Rating: 
Summary: The Moose Hole - 2 Dumb 2 Ridiculous
Review: When the original The Fast and the Furious opened in theaters back in 2001, it looked to be just another action flick to keep teenagers happy at the movies until the next big hit entered the multiplexes. But The Fast and the Furious became a much bigger then anybody expected, especially its distributor, Universal Pictures. The original film, which cost only $38 million for the studio, ended its run in theaters with over $110 million. The surprise hit of the summer became an even bigger surprise on DVD. The film became one of the largest selling DVDs in the year it was released. So with these results in hand, it was a no brainer for Universal to make a follow up. Unfortunately things didn't go the way Universal would have liked it. Rising-star Vin Diesel, who got his break out role in the original The Fast and the Furious, wanted a much bigger paycheck then Universal was willing to pay. So in the end, he ended up dropping out of the project. After Diesel dropped out, Rob Cohen, director of The Fast and the Furious, also dropped out of the sequel. But since Universal still had Paul Walker, the other star of the original, they decided to go on with the sequel without them. Will the risk pay off for Universal or will this high-octane thrill ride run out of gas?The story goes that street racing is a big thing in the city of Miami. Watching tricked out cars race up and down the street and seeing who crashes and who crosses the finish line is a huge thrill with the people of Southern Florida. One of the big stars of the street racing scene is Brian O'Conner, who last time we saw him was racing out in Los Angles with Vin Diesel as an undercover cop. But since he let the criminal go, he was forced to leave the police department. When he is caught by the police, he is recruited by them to track down a cruel Miami import/export dealer. When O'Conner doesn't like the partner the police team him up with, he recruits an old friend, Roman Pearce, to help him track down the dealer so they can get their records cleaned. The story for 2 Fast 2 Furious is one of the most ridiculous ones pulled out of a movie. It is certainly as worse or even more horrible then the one for the original film. Some elements are ridiculous crafted into the film and some of the chases scenes are set up in a way that are too predictable. The absence of director Rob Cohen is clearly obvious with the sequel. Though the original wasn't a movie masterpiece, Cohen had at least some consistency. This film lacks that very dearly. The characters of 2 Fast 2 Furious are, for the most part, just stereotypes. The rest that are not, don't do a great job acting through this tired script. Paul Walker, who didn't receive too many fabulous comments about his acting, or lack there of, in the original film, doesn't do much better in the follow up but one can see improvement. The only one in the cast that shows some sign of rising acting talent is Tyrese Gibson, who plays O'Conner's ex-con buddy, Roman Pearce. Tyrese brings a lot of well needed humor is this film that is, for the most part, fairly dry. Most of the rest of the cast aren't really worth mentioning. Devon Aoki who plays Suki in the film isn't given much outside of the look badass and hot at the same time argument. She has no important lines and really doesn't do much with her role in the first place. She is basically there just for show. Same goes for Eva Mendes, though her character obviously places a more important role. But on a technical note, her character really doesn't do too much. The rest of the cast, like it was said before, isn't worth mentioning. Overall, 2 Fast 2 Furious is not much of an improvement from the original but did we really expect it to be? Without the badass charm of Vin Diesel and the consistency of Rob Cohen at the helm, the project suffers greatly. The story is tired, dry and too predictable as the film progresses. For what was accomplished in the film, if anything at all, the film could have been wrapped up much quicker then the two hours it ran in. Nothing really stands out to take of big note within the film outside of the rising acting power of Tyrese Gibson. The film focuses too much on the scantily clad babes and the adrenaline powered cars to hear how ridiculous the script actually sounds. When they finish talking their "street lingo", the lines they pop out sound cheesy and dry. But one does have to admit that with all the problems the film suffers from, the racing scenes are very well done. The special effects, as impressive as they are, still look pretty fake, which is pretty obvious. The charm of the original, if that was possible for some, was the realistic racing scenes. Most of those in the sequel are done on computer with only the actors placed in motionless cars against a blue screen in order to add the CGI later on. This was possibly the biggest disappointment of the film with nothing else expected from the sequel. The month of June looks bad enough with four horrible duds opening up next weekend but with a start like 2 Fast 2 Furious, there is only one thing to say: Disney and Pixar should make a real killing with Finding Nemo this month.
Rating: 
Summary: Big Improvment
Review: Anyone who says part one was way better is smokin somethin crazy. I had to force myself to like the first one. It tried to be a street racing movie but only had one race through the whole movie! This one has way better stunts, way more racing, hotter girls, better location, and the best part is there is no Vin Diesel. Whoever thought that guy could pass for an actor should be slapped. Tyrese comes in for his first major role and does great. He is super funny and you can tell in the acting that Paul Walker had a much better time acting with him in this one. The story behind the movie is all that irritated me. While busting a drug lord seems cool I think they should have kept it closer to the racing, which is the one way part one is superior. The soundtrack is way better in this one. It has no one from Murder Inc. in it which is a good thing, and its just packed with some of the best hip hop tracks I've heard all year. I really hope they make a third one.
Rating: 
Summary: No story; bad acting; and slow cars
Review: Summary:
Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) is a former cop turned fugitive whose hobby happens to be racing cars. Having left the L.A. area (the location of the first movie), he is finally caught in Miami. But instead of sending him to jail, the authorities have a proposition for him - help them bring down local drug lord Carter Verone (Cole Hauser) and they'll forget about his criminal record. Brian agrees, but only if he can choose his partner. So he chooses an old friend from his childhood days in Barstow, CA, ex-convict Roman Pearce (Tyrese). The DEA has an agent inside Verone's operation, Monica Fuentes (Eva Mendes), who hooks them up with a job to drive for Verone. But for some reason Verone has decided he is ready to leave the country, so he has only one job for Roman and Brian, pick up a bunch of cash and drive it to an airport where he can get out of the country. Roman and Brian, who are constantly fighting their police and DEA handlers, pull a few tricks in the process. The result, they pull off the job, get Verone his money, capture him, save Fuentes (who has fallen in love with Brian), and get away with some of the loot - what a surprise! My Comments:
Let's see, what does the movie have going for it... Story - terrible. Acting - even worse. Fast cars - nope. What? It doesn't even have fast cars? Unless you consider 85 mph fast, nope. The story is just plain silly. To begin with, Brian apparently has a massive rap sheet, but he was a cop? Um, are cops allowed to do that? I don't think so. Second, okay, let's pretend that the DEA would be willing to let Brian expunge his record in order to help them. And let's pretend even further that they would be willing to let a violent ex-convict be his partner. And let's pretend even further further that they would completely disregard that Brian and Roman break a gazillion laws every time they get in a car and that Roman shooting at a DEA agent at one point in order not to blow their cover is 'cool'. With all of this pretending, I just could not keep pretending when the movie has a highly successful drug lord use two cop-attracting racing cars to transport his money. I mean, I'm no drug lord, but if it were me, I'd use old women in Cadillacs; cops never pull them over. This has to be the silliest premise for a movie I have ever seen. The sole purpose is to present a situation where cars can go fast. Who cares that it would never happen, right? Well, why make it into a movie with the trimmings of a story if the story is so implausibly ridiculous that it would be better if it didn't exist? I don't get it. Another serious problem I had with the story and movie is the fact that every time you got more than one car racing lunatic together with another, it inevitably included about 100+ scantily clad women who were perfectly okay with the fact that they were just being used for their breasts and vaginas. The car racing culture portrayed in this movie doesn't exist (if you believe it does, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you in Brooklyn...). I'm supposed to believe that these women have nothing better to do with their time than sit around and watch people race cars, watercraft, etc. all day. They don't work? Please! As far as the acting goes, this are B-movie actors. No one is good. But since this movie isn't about the story or the acting, just about portraying a non-existent racing culture and fast cars, it shouldn't matter. But wait, the cars aren't fast... So, what was up with the cars only doing 80 to100 mph? I do 80 on my way to work in the morning. Maybe I should take a camera with me and make a movie. I drive a Honda Civic; does that mean I've got a racing machine? Heck, I've even driven 120 mph (not on the way to work, but that's another story...), which was about the fastest I think I saw the speedometers go. So, why is this movie called 2 Fast? Ideally it would be in reference to the length of the movie, as it would be in its best interest to get it over with quick, before anyone realizes that what they just saw was ridiculously stupid. Overall, I don't recommend this movie for anyone, except those people who actually believe their is a cool, car-racing underground culture where stuff like this actually happens. Sure, people race cars, but do they gather around several thousand people and close down streets to do it? Only if they are as stupid as the makers of this movie and want to go to jail. Don't see this movie!
Rating:
Summary: Horrible sequel to a GREAT movie that was original
Review: This movie seemed like it took 2 days to write the script. It begins with the star of the first film Brian O' Conner racing his Nissan Skyline to make some money. I live in Downtown Miami and there could never be a race around downtown that fast without some driver running over a group of kids or seniors. The police shoot Paul Walker's car with a ...looking gun and coerce him into going undercover to infiltrate a money launderer/soft gangster named Carter Verone(Cole Hauser). Brian says he wants a partner, Roman Pearce played by Tyrese. Why does there HAVE to be actors in movies just because they are somewhat good looking. The Fast and the Furious was a great movie and this one pretty much erases all the credibilty and respect that the original had. Paul Walker should have demanded creative control and made sure it did not end up ... LIKE IT DID. The people that saw this movie in the theatres do not have a life and anyone who enjoyed it is on some kind of controlled substance or alcohol.
Rating:
Summary: Horrible. Just horrible
Review: I must admit, this only furthers my current displeasure with modern society. If all it takes to be entertained is to see some cars going fast, then why not save the 20 bucks and then just go outside and watch cars go by? It's more realistic, and as far as I can tell the plot of it would be the same as the movie. Seriously, our world (but specifically this country) is full of morons who value idiocy over intelligence.
Rating:
Summary: Pretty lame
Review: Computer car stunts? Have we all forgotten the lessons of the 1970's, where a couple of good car wrecks could save an otherwise lousy movie?
I'm being generous giving this 2 stars. John Singleton is horrible and should immedietly be deported to the former Soviet Union.
Lame cars, action, lame everything. Go rent Hooper instead.
Rating:
Summary: JUST HORRIBLE!
Review: This movie showed us a whole new level of bad movies. From the unrealistic car scenes, to the abundant plot holes this movie has you falling asleep from the beginning. The first movie showed us that nitrous can make a car slightly faster, but the second movie showed us that nitrous will allow you to reach light speed somehow. When the cars in this movie use nitrous it somehow has the same effect as the space ships do in Star Wars when they travel through light speed. When anyone seems to use nitrous everything gets kind of burry and all you see are streaking lights like Star Wars uses. All the car scenes in this movie are totally unrealistic. The fact that we are supposed to believe that an EVO and an Eclipse are going to stand a prayer next to a Saleen Mustang, a Dodge Viper, and a Corvette Z06 is very insulting to anyone in the automotive world. The plot in this movie leaves nothing to the imagination as we are supposed to believe that this Paul Walker guy turns up missing and the police are after him, but then the next thing we know he is working for the police with his buddy who was also running from the law at one point. This is a movie that you want to miss!
Rating:
Summary: Just 2 Great!
Review: What can I say? Well, I can say alot, but I'll try to sum up my excitement in less than 1,000 words, which is nearly impossible! Paul Walker has done it again in this action-packed fun-filled sequel which takes you on a wild ride through the streets of Miami in some of the fastest and coolest looking cars ever created! The woman in the movie (Eva Mendes), is possibly one of the hottest creatures ever created by God! Any fan of the first movie will enjoy this one as well. Even though Vin Diesel couldn't make it, the movie still gets by without him. Tyrese delivers and awesome performance as Roman Pierce; the destruction derby bad boy from Barstow! This movie can do no wrong!
Rating:
Summary: A Really Exciting, Spine-Tingling Thriller!
Review: I have nothing but good comments about 2 Fast 2 Furious. It was much better than the last "Furious" movie. Cliffhangers came around every corner, death surrendered to no one, and the cars were completely "tricked-out." Even I, a major tech person, loved this movie. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants a DVD for a keeper.
Rating:
Summary: surplanar
Review: the movie to me seems to be one of the best
among the best
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