The Fast and the Furious

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Summary: YOU BLINK....YOU MISS IT!!
Review: I'VE HEARD A LOT OF PEOPLE LOVE A PARTICULAR PIECE OF MUSIC IN THIS MOVIE.
ITS CALLED 'NUREGA' AND ITS AT THE PARTY IN DOMINICS HOUSE. IF ANYONE WANTS IT.. CHECK OUT AN ALBUM CALLED 'LAST ONE HOME' (ORGANIC AUDIO) YOU'LL LOVE IT!!

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Summary: Excellent action movie.
Review: The Fast and The Furious DVD is defenetly a must have if you liked the movie. It has a lot of extras that will keep you busy after you watch the movie. The movie is an excellent action movie that delivers what it promises. Do not expect a flawless story or intracate plot, but it does have some excellent acting and direction. Good sountrack, nice looking cars (lots of imports and an awesome Charger). Add it to your DVD collection.

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Summary: It's not Hamlet, but it is a fun movie..
Review: This is a case of "What you see on the boxcover is what you get". It has some good car chase scenes, Vin Diesel acting tough, and women in tight clothes. I enjoyed watching this movie, it was a mild, pleasant diversion.

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Summary: The more furious they get...the faster they drive!
Review: A non stop movie packed with fast cars and non stop adrenalin rush. These guys appreciate the speed and total ecstacy of driving fast in cool cars....it becomes their life! Enter Paul Walker..he's different from the other guys, he doesn't fit in. Yet when he shows them his car and his speed...he suddenly becomes a cool rider. The group he beomes involved with led by Vin Diesel are in constant battle with a dangerous clique who are willing to kill if they don't get what they're after. Its dangerous, fast and definately furious!!

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Summary: TIGHT A$$ Movie
Review: This movie is about an undercover cop Brian O Conner (Paul Walker) who gets into the world of street racing by meeting Dominic Torreto (Vin Diesel). In Dominic gang there is his girlfriend Lenny (Michelle Roridriguz)and his sister Mia (Jordana Brewster who is hella hot) and his buddies Leon, Vince and Jessie. Brian then has to find out who is stealing from truckers with out blowing his cover. This movie is tight but the car are tighter! If you havent seen it you should.

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Summary: See past the easy slams on this movie
Review: The critics slam this movie... and it is an easy target, action-oriented movies usually are. It's always easier to tear something down rather than build it up, but I'm going to give my best shot at defending my four star rating.

I will grant the critics that the acting is only "fair." I will also grant that the plot is unbelievable some of the time.

Sure, the actors in this film are young and occasionally show their inexperience. However, I would say that Vin Diesel's performance stands out. Sure it is a "race movie," and nobody will give him credit, but he took a one-dimensional character and gave Dom Turetto a bit of swagger, strength, but also a sense of fatherly protectionism and remorse for his past crime. Dom Turetto is the father-figure for the team of racers which is the focus of the plot. He is also the anti-hero to Paul Walker's protagonist, Brian Spilner/O'Connor.

As for the plot, I will concede that it is far-fetched, with its semi-truck hijackings, wiseguy police officers, and machinegun-toting Asian Youth Gangs. However, I would argue that the plot does its best to string the racing events together in a cohesive way while not turning into a "night and day" kind of movie in which you have a very distinct rift between the "race scenes" and the "dialogue scenes." I compared this movie to another race movie called "Driven" (which was horrible). "The Fast and the Furious" did an outstanding job when compared to "Driven" in keeping the momentum throughout its dialogue sequences. The transitions are seamless, and the dialogue and direction are quick and to the point.

Where this movie excels is in the handling of the race sequences. The choreography of the auto races or the semi-truck hijackings are unlike anything we have seen. To show these types of images with real street-legal cars is something that captures the imagination of many young Americans. Each "race sequence" is unique from the others, either because of the cars, the setting, time of day, or the adversity facing the protagonists (shotgun-weilding semi-truck driver, freight train on a collision-course, or the aforementioned machinegun-toting Asian Youth Gang).

I believe this movie has been so popular because of the themes that emerge from the periphery of the storyline. The story and action convey a sense of family, competition, hard work, and equality between the sexes. The racing teams represented in the movie allow their members to cross barriers of race and sex, exposing close-knit groups which help each other excel in the competitive world of drag racing. Through hard work and the support of one's teammates, any youth in America could build his or her own dream machine and race against the best in the city.

The DVD has excellent visual and audio qualities, and the DVD "extras" are outstanding. The "making of..." and director commentary sections are strong and insightful. In the deleted scenes section, the viewer will find a great scene in which Dom, Brian, and the other men of the "team" are outside the garage drinking beer and telling the stories of how they became racers and how one's life changes after becoming addicted to the adrenaline-powered life of a racer. Why this scene was cut from the movie is inexplicable.

"The Fast and the Furious" will entertain you many times over if you keep an open mind and look past some of the less believable elements. It may not impress you with an Oscar-worthy performance or storyline, but for those who accept its limitations and enjoy its successes, it is an entertaining movie you will watch again and again.

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Summary: MUST SEE NOW
Review: I found this movies to be one of action packed adventure as well as an insight into today's modern teen as well as the young adult. This movie, to say the least, ROCKED! The music was great, the plot better, and the man picked to play Dominic, could not have been anymore perfect. I saw it originally in the Theater because my cousin made me go..I was not at all happy for the simple fact, I'm a female, in my mid to late twenties...I'm way out of the car racing scene and phase...but after watching this movie, I not only had to watch it again, I bought the DVD. This is a movie you can watch with your boyfriend or husband and be just as happy...

The only thing I didnt like about it was the ending...it was one of those endings that makes you beg for more information...Is he still a cop? Are they still friends?? Did he get Mia? Dominic ever get his sister into school?? Where did everyone go? Did he get caught? Will there be a SEQUEL to answer these questions???? I Hope so...because I'll camp out to get the tickets!

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Summary: B movie without the T & A
Review: Why do we watch "B" movies? T & A, right? Well they replaced the T & A with cars in this movie. I am not into the Japanese four banger hot rods. I am an American Muscle Car fanatic. This movie changed some of my views. The cars in the movie are just plain pretty (especially the one and only Muscle Car, a blown 1968-69 Dodge Charger). I had no idea the kind of power these cars could produce. Granted, the acting left something to be desired. It was bearable, however. This was an ideal example of a "B" movie, right down to the Cheesy on liners ('I live my of a quarter of a mile at a time'). Your proverbial "naked women" have been replaced with a lot of really nice (expensive) cars. The plot is simple to follow. I rated this movie as high as I did because of what it is. It is a great "B" movie.

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Summary: The title tells you the alleged plot ...
Review: There is a lot of action and there are many angry people, so I suppose the title is accurate. What there is not is any reason whatsoever to see this film. There is no acting to speak of, no real plot development, no character development, no interesting dialogue. There is no genuine exploration of the racing subculture, or any interest in looking at what tensions, interests, or economic forces might create such a subculture. It would be interesting so understand why these people are in such dead-end, sterile lives that suicidal races and peer respect have become so important. Instead, we see a lot of cars, a lot of races, a lot of rather puerile challenges, and a lot of sex--but no intelligence, no clarity, no calls for the rest of us to examine our comfotable lives--and, in the end, no interest in the very subject the filmmakers are portraying. If it were possible to give this film no stars, I would do so.

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Summary: Why do people make bad movies?
Review: I saw this movie last summer with a friend to kill an afternoon. After the credits rolled we left the theater with two different thoughts in our heads. My friend was thinking "Man, I want to get a Honda and upgrades and a five inch muffler and participate in illegal street races (He says this despite that fact that we reside in a dull, suburban town nestled along the Hudson river where the maximum speed limit is thirty miles an hour)!" I was thinking "Why did I see this?" This movie is terrible, one of the worst films I've ever seen. The script is horrible--so horrible that the fungus lurking under my kitchen sink could write better stuff. The acting is laughable. It is laughable for two reasons, 1) Being that the person in charge of casting is a dog or a toddler or a rock (I'd say all three, but that would be giving too much credit), and 2) The horrible script gives these "actors" the worst lines imaginable. The plot is far-fetched and corny. It involves street racers who hijack trucks full of electronics and showboat while they do it. A young cop who drives around in a reved-up, neon Honda (Oh, so that's the new police squad car...) comes to investigate the hijackings and gets involved in the secret world of illegal street racing and meets the "Big Man", Torreto. Then he falls in love with Torettos sister. So to sum it up, the cop needs to stop the truck hijackers, marry Toretto's sister, and earn Toretto's respect in the process. Of course there are the predictable plot twists (the cop goes in only to bust Toretto, but then befriends him and feels guilty when he arrests him) and to accompany the predictable twists, there is the predictable ending (Toretto forgives the cop and everyone's happy). The cast is filled with the most simple and campy characters. We have the young, blonde, rebellious cop, the cold-but-misunderstood street racer, the comedic Spanish racer, and the cold, heartless, well groomed Chinese racer. Oh yes, we also have the brainy genious with the sad story (who in the end gets shot to make the people feel even more remorse for him), and the "independent" sister/lover. Basically, the cast stunk. The soundtrack was garbage too, using wannabe hardcore rockers such as the crap-tastical Limp Bizkit. One may suspect that since the movie's about cars, then at least the automoblies should be good, but the movie is incapable of delivering even that. Most of the cars are inexpensive little Hondas. No reved-up Porches or Mustangs here (I could imagine that since the main characters were poor, they wouldn't be able to afford such nice cars, so they hooked them up with cheap ones. But then answer me this: If they can't afford cars like that, then how can they afford the upgrades on their cars?). I strongly suggest this to anyone who is considering renting this movie: Don't do it. This is a terrible movie. You will killing your day and torturing yourself. Go out and rent Pulp Fiction or Saving Private Ryan--you'll be glad you did.