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Summary: Good for what it was
Review: 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.
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Summary: Not "cinema", but a fun movie.
Review: This is one of those great horrible movies. In four or five years, this will be on TNT or TBS "Movies for Guys Who Love Movies" repeating 3 times a week. As with other awesome terrible movies, this has redeeming factors. Certainly not the acting, though Vin Diesel does a decent job, above everyone else's phone-in of the dialogue. The music, race scenes and cinematography are pretty well done. Basically, you have to determine what your mindset is prior to viewing. I went in knowing that this was no Citizen Kane, and had a blast. Other people in the theater thought it was legitimate cinema, not eye candy, and were really disappointed. I'm rating it 3-stars, but if you want a low-impact fun movie, to "let the art flow over you", this is the one. The interesting thing is that this is a repeat of another movie. I realized this a half-hour into it, and proceeded to exclaim aloud during a midnight showing. (Side note: The only reason I was there was that a transformer blew and it was August in Phoenix. So I had to seek refuge in a cool place until repairs were made.) I did not regret seeing the film - it was eye candy. Though I had to watch my speed on the drive home in my own "rice wagon". One other reviewer got it right. It's Point Break! Take the script for the other thespian (Keanu Reeves, not Paul Walker), do a find-and-replace on "surf", "bank robbery", and "FBI", and replace them with "cars", "cargo hijacking", and "LAPD", and you get the EXACT same movie. They're so similar, it's eerie. Once I get the DVD, I'm going to put the Point Break VHS in and listen to that audio with the F&F video feed and see if they match. I can see it now. Paul Walker confronting Vin Diesel, with Keanu's voice (as he reproaches Patrick Swayze)"You got greedy! And it went bad!" The only difference is that we know Johnny Utah is in the FBI first, then he's a wannabe surfer; where Brian O'Conner is a wannabe racer, THEN we learn he's LAPD. That's probably enough to avoid a lawsuit. The editorial review compared it to "Donnie Brasco". Come on. There are no Oscars in this film. Others have compared it to Gone in 60 Seconds, which was a bad terrible movie, one in which Oscar-winners (Cage, Jolie, Duvall) obviously had some bills to pay. Also, American Graffiti was a classic coming-of-age character study, with the car culture (in a different valley - the San Joaquin) as a backdrop only. Though Graffiti was equally endearing, it was for different reasons. F&F was a fun movie - just start it with no expectations, and you'll be pleasantly surprised.
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Summary: The Fast and The Furious - Great Action, Poor Acting
Review: The last film Rob Cohen and Neal Moritz teamed up to make, "The Skulls", exposed its audience to the dealings of a prestigious Ivy secret society of the same name; a name that would conjure up images of long-bearded, forty-plus year old men, fully clad in tasseled leather apparel cruising the streets of suburbia on their two-wheeled "crotch rockets".
Actually, the previous description is remarkably similar to a scene in Cohen/Morits'z latest production, "The Fast and The Furious". All you've got to do is replace the long-bearded, forty-plus year old men with a couple of well-mannered Asian gentlemen, the leader of whom is a well portrayed character Johnny Tran (Rick Yune). Recycle a main character from "The Skulls", Caleb Mandrake (Paul Walker) and give him a "typical whiteboy name", Brian Spilner, and you've got a new movie.
Spilner is a young undercover officer trying to find out what group of street-racers is hijacking semis worth millions of dollars before the truckers, the short-tempered hooligans they are, take matters into their own hands. And if Spilner cracks the case he'll have the opportunity to become a detective-his dream ever since he was just a young lad put in juvie for boosting cars, an experience that he never really had, but that ends up helping him later in life.
Somewhere after putting movies like "She's All That" behind him and stepping up to the plate in "Varsity Blues" and "The Skulls", Walker seems to have lost the ability to put sentences together in a believable tone of voice. It's hard not to think Walker slipped into a couple of classes at Keanu Reeves's School of Acting, as seen on SNL. On more than one occasion, his acting is outdone by a couple of bed-wetting elementary schoolers doing a production of "A Christmas Carol". Walker's bad acting is particularly flagrant in a scene where Spilner has to convince the kingpin of the illegal street-racing world, Dominic Toretto (Vin Deisel), that he isn't a cop. Not very convincing now, are we? Toretto bought it, yet I surely hope he kept his receipt. Walker's acting was sadly disappointing.
On the other hand, Toretto (or "Dom" as he is lovingly called by his groupies, er...I mean "team") is played well by Deisel. He plays the role with thoughtfulness and sincerity to his character. He's a badass when he has to be, yet nice enough to fool you into believing he's a slightly oversized Teddy Ruxpin. Maybe not. With a name like Vin Deisel you can't help but be ready to land your fist into the darkside of someone's face, but a little Zanex never hurt anyone. In all seriousness, Deisel plays one of the better roles of his career in this movie, aside from the minor roles he played in 2000's "Boiler Room" and in 1998's "Saving Private Ryan".
I do realize I just compared "The Fast and The Furious" to the award-winning "Saving Private Ryan", but not without due respect. The level of intensity reached in the movie is exhilarating and pulls the viewer directly into the driver's seat of a 600 horsepower pile of sheet metal that rockets from zero to sixty in less than five seconds. Upon viewing the film, I caught myself with wide-open eyes and a dropped jaw more than once.
If you're wondering where the scantily clad women are in the film, you've not much farther to look than Toretto's little sister Mia (Jordana Brewster). Brewster playfully tantalizes you with her ultra low-rise jeans and skimpy t-shirts, but more so she attracts the attention of Spilner similarly to how cheap coffee and donuts attract L.A. police officers. Oddly enough, Spilner's higher-up police officials are typecasted as Starbucks drinking, bagel eating men who occupy a house that was originally designed for Elizabeth Taylor back in the 1950's.
As with most movies of this sort, there always has to be at least one hotheaded moron with raging fists and a mental incapacity for any common sense. Well, here you'll find a couple, most of whom are a part of Toretto's team and most of whom must have made Walker their mentor and inspiration for acting. This does nothing but bring even more laughter from the audience for a movie that could use an extra laugh or two.
At any rate, Cohen does an excellent job keeping the action moving throughout the film; and the plot, while rather basic with no mysterious twists, is appealing and does well to hold the viewer's attention. Spilner's typical white-boy attitude matures into one of respect, even though he still has a thing for disobedience. However, the ending is the kind that doesn't seem to leave many viewers happy and which just hankers for a sequel. Rumor has it it's already in the making. I just hope the second shares the same passion for adrenaline as the first, and a lot better acting.
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Summary: A 14 year old car lover
Review: Sweet movie. If u like cars u'll like this. ITs more of a movie for teens. Heard alot of old people didnt like it
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Summary: Cheap thrills
Review: 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.
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Summary: Awesome movie
Review: Although I'm not a fan of imports( I prefer American muscle), this movie was pretty awesome. When I left the theater, I RACED out of the parking lot, this movie makes you want to speed. Jordana Brewster and the 69 Charger were the highlights of the movie. Can't wait to own it.
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Summary: Made me want to speed ...
Review: ...and I don't even have a license! This is pretty good movie. Predictable to an extent, but good. The action scenes are phenomenal. It is your typical guy flick, I will have to admit. Fast cars and hot chicks. Plot: rookie undercover cop trying to bust midnight racers, Racers are trying to make a car that can go a quarter mile in 10 seconds. Not quite gone in 60 seconds caliber but close. ;)
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Summary: good movie
Review: A great fast paced car movie that is enjoyable for almost anyone. I personally am a rodder (I build and race pre-'54 car), so I was expecting it to be a movie only "tuners" would like cause of the rice burners but turned out to be wrong. Also in the end, it becomes apparent that only a real man (or woman) has what it takes to drive real cars (ooooh, importboy afraid of the big bad charger!)
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Summary: All shinny and no back-bone.
Review: From the first time I seen this movie I noticed something, it was a movie that was about a bunch of really nice cars and not much of a story plot. I thought the movie was good but I am the time that looks for a good story plot. If you are one of those people that like a good plot this is not the movie for you. If you just like the cover of the book and not what is in it, then this movie is for you. I would recommend renting it before even thinking about buying this movie.
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Summary: GOOD MOVIE!!!
Review: This is a great movie, its a present day representation of American Graphiti and Gone in 60 seconds(1974) except with an import car craze. it shows how cars never go out of style and they are just represented differently, of course im a little bit more partial to a 1967 Shelby GT500, but this is definetly worth getting.
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