The Fast and the Furious
By admin on May 5, 2010 in Movies
Product Description
Street racers vie to be top dog while trying to steer clear of the police.Amazon.com
A guilty pleasure with excess horsepower, The Fast and the Furious efficiently combines time-honored male fantasies (hot cars, hot women, hot action) into a vacuous plot of crystalline purity. It’s trash, but it’s fun trash, in which a hotshot Los Angeles cop named Brian (Paul Walker) infiltrates a gang of street racers suspected of fencing stolen goods from hijacked trucks. The gang leader is Dom (Vin Diesel), ex-con and reigning king of the street racers, who lives for those 10 seconds of freedom when his high-performance “rice rocket” (a highly modified Asian import) hurtles toward another quarter-mile victory. Racing is street theater for a lawless youth subculture, and Dom is a star behind the wheel–charismatic, dangerous, and protective toward his sister Mia (Jordana Brewster), who’s attracted to Brian as the newest member of Dom’s car-crazy team.
Director Rob Cohen treats this like Roman tragedy for MTV junkies, pushing every scene to adrenaline-pumping extremes; when his camera isn’t caressing a spectrum of nitrous oxide-enhanced dream machines, it’s ogling countless slim ‘n’ sexy race babes. The undercover-cop scenario cheaply borrows the split-loyalty theme perfected in Donnie Brasco; a rival Asian gang adds mystery and menace; and digital trickery is cleverly employed to explore the fuel-injected innards of the day-glo racecars. It’s about as substantial as a perfume ad, but just as alluring, and for heavy-metal maniacs of any age, Diesel’s superblown ’69 Charger proves that Detroit muscle never goes out of style. –Jeff Shannon
Anonymous | May 5, 2010 | Reply
Vin Diesel (Pitch Black) is taking over NICOLAS CAGE (Gone in 60 Seconds, The Rock, Con Air, The Family Man) and his character in GONE IN 60 SECONDS… Why?
IS HE JEALOUS that Nick Cage can drive a fast car, or even steal fifty exotic beauties in one night?????!!!!!!
Maybe there won’t be car stealers, but the idea is still the same. All the big “CAR” movies like; DAYS OF THUNDER, DRIVEN, GONE IN 60 SECONDS… We’ve seen them. They’re pretty good (some less than others). And now they give us THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS- let’s hope it can give us what GONE IN 60 SECONDS gave us… because Diesel better not be pulling a fast (and furious) one on us… WE HAVE HIGH EXPECTATIONS- which we can pretty much see won’t be met…
If Vin can’t get the the movie a-partying and make it good- than he will really be PITCH BLACK forever…
Get ready…
Rating: 4 / 5
Anonymous | May 5, 2010 | Reply
The trailer look good, the cars and females look good too. I enjoy the cast : Vin, Paul, Michelle, Jordana, Rick, and Ja Rule, they all are good actor and actress.I like the story line to the movies, it just make me wanna see it more.They should’ve hired me as one of the driver in the movies, I have a high preformance car and i can drive as well. Im gonna go see the movie 2 times.
Rating: 5 / 5
Anonymous | May 5, 2010 | Reply
The Fast and the Furious is a moive that people all acrose america will love. I have been looling in to street raceing for the past three years. This moive tells about the untold world of street raceing that only few in the country know about.
Rating: 5 / 5
Me Gustan Libros | May 5, 2010 | Reply
If I really liked fast japanese cars, this movie would be a whole lost better. As it is, the movie did an okay job, but nothing to brag about. Go rent “Point Break” for more or less the same effect and with a little more soul.
Rating: 3 / 5
Mikey | May 5, 2010 | Reply
I feel that nearly everyone that’s rating this movie are giving it extremely high marks. Give me a break people, let’s all take a step back from the “cool” cars and hot women (there wasn’t very many) and see this movie for what it really is. . . A cheap, temporary form of entertainment. Face it, in a few, few years anyone who buys this movie is going to end up giving it away or forgetting about (I know I did with ID4). Also, I have to agree with the other viewer that rated this movie with one star–a complete Point Break rip-off. If you really want to see this movie, either rent it or borrow it from a friend, but for- the-love-of-all-things-sacred don’t actually buy it.
Rating: 1 / 5