The Fast and the Furious
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Live life 1/4 mile at a time.
Domenic Toretto is a Los Angeles street racer suspected of masterminding a series of big-rig hijackings. When undercover cop Brian O'Conner infiltrates Toretto's iconoclastic crew, he falls for Toretto's sister and must choose a side: the gang or the LAPD.
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"I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I'm free."
The Fast and the Furious = Point Break on wheels, and personally, I prefer cars than surf boards.
The Fast and the Furious is fun to watch, cars, cheesy lines, a mindless story and cool car stunts. There are no twists or surprises, what you see is what you get.
This is a nostalgia film if you have follow the franchise, this is the beginning and the introduction to most of the characters. The Fast and the Furious is a shameless copy of mindless action films, that in a way is better than those originals.
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Yo, Michael Bay!
Yeah, you!
Come over here!
This! See! This!
THIS is how you do an entertaining dumb summer blockbuster.
THAT *points to Transformers 3* is not!
Get it?
Now go make a good movie or piss off.
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I have only myself to blame.
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Vastly superior to anything Kubrick or Kurosawa or Malick or Tarkovsky or any of those other pretentious wankers ever did. Five stars worth of acting, writing, directing, cinematography, and entertainment. Glorious. Simply Glorious.
Why else would they have made, like, a dozen of these?
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The Fast And The Furious is loud and obnoxious and loud and fun and loud and annoying and loud. And when I say loud I'm not talking about the drag racing. Every single moment of this film is accompanied by some horrific, in-your-face techno/rap song, as if director Rob Cohen was using the film as some sort of demo reel to get a job at MTV. The film literally exhausts an entire soundtrack's worth of songs in the first twenty minutes, not even bothering to actually mix any of them. No, the same scene could play host to three or four different songs, where one will just randomly stop and another will start, as if Cohen was given a 45…
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A fun and enjoyable dumb action movie with likeable characters and well done action set-pieces. Yes the acting isn't great in the slightest, neither is the dialogue, and it's a little outdated but it's fun and a solid start to the franchise. And, while I don't remember the other sequels much (I will be revisiting them before Fast 6 though), it's the second best in the series behind Fast Five of course. Someone needs to show Rob Cohen how to keep the camera still though.
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It is entertaining. Cohen can't direct car chases to save his life, but the wooden acting and cheesy script somehow make this 'fun' enough.
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The Fast And The Furious is loud and obnoxious and loud and fun and loud and annoying and loud. And when I say loud I'm not talking about the drag racing. Every single moment of this film is accompanied by some horrific, in-your-face techno/rap song, as if director Rob Cohen was using the film as some sort of demo reel to get a job at MTV. The film literally exhausts an entire soundtrack's worth of songs in the first twenty minutes, not even bothering to actually mix any of them. No, the same scene could play host to three or four different songs, where one will just randomly stop and another will start, as if Cohen was given a 45…
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"Try Fatburger from now on. Get yourself a Double Cheese with fries for $2.95, faggot."
A lot has changed since 2001. I mean, getting a double cheese burger and fries from Fatburger for under three bucks, what a crock of bull. I mean now, just regular fries are going to set you back three bucks, and then add a double cheese burger on top of that, and your probably looking at over ten bucks. Yup, a lot has changed since 2001.
Overall, I think most of the action/chase scenes in The Fast and the Furious are handled pretty well, so it is unfortunate that aesthetically the movie is ugly as sin. The one actual street race in the film feature…
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Pretty standard undercover-cop actioner, made awesome by great stunt driving, good performances, and a script that actually allowed for character.
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Yep, Fast Five was a fluke in an otherwise mediocre franchise.
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Almost exactly what I was expecting. One surprise, though: I figured there would be some fun, gratuitous style flourishes, but didn’t think it would be so cinematically interesting. The way they edited the racing scenes, the warps and perspective shifts, reminded me of the welding scene in Thief. It goes from a more neutral third-person observer perspective into this subjective-experience interpretive moment. Nicely done. It’s not high drama, but credit for making some gestures towards character-building, even though that’s not the point. And there’s a fun soundtrack.
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"I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I'm free."
The Fast and the Furious = Point Break on wheels, and personally, I prefer cars than surf boards.
The Fast and the Furious is fun to watch, cars, cheesy lines, a mindless story and cool car stunts. There are no twists or surprises, what you see is what you get.
This is a nostalgia film if you have follow the franchise, this is the beginning and the introduction to most of the characters. The Fast and the Furious is a shameless copy of mindless action films, that in a way is better than those originals.
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I have only myself to blame.
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Fast cars, hot women, smart thieves, undercover cops, and loud music.
It's pretty much everything you'd want in a big dumb popcorn flick.