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7.04.09 # Review # 9 Comments
Vin Diesel. Was there ever an actor crying out to be in a Michael Bay movie more than Vin Diesel? Even his name is pure Brainless Bayhem! But alas, the promising all action hero of Saving Private Ryan, Pitch Black and The Iron Giant fame made some really bad career choices and instead of appearing in summer blockbusters like Transformers, Diesel-stand-in Tyrese Gibson gets to instead. So, to redress the balance somewhat, here we are, back where it all (sort of) began: The Fast and the Furious, or, this time around, Fast & Furious.
First off, yes, it’s a lazy title. They clearly want to play down the inferior follow-ups to what was a popular, if critically dismissed, car movie, so they couldn’t have called it The Fast and the Furious 4. What it should rightly be called, although it would be very confusing, is The Fast and the Furious 2. Make no mistake – this is the first and only sequel to The Fast and the Furious, the other two movies were spin-offs.
Fast & Furious opens with Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) behind the wheel during an impressive heist/car chase combo similar to those in the first film, a chase in which the life of Toretto’s girlfriend Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) is seriously endangered. Following this Toretto decides to abandon Letty for her own protection, and so that she no longer has to live life as a fugitive, only for Letty to be fatally attacked in his absence, which makes him furious. Thus, having lived as a fugitive for five years in the Dominican Republic, Toretto returns to the United States hell-bent on revenge.
Toretto is soon reunited with Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker), the FBI agent that facilitated his escape at the end of the first film, who just so happens to be on the trail of the drug trafficker Toretto is after – a drug trafficker hiring illegal street racers. Those contrivances should tell you everything you need to know about the plot – it’s an excuse to get them into their cars! That said, the plot provides motivation for the characters, which elevates the chases beyond senseless action, and the ambivalent relationship that the leads have is maintained. There’s some cringe-worthy dialogue, and some of the character moments feel forced, but you only endure/enjoy those for maybe fifteen minutes at a time, and when they return to the chases, nothing else matters…
The first film was a hit (inspiring videogames and rip-off movies) for a reason, it was about girls and cars and violence and cars – it was cool. Fast & Furious is no different. More of the same? Yeah, absolutely, that’s kind of the point, see title. As it stands it’s the second best movie in the series, and it should be the last. Wait, what? Oh…
C+
I went to see the movie simply because I thought it would be different or better than the original and I was not disappointed at all.
Really nice… i loved the movie …
this film was a complete waste of time. Story is weak, doesn’t make sense since dominic is a macho man pullin of heists, yes he has a gf bt revenge doesn’t play so well for a guy who can’t cry or have emotions, fighting emotion is different and even that didn’t work in this film. The director tried it but failed misserably.
The REASON the first one was so popular was that it had only what young racers wanted, fast cars, women, danger. not a stupid love/revenge story with barely and nice cars or new ones. compare this to tokyo drift, it was amazing in that we got to have a look inside japan street racing, drifting, tonnes of cars, girls, music, amazing body work. This film has about 5 seconds of a “few” rides, women here n there and a crap ass soundtrack das not even in english most of it.
if this were me, i would have continued from tokyo drift with diesel and the other guy, brought in paul walker and also tyrese, and then have letty and a few others. These are the faces which brought all the fast n furious films to where they are. Each I feel was unique in their own way. THis is the first that may have tried to continue from the true “original” but us fans would rather have a spectular fourth in the series with a “mash-up” of everytihng in say races somewhere in europe. Could you imagine fast n furious through streets of berlin, london, amsterdam? with vin diesel the hardman, tyrese, ludacris, michelle, paul walker. that it what this film should have been instead is a poor attempt. Diesels films lately have be horrible, babylon a.d, now this? where did the same guy who did pitch black and saving pvt ryan go?
just my opinion here..sorry if i offended you. (p.s. i probably have tonnes of spelling errors, but lets be real, im not going to copy this to word just to make sure its perfect)
I hated this movie…im a die hard fan of the series and the expeirence was horrible.
@majikall, i absolutely agree with you! Fast n Furious 4 was alright 4 me, well it actually kinda sucked since the actions and stuff going on in the movie were like “MEH” to me……….they were boring, not intense and crap compared to Tokyo Drift.
The movie is the best thing i have ever seen
not ive not even seen it lol!
its a well good film seen it 5 times
Overall in my own opinion, I found it a pretty good movie, but it could have been better. I guess what I liked about the movie most was the Chevelle SS, the Torino, The F-bomb Camaro and the Dodge Chager that got brought back in the movie that I liked most about in the movie. Anything else I really didn’t mind for. I wish they would have done something differently about showing more of the F-bomb Camaro and the Dodge Charger didn’t seem no where near as great as the first one, but I still love the car, period. The story line was kinda wacked, and kinda lost me until I watched it a couple of times. Didn’t get what the purpose of most of it. Deep down I was expecting something far more different than how this turned out. But I still give it a five star for trying and still making a interesting movie that I like to watch here and than, but the first and tokyo drift was probably their best movies. hopefully they will make another that are just as great, but as usual with any movie, they make the first one great and becomes a hit, and making more just f***s up their rep.
it was good
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