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Summary: Terrible
Review: There was a lot more street racing in this, but it sucked. Suki? Who thought of that genius character. She seemed so bad at acting. Maybe it was because her dialogue sucked! This whole movie is bland though. When you hate the characters, you hate the movie. I hated the characters, and you will too.
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Summary: Awesome Cars
Review: In 2001 "The Fast and the Furious" was testimony to the unexpected lure of a howling engine, blue smoke from spinning tires, and hot dudes and babes in even hotter cars. Oh yeah, and the moody glower of breakout star Vin Diesel.
So what do you do for the sequel? More smoke, babes, dudes and howling. And no Diesel. The result? Well, as expected, director John Singleton ("Boyz N the Hood") did not make a movie as good as "FF1." This is way better. How is it better? Let us count the ways. First, he got rid of all the extraneous stuff -- like plot. "2 Fast 2 Furious" has something to do with money and drugs, but Singleton wisely doesn't spend too much time sweating the details. Basically, it boils down to one of two situations: The guys have something and must drive 120 mph to escape with it, or they are after something and must drive 120 mph to capture it. Second, the lumpish presence of Diesel and his biceps is barely missed at all. Like the first version, this film seems to be set up as a star vehicle for blue-eyed, Steve McQueenesque Paul Walker. But once again it looks as if the sidekick walks off with the movie. An actor, rapper and model, Tyrese (as Walker's pal Roman Pearce) brings something new to Diesel's role as the moody, hard-driving loner -- a personality. He's not just buffed and cocky, he's got such a nice way with a one-liner that he grows on you. Like virtually everyone else in the sequel, Tyrese was not part of the original. This is exactly the same movie as the first one except for the fact that almost all the actors have changed, it is now set in Miami instead of Southern California, and a Cuban drug dealer (Cole Hauser of "White Oleander") has been added as a villain. The constant is that these are still the sort of hot-wheelers who -- when a 20-foot jump is unexpectedly inserted at the end of a white-knuckle race -- find it to be an exhilarating and amusing development. They sail hundreds of feet through the air hollering "Whoooooooo!" at the top of their lungs, and have a good laugh about it at the finish line. (No one gets hurt, of course, despite the lack of helmets, seat belts or parachutes.) The new premise is that Walker's character, Brian O'Conner, has been kicked off the police force and is scratching out a borderline existence in Florida as a street racer. His buddy, Tej (rapper Ludacris, an improvement over Ja- Rule in "FF1"), runs the garage, finds him races and helps him live the car culture life. Call it "Boyz Under the Hood." O'Conner needs money and is offered a chance to make some -- and, of course, clear his name -- on an undercover job with U.S. Customs. In an amazing coincidence, the undercover agent he is working with happens to be a gorgeous brunette (Eva Mendes of "Training Day"). He also picks up his pal Roman (Tyrese) to help run the scam. And we're off. RIVETING DRAG RACES
One nice touch is that in Miami they are apparently not into that boring, side-by-side drag racing from "FF1." This is real street racing with NASCAR- style fender-rubbing and bumper-bumping. There are at least three set pieces in which cars careen through traffic, cutting off semitrailers, skidding across lanes and creating spectacular crashes. It is riveting -- except for those who have driven there, who will recognize it as just another typical day on a Miami freeway. However, it should be said that Singleton does a nice job of keeping the gratuitous violence to a minimum. Nothing says summer film fun like explosions, guns and cartwheeling cars -- and that's all here -- but the gore and mayhem is restrained. The scene you'll be talking about afterward, involving a rat, a bucket and a blowtorch, is especially clever since its effect depends almost entirely on the viewer's imagination, not grisly details. The rest of the action is more likely to spark interest in high-performance racing gear than gunplay. HIGH-SPEED FANTASY
There will probably be a rash of concerned citizens who decry the crazy driving showcased in the film. But the FF movies may be saving the clutch-and- shift car from extinction. (Although someone should point out that there is not a street racer in the world that has a gear that can be engaged at 114 mph to make the car go faster.) At the end, the whole thing makes no more sense than the conclusion, an implausible, pointless, high-speed leap over hundreds of feet of water. But that doesn't mean you won't be hollering "Whoooooooo!" all the way.
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Summary: The cars make it good
Review: I think this movie is actually good, nothing wrong with it. Only the last jump was really unrealistic, but hey it's a movie for something (cause u can't do stuff like that in real life). Fast n furious 1 was a 5 for me, but i think they could have chosen a better car than the Lancer Evo, not that it's ugly but there r whay much nicer cars. Anyway, still a good movie.
Rating: 
Summary: Terrible, Bloody Terrible
Review: The Dialogue in this movie is so cheesy that it made Swat look like a masterpeice. I think that is was written by some kid that dropped english before the 6th grade. The acting was, "Oh Look We're Two Good Looking Guys Racing Around In Hot Cars, Lets Wear Tight Clothes" sadly I think this was also the story line. This is nothing more than the studio trying to tap into pop culture and rob (and I do mean rob) the kids (watching this mindless drivel) of the nation out of their parent's money.
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Summary: Not street racer but good storyline
Review: Are you looking for street racing again?
You may be a bit disappointed in this second Fast & Furious movie. But it is a definitely better quality and more exciting movie. 2 Fast 2 Furious obviously has a much stronger storyline without repeating the same one as the previous movie. Even missing Vin Diesel, Paul Walker still able to drive this second movie to the peak. Very good one. Cann't wait for the third one to coming out.
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Summary: Where is Vin!!???
Review: This film seriously lacks the prescence of Vin Diesel. It gets by without him, but most of the coolness that was Fast and Furious is gone. Paul Walker can't carry the film, and Tyrese is a substandard Diesel replacement, he's okay is his part, gets a few laughs, but he's got nowhere near the presence, nor the wry smile. The plot, well it's just a silly drug runners and cops story that becomes ridiculous by the end, heck even Tyrese said as much in the outtakes. The cars - They suck, I'm sorry but the Supra in no.1 kicked [rear] over the big Mitsubishi product placement that is 2Fast 2Furious... I mean the Lancer EVO 7??? hardly gets the blood running, it looks like a compact family car. The girls - There is a well freaky looking chick in this film that drives the Honda S2000, sigh, where is Michel Rodrigues, she was kewl (and a great match of Vin). Anyway, it's still ok, but they should have just paid Vin whatever he wanted, it would have been a better film for it.
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Summary: Hey Amazon
Review: Do away with the gold box deals. YOUR PRICES SUCK. I laugh every time I look in mine. I can always go some place local and get what you have ON SALE for half the price of what you are selling them for. Get real.
Rating:
Summary: I want two hours of my life back
Review: This film doesn't even begin to engage with you at all on any levels. From the opening sequence, you will hate the characters because they're so flat. You will hate the soundtrack because it's angry black people shouting about their ho's and their bling. You will hate the director because he cannot direct, you will hate the writer because he cannot write. I noticed some people said this film has 'attitude'. If attitude is (badly) making a (boring) film which is basically a two-hour long car advert, then yeah, this film's got it. You could say it falls into the category of Mindless Action Film. Big testosterone fests that show off the old Hollwood budgeting strategy of spending most of it on explosives. There have been great Mindless Action Films in the past; Die Hard, Speed, and so on. This film doesn't even compare. It's below mindless. I'd rather watch a tub of paint than watch this again. If you want to be entertained, go watch something which is most certainly NOT either of the films in this franchise.
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Summary: So bad I'm almost speechless.
Review: We got this as a gag gift for X-mas. Yes. It's that bad. I Don't know anything about cars, but I do know that the dudes shift gears like 20 times in one straighaway and I don't think cars have that many gears do they? Also - there are many scenes where people aren't wearing seatbelts. This is supposed to be marketed to young people, and I don't mind the illegal racing, but at least wear your freakin seatbelts people! I know street racing is alive and well, but the movie doesn't seem very realistic - they weren't even winning enough money to cover the damages on their cars from the race! Anyway - the acting is bad, as to be expected in a movie more about cars than people. And I was a little dissapointed that dude didn't get the girl in the end - what's up with that?
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Summary: HOW?
Review: The only reason I signed up for Amazon.com was to write a truthfull review. I would really give this movie a negative star rating or even a zero, but I cannot. Let me start off by saying that back in 2001, I saw The Fast and the Furious and thought it was the coolest movie in the world. I have since then matured and realized what a crappy movie it was and how much they don't have a clue about what they're talking about. Like how you can pop the hood and see a NOS fogger system AND, direct port nitrous injection AND, a stand alone fuel management system(and that's only in one scene). But away from the past, this movie is ten times worse. For starters, they turned it into a movie geared at only one audience, black people and people that like to copy them. With slang, rap music, hydralics and numerous other items from the "Hip Hop" community, this movie tries to blend show and go, but that is not really possible. Anyone that knows anything about cars knows that air bags, neon lights, big spoilers, chrome rims or just plain any rims over 17 inches, TV's, $10,000 stereos, and playstation 2's will not help you out in the speed factor of your automobile. It just saddens my heart to see what started off as a great phenomonon with the first movie, into neon lights and hip hop music. This is absolutly the dumbest movie about cars I have ever seen. The kids that like this movie think that cars that look cool and run 17 second quarter mile times are fast. They like to go crusing, and race other cars like their's and think when they win against a civic with exhaust their car is the fastest on the block. I also read a big feature article in Super Street, where they got to test the cars from the movie, and the cars times were SLOWER than stock. All the did for the movie was weigh them down with chrome rims and computer s***. I also found out they disengaged the all-wheel drive on the skyline, just so it could drift around corners to look cool. This movie really gives true car enthusiasts a bad BAD name. THIS MOVIE SUCKS. F*** YOU 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS.
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