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The Fast and the Furious (Widescreen)

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3 star:		(46)
2 star:		(39)
1 star:		(89)

 

 

If Stanley Kubrick were still alive, he'd beg for mercy at the feet of Rob Cohen, who directed this gem of a film. Fast cars, MTV-style editing, girls passed off as nothing more than sex objects, brilliant acting, rap star cameos, and much, much more! Sometimes I didn't think I could handle it all in one sitting. In fact, after the part where Vin Diesel says, "You break her heart, I'll break your neck," I had to immediately switch the movie off to regain my state of mind. I mean, the script for this movie is simply brilliant. "Since you were the first one to reach in and grab the chicken, you say grace." WOW! Does that not reek of genius? Somebody please get me a damn bucket of cold water to splash over my face so I can come to my senses and try to remember that it's only a movie.

There's no two ways about it: you MUST get this new "tricked out" DVD edition, which is essential to your film library. It will look nice sandwiched between your copies of "Raging Bull" and "Dr. Strangelove" on your DVD shelf. Impress your friends with the "tricked out" edition; a DVD incantation which puts any Criterion release to utter shame!

Well, folks, I'm rambling. "The Fast and the Furious" is a great, great movie. Almost as great as sarcasm.

Words can't describe how important this film is. Not only is it the beginning of one of the best action franchises in cinema history, it is a fun and original film. Not many films before this have done the idea of street racing so successfully, it has some great actors (Vin Diesel!) and the heist scene at the end is an action scene you will never forget! Highly recommended.

The Fast and the Furious is a good example of a trend that is fashionable in Hollywood these days -- taking a grade 'B' concept, idea or script and dressing it up as a grade 'A' movie. ...The movie revolves around the latest craze in street racing. Young people are taking the lowliest cars, such as Honda Civics, and converting them into lean, mean street machines. These vehicles are incredibly fast, their power often enhanced by nitrous oxide injectors. They look to be both dangerous and expensive, but that's a lot of their appeal. Frankly, I'd like to drive one myself.

The movie opens with a bang, a visual adrenaline / testosterone combo rush in which several guys and a girl in supercharged little black cars attack and rob a semi truck as it roars down an interstate highway. The scene reminds me of the old Westerns where robbers attacked a moving stagecoach. It's a silly scene because it's so obviously impossible, but it's also totally exhilarating to watch. In real life, if you absolutely must rob a semi, try one that's parked.

The plot involves a not-so-bright ...[man] named Brian [Paul Walker] who infiltrates a group of street racers led by the charismatic Dominic [Vin Diesel]. The group may or may not be the thieves. Along the way, Brian must prove his worth as a racer, and these scenes involve some rather amazing races along the streets of LA. He also manages to fall in love with Dominic's sister, Mia [Jordana Brewster]. Incidentally, the plot seems ...

Vin Diesel dominates the cast. He was also appealing in two movies in 2000, Pitch Black and Boiler Room. He is probably our next great action star. Paul Walker, who sounds like Keanu Reeves and looks like the young Rob Lowe, makes a good white bread kind of hero. Brewster and Michelle Rodriguez are great to look at, but this is a guy flick, so it's hard to gauge their acting skills here.

The Fast and the Furious is one of the most visually interesting movies of 2001. Director Rob Cohen keeps everything, well, fast and furious. The movie is in constant movement. The photography is outstanding. The colors and lighting create an LA that is appropriately dreamlike, since we know that all the things we are seeing could only really happen in a movie. This is street racing and crime as a fantasy.

This movie may be all style and no substance. It's a guilty pleasure, trash mixd with class....

this movie is sick. action, cars, and girls (who obviously wrote the bad reviews cause this is a total guy movie). check this out and screw the haters!

"The Fast And The Furious" is obviously a guilty pleasure. The movie has amazing cars, attractive women (Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster), corny dialogues, summer movie visual stunts, bad actors (Vin Diesel) and a MTV movie soundtrack. But the funny thing is that the movie works despite all that (or perhaps because all that).

"The Fast And The Furious" is an amusing movie because the director and cast never pretended to be part of a groundbreaking film, they knew that they were filming a popcorn movie, so they enjoyed the whole process, and the result is evident, "The Fast And The Furious" is an entertaining movie.

Of course, this kind of trick only works once, but Hollywood don't care, the studios love to repeat successful formulas, even if they know they are going to release a bad movie, they do it because they also know that it's going to do well in the box office. So Hollywood made a sequel, "2 Fast 2 Furious", but obviously that movie is just average or below average. This kind of formulas (cars + visual effects + attractive women) only work once.

Anyway, "The Fast And The Furious" it's a very amusing, entertaining film. I would recommend you to rent it first, and if you like it a lot, well, get it. If you don't like it that much, at least you will have a good time for two hours.

This is Better then number 2 by far!This actually concentrate about streeting racing then in part 2.They were actually true street racers in this film i mean how cool is that.This is explore the culture of street racing is all about how people come together and race.Cars were really nice and sweat and i mean SWEAT!Shows you how young teen people or young adults blow there money on there cars then on other stuff to make them stand out or faster then others.

The plot was really focusing on the main character Paul And Vin alot to show you who they really are and the others characters as well.Some of the movie had a bit amount of mistakes buts all good but this is one movie its all about how race your car not stand next to it.

I must have watched the film 20 times over, and it never seems to get tiredsome,it's full of illegal racing,attractive women.This film is the film that brought street racing in the public eye, it;s every where.With a great cast paul walker and Vin Diesel, the plot is forgotten.When i'm cruising in my bad boy Nova it's guarenteed that you'll see an atempt at reconstucting some of the cars, the skyline, the evo, honda s2000 ,the honda civics and the ever popular toyota supra with the graphics which i see people coping all the time.

I have to say that this movie did have its good points, to any women reading this review, Paul Walker and Van Diesel are HOT! The cars are cool and the racing rocks (though stupid and should only be in a Hollywood movie and not on "real" streets)! I have to admit that the plot is pretty much non-existant and some scenes could have been left on the cutting room floor. I gave this movie 3 stars because;
1) The cars are really cool!
2) Paul Walker and Van Diesel are hot! and
3) You have to give credit where credit is due, it was a well filmed movie and the camera angles were also very well done, (I work with filming TV and so I see little mistakes in everything, but this one I saw hardly anything. That gives it a thumbs up from me).
I realise some of my stuff is bias but I actually liked the movie. So for what its worth, if you go to your local video store and buy a "previously viewed" version for $15 or less its a good movie.
But please, DO NOT TRY ANY OF THE STUNTS AT HOME! Because if that's your plan than don't bother watching it. Thank you and good night!

First let me say, I never saw this in the theaters, rather rented the DVD and I did so for really only one reason. You see, I own a black Dodge Charger (mines a '69 whereas the movies a '70) with a 440 and for the past year or so I have been challenged so many times I had to know what was causing this.
So, one day after completely blowing away some idiot in a canary yellow Toyota with bright blue flames on the side and a spoiler I decided to allow him to catch up (that was more of challenge as my car idles at around 20 mph) and asked him what convinced him and the army of others in similar import cars to think he could even come close to beating me. He said he saw it in this movie so on a whim I decided to give it a shot and I found out something very interesting.
This movie is bad; in fact I would gamble to say it's one of the worst things I have ever seen in my life (on par with 'Speed 2'). The acting was sub-par, the stunts were over-blown, the script was absolute nonsense (and no, I for one cannot just over look that as so many claim I should).
You know, I'm 24 and can... kind of... see why some would like this, but I can't disengage my mind long enough.

Matt

PS - There is no way that '70 Charger in the flick would have a problem beating any car on the road (import or not), let alone what it was racing.

This movie was absolutely pathetic. It is everything that is wrong with America. The music is obnoxious and moronic, the acting sucks, (...) the plot was wretched, it was horrible! There arent enough adjectives to describe the horror of this movie. "Cool" cars, "hot" women (not really Michelle Rodriguez kinda has a mustache), gangsters, racing, in other words totally original (haha)! The WORST thing about this movie though is that it spawned the creation of other films similar to it that disease our society and rot our minds like XXX, 2Fast2Furious, to name the most obvious.