The Fast and the Furious Reviews

This is a bad, bad movie. Skip it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Sure it's a guilty pleasure watching stunt drivers put flashy state-of-the-art streetcars through impossibly daring maneuvers, but it's a happy indulgence nonetheless.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

... when characters are not racing at breakneck speed, the movie as a whole ceases to move.

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It's all testosterone and swagger, and tries so hard to be cool that it's just the opposite.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Not Point Break so much as Point Less.

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An exciting second-tier action flick.

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A gritty and gratifying cheap thrill, Rob Cohen's high-octane hot-car meller is a true rarity these days, a really good exploitationer, the sort of thing that would rule at drive-ins if they still existed.

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While few of the paper-thin characters register long enough to make much of an impression, Diesel carries the movie with his unsettling mix of Zen-like tranquillity and barely controlled rage.

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It runs out of gas.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

This is probably the most fun to be had at the multiplex so far this year.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

From first frame to last, this is an unabashedly B-Picture, elevated by A-level stunts but dragged down to C-level characterizations.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Returning the series to solid ground after 2 Fast 2 Furious leaned too heavily on cartoonish CGI effects, Tokyo Drift relies on old-fashioned stunt work that gives its best sequences a sense of brute physicality.

Full Review | Original Score: C

...ultimately entertaining enough to warrant a mild recommendation...

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

It doesn't matter that we know where it's going, what counts is that Cohen keeps his pedal to the floor and that his actors gun their lines with absolute conviction. Loud cars, fast music: this movie knows exactly what it's about.

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At first it's an exhilarating ride with original action scenes that quickly become routine when they are thrown at the audience over and over.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

A film that stays true to what it tries to be.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Visually striking thriller.

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The plot gets ridiculous as it's slowly revealed that one of them isn't what they seem to be at first, and continues to get more preposterous, but with better car crashes!

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

What is unforgivable is that many of the racing scenes were boring too.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

It's dumb as a post, sure, but man, does it get your heart pounding and the adrenaline racing through your bloodstream.

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