Dont Act Like You Dont Know Fast and Furious
Fast Cars And Those Who Bulldoze Them
I had but come from a rather desultory twenty-four hour period at the movies where I saw the sequel Fast & Furious to this moving-picture show. I had written in the review that y'all probably would accept had to see the first picture show in order to fully appreciate what was going on. Wouldn't you know it, the FX channel was dissemination this tonight.
I was partially correct, only this motion-picture show had a flake more plot to information technology and didn't concentrate on just the special effects and the violence which was served up fast and furious. Vin Diesel is a criminal who races cars as an avocation and does hijackings for a living. The FBI wants him, the LAPD wants him and Paul Walker is an LAPD cop gone underground to become him.
Walker takes his consignment quite literally and part of getting undercover is under some blankets with Diesel fuel'due south sis Jordana Brewster and getting it on with the young lady. But he also proves his driving abilities to Diesel fuel.
Diesel fuel'south racing rivals are some Asian gangbangers headed by Rick Yune and Walker would dearly like to pin something on them. Notwithstanding it's Diesel his superiors want and it'southward Diesel they will have come what may.
Paul Walker compromised his effectiveness as an hugger-mugger agent thoroughly in this film. In fact at the starting time of the sequel it is remarked that he's lucky to still be holding a job. Makes for some rather unbelievable viewing.
Only fans of fast cars and those who drive them will definitely like The Fast And The Furious.
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Good race scenes elevator a fast-paced thriller
Here'southward a throwaway popcorn flick that manages to be engaging thanks to the central storyline, that old anecdote of the detective going undercover and becoming friends with the man he's supposed to exist sending to jail. The quondam, former plot is given a new spin with a fresh bandage and an interesting backdrop – illegal street racing. Given the MTV expectations, the picture is as flashy every bit you would wait thanks to director Rob Cohen, packed with pumped upwardly loud music to drive to and plenty testosterone to fill three football fields. All the same, have no misconceptions: this is a loftier-octane thrill-ride and professes to be zilch more and nothing less.
The film certainly satisfies on the activity front, with some madly exciting car chases and stunts, although at that place is a definite lull in the activeness effectually midway which is a flake surprising. Thankfully things finish off with an expertly done, extended ready-piece involving a truck and an amazing car crash to end things off (ludicrously spoilt in the trailer). Even cooler, the DVD allows you to rewatch the stunt from Eight unlike camera angles, a characteristic which has fabricated the format for me.
The characterisation is a bit thin on the basis but the two leads are strong: Paul Walker does naught incorrect as the young hugger-mugger cop, and Vin Diesel manages to exist effortlessly cool and a natural born leader again afterward PITCH Blackness. The supporting cast is boring, but it is interesting to run into Dice ANOTHER 24-hour interval's Rick Yune without all that makeup on. Not a perfect movie, simply fast-paced and interesting enough to be worth a await.
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Turn Off the Encephalon and Enjoy
The Fast and the Furious (2001)
*** (out of iv)
Brainless simply entertaining action picture show about cop Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) who goes undercover to go inside the street racing crowd then that he tin try to bring down a group hijacking semi trucks. He gets in good with Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his crew but of course they don't know his true identity. THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS isn't to exist taken serious considering if you lot did then you'd meet i flaw after another in regards to the story itself. Like a lot of summer blockbusters, this one here has had way as well many Reddish Bulls as every single scene is simply over-the-top and has some testosterone going overboard. That'south not to say this is a bad thing because there'southward no question that the film remains entertaining as a pure action movie every bit we're given some likable characters equally well as some great racing scenes. I recollect almost people are going to be coming to this thing for the fast cars and the various chases and this hither is where the motion-picture show won't permit you downwards. At that place are some terrific stunt sequences, although I will admit that a few of them announced to be too much CGI and non enough actual driving. With that said, there are some groovy ones here including the ending, which I won't spoil here. Information technology likewise doesn't hurt that we're given some characters that nosotros tin can similar even if I recall the screenplay doesn't do a couple of them justice. Both Walker and Diesel are very believable in their roles equally is Michelle Rodriquez, Jordana Brewster and even Ted Levine in his part. I will say at times it's somewhat hard to root for the main guys even though nosotros do similar this. This is specially truthful during the last sequence when the truck is being hijacked. However, THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS is a fun ride every bit long as you don't expect some serious slice of art.
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Cars expect cool and Babes look hot
Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) leads a grouping of friends and family to street race in the LA night. Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) is a cop working undercover to infiltrate his gang of suspected truck robberies. However he finds himself falling under Dominic's charisma and for Dominic'southward sister Mia (Jordana Brewster).
There is a lot of dizzy action, and unrealistic story lines. This is purely style winning over substance. The cars await cool and babes look hot. But it'south the Vin Diesel presence and Paul Walker pretty male child looks that provide the heart of this movie. The boys have amazing chemistry and the gang feels similar a real family. The story is about unnecessary.
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How information technology all began
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"The Fast and the Furious" is an American movie from 2001, so this one had its 15th ceremony already last yr. It runs for 105 minutes roughly and the script was developed overall past no less than 4 writers, the about known one being David Ayer I judge. The director is Rob Cohen and this is probably even so the most known attempt from his career. He never returned to directly any other of this franchise's films. And now I said it already that this action moving picture we have here is the very first from the extremely long-running F&F franchise that is withal very stiff today. Eight films take been there so far and 2 more are already greenlit. The franchise seems unstoppable equally even the decease of number ane lead actor (at to the lowest degree in this movie we have here) Paul Walker did not put an finish to the series. Simply we don't wanna talk about his tragic fate today, but instead focus on this picture we accept here. Tragic, or at least sad, is besides a plumbing fixtures description for the film I would say as I was not convinced by anything in here really apart from the effects perhaps. People often say that this is a movie for men, but if you take a look at the demographics here you will realize that women take actually given it an 0.iii higher rating, which of course also has to exercise with the quantity of voters. But yet, maxim this is a motion-picture show for men is is pretty inaccurate in my opinion every bit information technology would imply that men take worse taste in film than women considering honestly there is naught impressive at all about the story here, the character writing and also the performances.
I believe that in terms of depth, the story could take fit in under one 60 minutes as well. The rest is mostly "cool" quotes that add nothing really, gimmicky behavior from the characters so of course the pompous activity scenes that plow this film into a definite case of fashion over substance. The cadre story of a cop infiltrating a gang of very fast drivers in order to go show on illegal activities is nothing that hasn't been done earlier and frequently better. If you read the actors' names, you too know that honestly you tin can't expect any powerhouse performances in here. It is all subordinated to the visual side and with the casting they absolutely made sure none of the cast members is going to take any attention away from that. The epilogue is probably fifty-fifty more embarrassing than the rest and honestly, having seen none of the many many sequels, I truly hope they managed to step things up and give audiences more than pointlessly spectacular machine sequences and when they had plenty of that, they switched to motorbikes and fifty-fifty helicopters. With films similar this, at that place is of form e'er the opportunity for pointless fun, but this requires the picture to not take itself as seriously every bit this 1 here did on several occasions. I give information technology a thumbs-downward and like I said: If the following films don't show improvement, then I probably cannot be as generous as I was here with my 4/10 rating. Watch something else instead.
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Mildly entertaining stuff for teenagers – hardly heady or dramatic plenty
A gang of drivers are pulling off high speed hijacks of trucks and stealing their cargo. Hush-hush cop Brian O'Conner is sent in to infiltrate ane of the numerous street racing crews who are suspected of the crime. He wins over Dominic Toretto, the head of i such crew and begins his investigation. Withal the closer he gets to the coiffure and the more he gets into the culture, the harder information technology is to do his task.
1 weekend I was considering going to see ii Fast ii Furious merely decided to get and hire the first film before I see the sequel or else how would I be able to follow the plot and characters (oh – how optimistic I was!). So I rented this moving picture knowing that it had received amend reviews than the sequel. I expected stylish thrills and exciting high speed action with a weak plot – I was half correct. The plot was pretty weak and total of clichés – from the `going native hugger-mugger cop' to the `urban' lingo that everyone tries to speak in.
It doesn't really make much sense and information technology is a pretty fragile house of cards that comes crashing down logic-wise if you inquire too many questions. Yet, to focus on the plot here is wasting my time and yours, equally information technology matters little – this is an action movie, not a drama. I expected the activity to be slick and breathless given the speeds involved however I was really disappointed. Aside from a few directorial flourishes that brand it all announced much more exciting than it is, the automobile action is really quite normal. Fifty-fifty the climatic hijacking is done with no feeling of `border of seat thrills' although information technology looks impressive. I'grand sure many will be taken in by the sheer slickness of the thing, but I found the activeness to be soulless and lacking in whatever real excitement.
The cast are a line of urban clichés who sound similar every suburban teenager in the Western world tries to sound. Walker is banal and manages to make Vin Diesel fuel look like he's acting difficult. In fairness Diesel fuel was responsible for the but scene I constitute dramatic (where Toretto finds out who O'Conner is) past doing proficient piece of work with his confront – just for the rest he was but a tough guy lacking in the charisma needed to do a likeable bad guy. Rodriguez looks adept just is improve than this. Brewster is surprisingly patently given the amount of middle candy on display and the residuum of the support cast but mug (Ja Rule included). More than often I found myself watching the crowds who were populated with beautiful girls who were cynically edited in at every gamble to attempt and get the teenage boys coming back for more than. I'g not lament, but it is difficult not to feel a little exploited when the film has a lingering shot of ii gorgeous girls snogging for no reason other than visual titillation.
Overall, similar the cars themselves this is a very slick vehicle but I found it to be ultimately empty and soulless. The plot is meaningless and the script 1 cliche after some other. The activeness scenes are ordinary and it is a major failing of the pic that it doesn't manage to translate the thrill of 140 mph races etc onto the screen. If you want to encounter a road race done better I suggest an exciting scene in the Jackie Chan 1995 film `Pi li ho' – that I found exciting, this I just found to exist hollow and noisy.
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Diesel Show
While Paul Walker is the Protagonist (main role) in this movie, Vin Diesel steals the evidence. Autonomously from the car stunts that is. Because if you don't have good stunts, than the movie doesn't work at all. The story as information technology is, is pretty cliche, just it's nice fun and information technology's as well watchable.
Particularly because as mentioned, considering of a mesmerizing (for this genre) performance from Vin Diesel. A few flops afterwards and nobody remembered why he was called the new Action Hero, simply watching this (and of course the superb "Pitch Black") might remind you why you liked him in the beginning identify (or could be a reason to find him for a younger audience). Cars, women, insane stunts, solid/decent acting (for this genre) and nice characters ... what more could you ask for, from a movie similar this? Not much more I think :o)
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"I alive my life a quarter mile at a time."
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I'm really late to the party on this one since information technology's at present twenty years old. My reservation has always been watching a mindless action motion-picture show with over the top stunts and CGI enhanced special effects. Well, I wasn't allow down in my assumption, merely if you can pardon the pun, it was a pretty wild ride. Vin Diesel fuel is one of those bad guys you can't help rooting for, he's like Ric Flair or Randy Savage in the wrestling world. His grapheme is Dom Toretto, leader of a street racing gang, alibi me, 'squad', and the story line is built around him and undercover cop Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker), who infiltrates the racing community in order to stop a string of trailer hijackings. The racing action is to be expected, and even somewhat believable until you get to that manic hijacking where the truck driver is pretty good at protecting his rig, while O'Conner jumps in to pull Toretto's fatty out of the fire, along with his top gunslinger Vince (Matt Schulze). It wouldn't be a hot motorcar moving-picture show without some hot babes and you have that too with a couple romantic angles thrown in, but the chief attraction is the street cars and the unparalleled stunts they're asked to perform. At that place'southward a reason it's called 'Fast and Furious'.
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Improbably cool.
On one level, "The Fast and the Furious" is ii hours of machismo. Merely on another level, it does evidence the subculture of street racing. Before it came out, I'd never known that people soup their cars upwards with nitrous oxide to increase speed. Vin Diesel plays his typical function, and Paul Walker almost seems similar a side graphic symbol.
I should identify that much of the motion-picture show looks pretty improbable. I won't divulge the scenes right here for run a risk of spoiling the moving picture, but trust me: you'll know these scenes when you see them. But like I said, the moving-picture show does give ane an insight into the world of street racing. I never saw the sequel; I heard that it was the average kind of sequel (and summer 2003 saw a slew of lousy sequels).
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Somehow Created a Series
Los Angeles police officer Brian O'Connor (Paul Walker) must decide where his loyalty actually lies when he becomes enamored with the street racing world he has been sent hugger-mugger to destroy.
Every bit of now (2016), I cannot even go along rail of how many films there are in this series. At least eight, perhaps nine, and that'south non counting the original version which has most nothing to do with this one. How this movie spawned a whole industry is across me.
Not that information technology is a bad movie, only it actually has no depth at all. A guy races cars, and everyone else races cars, and the guy is attracted to another guy's sister. It all falls into place and then hands, no hassle, no fourth dimension to find out who anyone is. And yet, this is the picture show that made Paul Walker immortal.
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The Fast and the Furious
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This was the outset motion picture in what would get a non-stop high octane franchise full of absurd and fast cars racing and chasing each other, including lots of action and some stunts along the way, directed by Rob Cohen (Dragonheart). Basically a string of loftier-speed truck robberies, stealing millions of dollars worth of electronic equipment, have been occurring, Los Angeles street racing gang leader Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel fuel) is nether suspicion for these hijacking crimes. Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) is an officer for the LAPD and goes undercover, joining Toretto'south highly skilled crew of racers, taking part in many illegal late nighttime street races for high stakes. As time goes past however Brian is compromising his assignment by becoming office of Toretto'south life, he is sympathising with the chief suspect, and falling in love with Toretto's sister Mia (The Faculty's Jordana Brewster), he eventually starts to try and prove Toretto'south innocence. Also starring Michelle Rodriguez equally Toretto's girlfriend Letty, Die Another Day'south Rick Yune as Johnny Tran, Chad Lindberg as Jesse, Johnny Strong as Leon, Ted Levine as Sergeant Tanner, Matt Schulze as Vince, rapper Ja Rule as Edwin, Space Jam'south Thom Barry as Amanuensis Bilkins and Bruce Almighty's Noel Gugliemi equally Hector. Diesel with his gravely voice is cool, Walker is blank most of the time but a reasonable hero, and supporting cast members Brewster and Rodriguez do fine also. To be honest, the storyline going on is not the thing to pay the fullest attending to, as the title suggests it the pedal-to-the-metal stuff, all the colourful and absurd cars fuelled up, with extra rocket boosters and switches, that speed and crash their way around, and the explosions and stunts along the mode keep the pace up as well, all in all it is a worthwhile activeness thriller. Good!
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Fun if fairly mindless activeness film
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Brian O'Connor is a Los Angeles police officer who is working undercover to discover the identity of a grouping involved in a serial of truck hijackings. To this cease he tries to get in with the street racing community. To practice this he will not just demand to have part in the races he will have to impress the other racers. His bosses are convinced that ane Dominic Toretto is behind the crimes but as Brian gets to know him he becomes less sure and is shortly convinced that a group of Chinese racers are the ones involved… is this really the example or of Brian condign a bit as well friendly with Toretto? He has too fallen for Toretto's beautiful sis which leads to some friction with another one of the grouping who as well has the hots for her.
If y'all are looking for the 'Citizen Kane' of activeness movies this isn't information technology; however if y'all just want some good mindless fun with fast cars and a proficient looking cast you could practise much worse. Early on I thought this would just be 'Betoken Break' with street racers instead of surfers… in many ways information technology is but there are as many differences as similarities. As one might expect there are a succession of action set pieces; this include several races, fights, shootings and a spectacular truck robbery that goes horribly wrong. These are pretty exciting even if they are a flake unrealistic at times… an case of this is the truck hijacking; it takes place on what appears to be a chief road only nosotros don't encounter a unmarried other vehicle for the entire scene… if you lot tin can ignore this sort of thing this shouldn't backbite from the film. The cast might not be Oscar contenders but the do a solid job. Overall this is a solid enough brain-in-neutral action moving-picture show.
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The first of Universal's biggest franchise to date.
A slick, adrenaline-fuelled action motion picture featuring a hot cast, a absurd soundtrack, and endless custom cars, The Fast and the Furious is designed primarily to appeal to the young petrol-head crowd—those who would spend a fortune on a sound arrangement for their ride and then boom crap music out of the windows while sat in a McDonald'south car park (at least here in the UK). Anyone heavily into car civilization will probably moisture themselves in excitement over the modified machines on display.
Only even if the idea of highly-polished Japanese street cars with more expensive accessories than a Kardashian doesn't get your pistons pumping, there's always the human eye-candy: for the ladies, at that place'due south blonde-haired, blueish-eyed Paul Walker and bald fleck of rough Vin Diesel fuel, while the guys become numerous tasty young women to ogle, including Jordana Brewster equally Vin Diesel'southward younger sis and Michelle Rodriguez as feisty girl-racer Letty. Nosotros also become lots of impressive stunts to continue the pulse pounding, with a great chase scene featuring one character dangling from a truck cab while being shot at past the driver, and a white-knuckle bound across railway tracks in front of an oncoming train that results in a spectacular crash.
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Outset of many
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Twenty years ago - has information technology been that long? - Paul Walker and director Rob Cohen made The Skulls together. Cohen got a deal with producer Neal H. Moritz and Universal Pictures. Looking for ideas, he asked Walker what his dream action motion-picture show would be. The answer? A mix of Days of Thunder and Donnie Brasco. Later on a May 1998 issue of Vibe detailed New York Metropolis'southward street racing scene, they had their moving picture. All they needed was a co-star.
After Gone In 60 Seconds, Universal wanted Timothy Olyphant only they got Moritz's pick instead: Vin Diesel, hot off the success of Pitch Black. And then, 70-eight wrecked cars later, we had a motion picture. Any similarity to the D.B. Sweeney and Charlie Sheen moving picture No Man's Country - which came out thirteen years before - is surely coincidental.
LAPD officeholder Brian O'Conner (Walker) has gone undercover to infiltrate the gang that has been stealing from trucks and disappearing. He shortly makes it into the gang led by Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel), who has been banned from pro racing after attacking the man who accidentally killed his begetter, but complicating matters is that he before long falls for Dominic'southward sis Letty (Jordanna Brewster).
This movie was originally entitled Racer X (the name of the Vibe commodity), Race Wars and Redline, but then someone had the brilliant thought to ask Roger Corman if they could use the championship of his 1955 film The Fast and the Furious. Getting paid once more for a pic he already made? I tin only imagine how delighted Corman had to be at the prospect.
This picture made stars of both Walker and Diesel. Waker would work with Ted Levine once more - he plays one of his bosses hither - in Joyride, while Diesel would turn down to exist in the side by side few sequels to this movie.
This was a movie decimated by the critics. Actually it wasn't until the terminal few movies that anyone would even admit they liked these. How times have changed.
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Great activeness and illogic make this a practiced B movie
The Fast and the Furious star the e'er expert Vin Diesel as a car racer- on the streets. He meets Brian (Paul Walker) in a good stoke of luck as he saves him from the cops. So some more plot comes in into the pic, simply it the activity that counts here.
Giving credit where credit is due, the film has outstanding action sequences involving car chases that haven't been this exhilarating since the infamous pod race in Phantom Menace. Plus (and surprisingly), the film envelops you into the story, and it makes you feel some actual feeling for the characters among the blaze of the cars. And for that I reccomend this movie for the thrill seeking audience that has chomped up the recent popcorn flicks such as Mummy ii, Tomb Raider and Swordfish (Fast and Furious is ane of the best ones of it's kind then far this yr).
Yet, with most B flicks come the inevitable flaws, and this has 2 usual yet notwithstanding dumb ones. ane, from the looks at some of the steamy and violent scenes in the motion picture, it looks similar as if director Cohen was making a rated R movie filled with even more action, sexual content and dare I say naughty language in the mix. Yet, in one case once again, it might seem, the guys up top accept made this film into yet some other PG-13 flick to try and up the sales. That's why say what yous will about the Southward Park movie, just at least they kept on trying at information technology until they got the R (and that is as well evident from the s**t episode from ii days ago) unlike such movies as Bring It On and Coyote Ugly.
And 2 (casuistic part), this flick takes place in Los Angeles, a city that is sometimes called the city on wheels. Then how come when the race in the streets scenes come up, you almost see no cars whatsoever on the streets (unless it's used for the plot or something)? I have a feeling that even though this doesn't have much logic in it, at least it'due south better hither than in New York, cause then it would be only plain ludicrous. Anyhow, like I said, It's a good action pic, though not a bang-up ane. Kudos go to the director, stunt co-ordinators, drivers and Diesel. B+
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Fast & Furious-Slow Downward the Acrimony *1/2
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Wretched picture dealing with an undercover police officer who infiltrates a gang involved in drug trafficking.
Vin Diesel looks like a younger version of the tardily Telly Savalas in many of the scenes of this terrible motion picture.
Yes, y'all have wonderful chase scenes which brings back memories of "The French Connexion." Must all hunt scenes exist related to either the wild west or the drug scene.
The story is poorly written. Why was the sister of Diesel fuel bumped off? Who is the other girl?
Even so, the worst matter virtually this movie is what information technology makes of the criminal justice system. Even when punished later helping an officer, the picture show ends on the note of defiance directed against that very arrangement. This is terribly incorrect and sends a incorrect message to our youth.
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Cutting to the Chase
Handsome blonde Paul Walker (as Brian) goes undercover to investigate a gang of Los Angeles street racers, led by super-masculine Vin Diesel (as Dom). Mr. Walker hooks upward with Mr. Diesel's sister Jordana Brewster (equally Mia). Michelle Rodriguez (as Letty) stands out, among the others. Rick Yune heads upwardly a badass Asian gang. Rapper Ja Dominion (equally Edwin) helps make the soundtrack jump. Managing director Rob Cohen serves double duty equally a "Pizza Hut" delivery man.
The guys race for fun, turn a profit, each other's cars, and getting ii girls in one bed. The attempt to rescue dangling Matt Schulze (as Vince) from a speeding truck is an exciting sequence (you shouldn't eject without seeing this function). "The Fast and the Furious" is a great movie to see if you're a guy whose parents let you lot lookout man PG-thirteen films as a rule. You get fighting and fast cars, with tough guys and tight women. And, anybody can say "shirt" without the "r".
***** The Fast and the Furious (6/18/01) Rob Cohen ~ Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez
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The rubber melts on the road. Alive life a quarter of a mile at a fourth dimension!
Story does non totally lack substance, but main purpose is to show of some fast and pretty souped up cars. Vin Diesel fans will rejoice. Otherwise don't await much to redeem pit grease. An surreptitious cop(Paul Walker) infiltrates a gang of L.A. street racers in hopes of solving moonlight highway robberies. Also in the cast are Chad Lindberg, Rick Yune, Ja Rule and the ever and so hot Michelle Rodriguez. Not the worst ever made, but an Indy 500 away from mediocre. Rev those engines boys and girls.
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Corybantic
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Spoilers herein.
Emphasis on the Furious.
My platonic movie will take me to unknown places, ideally through new visual experiences. This motion picture tries twice to practice so. On one of these accounts, it fails, but the other really impressed me. And I'grand a hard example.
The failure was that the filmmaker thought he discovered a new counterculture worth exploring. As with all such, information technology is illegal, costly, dangerous, urban and youth-centered. Simply this is rooted in asian-influenced techno and has an appearance that is unique. The writers (were there whatever?) weren't skilful enough to capture any of this beyond showing us the cars. A failure.
The success was in extending the visual grammar. Nothing revolutionary or original here. But the visual upshot does push the feel to a new level. I believe it does so by relying on Manga, which is the art of this same counterculture. I'm pretty shocked that no one here has compared the essential manner to `Akira.'
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Action junkies and thrill seekers utilize here.
As night falls on the streets of Fifty.A., souped up cars, driven past souped upwards kids, illegally race at incredible speeds. That lonely is more than enough to go on the cops busy, but it appears that a number of robberies on moving trucks could well be the work of the speed racers. Time for someone to go undercover, someone with a flair for speed and daring practise heroics.........
The championship says information technology all actually, from the very first sequence to the pulsating ripper of a finale, this film really is fast and furious. Impaired in substance and morally dubious in to the deal, it is still 1 of the finest exponents of the action/thriller/criminal offence genre of modern times. Attributable certain debts to Signal Interruption and Stone Cold, director Rob Cohen has crafted a technically adroit picture which is an assault on the eyes and the ears. Cars tear effectually, crash bang and wallop, thru the camera, under trucks, in front of speeding trains and on it goes, with no real allow upwards till the end credits roll. In that location is a plot, it's thin, but it does accept a story from which to race around. The cast flex their muscles and pout respectively, with a petty chip of eye candy for either sexes to admire from their comfortable chairs. Boasting great stunt piece of work mixed in with very capable CGI, The Fast And The Furious deserves much meliorate regard than it currently has on some cyberspace sites. Why? Because it does what it tells you it will practice from the title, and equally impaired equally it is, it'due south the best kind of dumb to loose yourself with. 8/10
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Good acting, proficient action, poor plot
The plot for this pic is pretty weak, Brian is an undercover cop (is he a good one - umm not really) trying to bust a hijacking ring, falls into a team of racers and decides to choose them over the law. The acting isn't too bad, vin diesel and Paul walker concur their own, and the supporting ladies bring their A game. The action / car racing is pretty good, it'southward the early ages of CGI then the shots aren't the best, only virtually of the real racing holds its own. Information technology'due south a fairly good movie, just lacks depth on the plot, jumps around and doesn't explore whatsoever of the characters too deep.
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I`m Too Old For This
I guess being born 36 years ago I`m also old to relish THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS by well-nigh .... oh twenty years ? It would be flippant to criticise something that was produced solely for MTV addicts so I won`t mention that Rob Cohen`s direction is just a characteristic length music video where the chicks are also fit to be truthful or that when someone walks around they exercise so in sexy slo mo , or that the soundtrack is intrusive , or that the cars are too fast to be realistic or that the multi ethnic issues of street civilisation are ignored . In fact that is a valid criticism as the bloods , crips , underclass and center class students all get together and no one seems to accept a culture issue . Vin Diesel fuel is another valid criticism . Am I lonely in thinking that he`s the only leading man in film history who rivals Steven Segal as most unconvincing actor ever ? Oh and I have never always seen so much production placement in my life . Aren`t there any laws confronting this sort of thing ? By a very foreign irony I have a FAST AND FURIOUS T-shirt . Ironic in the sense that I wore an particular of clothing for a film whose existance only seems to involve advertising products
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Commencement drive-in pic of the millenium
Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) wants to bring together the family of the head of California street racing (Vin Diesel)...simply why?
The plot is comic book level; the dialogue is very VERY bad...but who really cares? This is a throwback of those impaired 1970s drive-in movies...it's for people who similar loud, fast films filled with mindless activity, attractive women, cars...and nothing else. I didn't similar the motion picture. It was as well loud, too silly and way too long for a impaired action flick. What saves information technology is some truly incredible action sequences (the "hijacking" sequence towards the cease was unbelievable), some very nice, innovative direction, a cast that manages to exist good despite the script and a very good performance past Vin Diesel fuel. This was supposed to exist Walker'south breakthrough film but Diesel steals information technology abroad. Also it looks kind of silly to take tall, lean, pretty boy Walker against tall, muscular, severe-looking Diesel.
See it for the activity and Diesel. During the slow spots adore the cars or the women.
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"If you lot want time buy the magazine." Entertaining enough merely rather shallow.
Warning: Spoilers
The Fast and the Furious is fix in Los Angeles & starts as undercover cop Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) enters an illegal street race between racers with high functioning sports cars, he bets his $80,000 automobile that he'll win simply instead loses. Suddenly the cops show upwards & he manages to relieve Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel fuel) from being arrested, Brian gains Dominic's trust in an attempt to use his noesis & contacts to identify & take down a gang of street racers who are hijacking huge container trucks & stealing millions of dollars of electric goods...
This American German language co-production was directed past Rob Cohen who has a modest cameo equally the pizza delivery guy & is an entertaining activity flick without always reaching the heights of greatness. The script by Gary Scott Thompson, Erik Bergquist & David Ayer moves along at a reasonable footstep & has decent amounts of action but it never quite satisfied me totally in any area. The plot is predictable & pretty standard fare, the twists accept little dramatic impact like the revelation that Brian is a cop or that Dominic is behind the hijackings. A lot more could have been washed with them. I usually don't accept the moral high ground but in the case of The Fast and the Furious I feel I accept to considering the age group this will appeal besides, I mean it turns the criminal element into hero's which didn't sit well with me especially at the finish when the cop is more concerned about the scumbag hijackers than the poor innocent truck driver! This isn't as activity packed every bit you might like either, sure there'southward a skillful opening street race through LA & some good stunts during the final hijack but otherwise information technology's all show & no substance, simply like the cars featured in fact. There are plenty of scenes with loftier powered cars reeving their engines, plenty of scenes of nicely painted sports cars driving around & plenty of scenes of them breaking the speed limit but it doesn't really corporeality to much apart from the opening race & the last xx minutes. The character'south are OK if a flake clichéd (I mean Brian actually starts to respect Dominic after existence effectually him for a while...), it keeps one interest & information technology certainly passes the time harmlessly enough without ever being outstanding.
Director Cohen does OK & turns in a suitably glossy looking movie that will probably entreatment to the male child racers out there equally information technology glamorises the notion of street racing, winning at whatsoever costs & show'southward these souped upwardly sports cars in equally good a light as just about whatever pic out there. The cars themselves await nice enough for certain & they are a pleasant distraction whenever on screen I suppose, at to the lowest degree they divert attention abroad from the interim. The film has some style almost it for certain, the opening street race for case when they reach top speeds the lights outside the windows blur into one long vivid line & in that location are other tricks used as well to brand a absurd sequence. The violence is minimal so at that place's no demand to worry nigh that.
With a supposed upkeep of nigh $38,000,000 I wouldn't call The Fast and the Furious exactly depression upkeep just it'south not up there with the 100 meg plus Hollywood blockbusters, making $40,000,000 on it's opening weekend in theatres it did actually well & I think it was a bit of a surprise to everyone involved with it. Information technology's well made with some decent CGI calculator effects besides as some practiced old manner stunt work. I must admit I didn't like the loud electronic trip the light fantastic type music though. The interim is not bully, Vin Diesel fuel was paid a absurd $2,000,000 plainly & he's pretty poor, just check out his speech to Brian about his father! Jordana Brewster & Michelle Rodriguez provide the good looks & do a fine job.
The Fast and the Furious is a good solid action thriller, information technology'south not that slap-up in storytelling terms but I think it provides plenty absurd action, macho moments & fast cars to keep most placidity for 100 odd minutes. Followed past two sequels, ii Fast 2 Furious (2003) & The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) while a third sequel is currently in production.
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