Fast & FuriousDirector: Justin Lin
Starring: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez & Jordana Brewster
Genre: Action
Rated: R
Tag line: New Model. Original Parts.
My rating: 4 stars
Plot: Taking place five years after the original, The Fast & the Furious, Dominic Toretto returns home when news reaches of him of a fallen friend. Vowing revenge, Dominic is thrust back into the life he left behind, having to turn away old grudges of FBI agent and former friend, Brian O'Connor. As a team, both men hunt down a common enemy.
Review: Like many of you, I'd given up hope on The Fast & the Furious fra
nchise after seeing 2 Fast 2 Furious. The latest installment was a thorn in my spine the moment I heard the original team was back. That can only mean one of two things: The movie can revive the dying franchise that had to suffer through horrible sequels that, bringing back enthusiasm into the movies, not using recycled material for the sake of explosions; or it could bring the hatchet down, leaving the series crawling on its knees, dying, hoping for some sort of mercy kill that Hollywood refuses to give other franchises that have suffered badsequelitis (ahem, Saw!)
Fast & Furious, however, offers us something its predecessors (meaning just the sequels) failed
to deliver: Good acting. Paul Walker and Vin Diesel have a good chemistry; Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster offer up even better chemistry when mixed in with the male leads. Even though most will say that the movie is a mental masturbation - don't get me wrong because with all the explosions, the fast cars, the hot babes, the fighting, shooting, the car chases, reunited old characters, exciting plot line and so on, it is very much a mental masturbation - but to call it anything less than a stellar movie is just begging for something that will never be, a sequel that will out live the original.
Before I get too much into it and wind up spoiling it for you who still haven't seen it - it's been a
month guys, what are you waiting for? - the one thing that truly disappointed me was the half promise stated in the tag line: "New model. Original parts." While the gang is all present in the movie, the events leave on member sitting out for most of it due to the circumstances that I will not get into. You'll just have dish out the bucks to see it for yourself.
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nchise after seeing 2 Fast 2 Furious. The latest installment was a thorn in my spine the moment I heard the original team was back. That can only mean one of two things: The movie can revive the dying franchise that had to suffer through horrible sequels that, bringing back enthusiasm into the movies, not using recycled material for the sake of explosions; or it could bring the hatchet down, leaving the series crawling on its knees, dying, hoping for some sort of mercy kill that Hollywood refuses to give other franchises that have suffered badsequelitis (ahem, Saw!)Fast & Furious, however, offers us something its predecessors (meaning just the sequels) failed
to deliver: Good acting. Paul Walker and Vin Diesel have a good chemistry; Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster offer up even better chemistry when mixed in with the male leads. Even though most will say that the movie is a mental masturbation - don't get me wrong because with all the explosions, the fast cars, the hot babes, the fighting, shooting, the car chases, reunited old characters, exciting plot line and so on, it is very much a mental masturbation - but to call it anything less than a stellar movie is just begging for something that will never be, a sequel that will out live the original.Before I get too much into it and wind up spoiling it for you who still haven't seen it - it's been a
month guys, what are you waiting for? - the one thing that truly disappointed me was the half promise stated in the tag line: "New model. Original parts." While the gang is all present in the movie, the events leave on member sitting out for most of it due to the circumstances that I will not get into. You'll just have dish out the bucks to see it for yourself.(photo source)
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