power of FF movies and the Rock - but also that the FF series was built around Vin Diesel, and not having him appear diminishes that power a little ( although not as much as having a Bourne movie that doesn't feature Jason Bourne ).
A satisfying popcorn flick - but a notch or 2 down from Tom Cruise's MI series, IMO nothing beats good live action and (relatively) cgi-free stunts.
IMO I preferred it to FF 7 and 8 because it was completely tongue in cheek - neither the Rock nor Statham at any time looked like they were taking the film seriously - and a few times Statham nearly turned into his Rick Ford character from "Spy" - now that's a character who needs his own film, ****ing hilarious !
Cheers.