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.
Paul Walker Vin Diesel Michelle Rodriguez Jordana Brewster Rick Yune Chad Lindberg Johnny Strong Ted Levine Matt Schulze Thom Barry Ja Rule Vyto Ruginis Stanton Rutledge Noel Gugliemi RJ de Vera Beau Holden Reggie Lee David Douglas Peter Navy Tuiasosopo F. Valentino Morales Neal H. Moritz Rob Cohen Kevin Smith Doria Anselmo Glenn K. Ota Mike White Delphine Pacific Monica Tamayo Megan Baker Show All…
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Ja Rule enters a street race because if he wins he’ll get to have a threesome and then when somebody passes him he screams “Nooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!”
Let's be honest, this film shouldn't work. It is stupid, shallow and lacking originality apart from perhaps the setting. It deals in stereotypes, dishes out action tropes by the second and has a plot as skinny as all the girls that apparently inhabit the realms of drag racing. On top of that it stars one of the most uncharismatic leading men ever produced in Hollywood.
Now, if you can't step over this you are bound to hate it. If you can, you're in for an enjoyable romp that provides just the right amount of testosterone induced adrenaline, making it entertaining enough to forgive it that it is a complete no-brainer.
Rob Cohen isn't the subtlest of directors, but his filmography…
Me: "What's the difference between a car and a woman?"
TFatF: "They both got sweet ass curves, and you can ride 'em both all night long, brah!"
Me: "No. The difference."
TFatF: "What?"
Me: "The difference. How are they different, distinct, dissimilar, disparate?"
. . .
TFatF: "The woman one cooks me food?"
Completely devoid of any real, human interaction, almost fascinatingly stupid and just an incredibly awful, awful movie that I’m still glad exists.
One or two of the action setpieces work – primarily the first drag race when Paul Walker and Vin Diesel are driving at lightspeed because of a little red NOS button that came straight out of a video game – and though it’s the most colorful of the series, and there’s some unintentionally amazing homoerotic undertones going on, Cohen just isn’t competent enough to stage any of this in interesting ways and doesn’t come even remotely close to embracing the level of dumbness this film needed. I like the fact that it’s earnest, but Cohen’s inability to see…
FURIOUS marathon to prep for FURIOUS 7 and upcoming Top 5 Fast & Furious Moments
Top 5 Contenders: N/A
Not Top 5 Contenders: Any Ja Rule scene... Paul Walker's horribly unconvincing lie explaining why he was prowling around a competitor's garage... Vin Diesel's insipid, uninspired (you know, by the story) family confession and "quarter mile at a time" speech.
Far more watchable than I remember it, but alas, no real revisionist history here. If you're going to rip off POINT BREAK that blatantly, then I'm going to say that, despite Walker's best Bill & Ted effort, Brian Spillner doesn't come anywhere close to matching Johnny Utah's earnest intensity or (much-needed, considering) sense of humor... Diesel left me longing for the charisma of Patrick Swayze... and it would have been nice to have even a hint of true internal conflict over Brian's attraction to Toretto's team and ethos. Suppose they'd actually have to give Toretto an ethos first.
Vaya con Dios, Brah.
THE ROAD TO FAST NINE BEGINS...
FACT: The first fist fight in the FAST AND FURIOUS saga happens because Paul Walker likes tuna sandwiches.
WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME TED LEVINE IS IN THIS MOVIE? Does he come back for future installments?! Wait, don't tell me. I wanna be surprised.
This movie works because of the actors. Paul Walker is just so damn likable. Vin is goofily amusing, yet surprisingly good at the emotional scenes (the one of him talking about is father impressed me). Michelle is a badass and Jordana is adorably badass.
The dated race scenes with the background zooming out hyperspeed like and using the laptop during an insanely fast face.
Ja Rule yelling out "Monicaaaaaaa!" when…
There's so much American Machismo packed into this movie that I could almost smell the Axe Body Spray to this day.
This film, on every level, should be a horrible trash fire or one of the funniest parodies of masculinity out there. But the actors are playing everything so straight that it somehow becomes incredibly entertaining to watch. Every scene is a cliche of some sort and the effects are horribly dated, but that's where all the charm really comes from.
It's a time capsule to a different age of film and it hurts to think this is nearly a 20-year-old franchise now. But somehow it stands as a timeless piece of entertainment that's always a fun watch.
My first look into this world was actually Hobbs and Shaw, which I watched last year. Had never seen any of the Fast movies before that.
I don't understand how we got from The Fast and the Furious to Hobbs & Shaw. They aren't even in the same realm of film.
Unfortunately that shaped my experience watching this movie because there weren't nearly enough explosions OR gun fights OR Dwayne Johnson's.
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