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Fast & Furious (2009)

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Reviews Counted:165

Fresh:46

Rotten:119

Average Rating:4.5/10

Consensus: While Fast and Furious features the requisite action and stunts, the filmmakers have failed to provide a competent story or compelling characters.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for intense sequences of violence and action, some sexual content, language and drug references.

Runtime: 1 min 47 secs

Genre: Action/Adventure

Theatrical Release:Apr 3, 2009 Wide

Box Office: $155,022,220

Synopsis: This fourth entry in THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS franchise reunites the original stars: Michelle Rodriguez, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, and of course the bad dude himself, Vin Diesel. Needless to... This fourth entry in THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS franchise reunites the original stars: Michelle Rodriguez, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, and of course the bad dude himself, Vin Diesel. Needless to say, there's going to be a lot of speed and demolition, especially in the fantastic opening truck hijack executed at amazing speeds by Dominic (Diesel) and his sexy partner in crime, Letty (Rodriguez). When Letty gets killed, it's revenge time, with the path of the bad guy leading Dominic back across the border to Los Angeles (where he's still wanted by the law) and into a high-stakes street race in which he's teamed up with his old nemesis, undercover fed Brian O'Conner (Walker). As in the original, Brewster makes a foxy love interest for Walker (she's Dom's kid sister), but there's not much time for kissing: there's races to be won, huge accidents to cause, and shady smuggling plots to foil. Fans of the series should be too busy digging the NO2-powered action to notice if there's anything missing in the storyline, which caterwauls along with gleeful abandon and disregard for logic, sanity, and speed limits. Directed with a sure hand by Justin Lin (TOKYO DRIFT), FAST & FURIOUS features loads of hot babes, and Diesel is as ripped, raging, and gravel-voiced deadpan as ever. [More]

Starring: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster

Starring: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, John Ortiz, Laz Alonso, Gal Gadot, Shea Whigham, Tego Calderon

Director: Justin Lin

Director: Justin Lin
Screenwriter: Chris Morgan
Producer: Neal H. Moritz, Vin Diesel, Michael Fottrell
Composer: Bryan Tyler
Studio: Universal Pictures

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Jul 28, 2009

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Isn't worth even the most forgiving action fan's time...

Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
12/13/09
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

One of the film's biggest laughs is showing title credits. Clearly, after a prologue in which thieves play chicken with a burning, tumbling oil tanker, the possibility exists this is a Steven Soderbergh experimental gamble. Dumb, fun & entertaining.

Full Review Source: Suite101.com | comment Comment
09/21/09
Nick Rogers
Nick Rogers
Suite101.com

Lin makes the few set pieces sandwiched between the many flat, talky scenes count as much as they can.

Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | comment Comment
09/13/09
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

'Fast & Furious?' The stars of this sequel are more like Sluggish & Vaguely Grumpy, though it's nothing a little bit of fiber in their diets couldn't cure.

Full Review Source: Florida Times-Union | comment Comment
09/10/09
Matt Soergel
Matt Soergel
Florida Times-Union

'Neat to watch' summarizes the film quite nicely. The revenge subplot that drives Fast and Furious is uninteresting since we haven't seen these characters in eight years.

Full Review Source: Washington Times | comment Comment
08/30/09
Sonny Bunch
Sonny Bunch
Washington Times

Fast & Furious is a piece of junk, but at least it is an entertaining and endearing piece of junk. For a franchise I actively dislike, this is the best of the bunch.

Full Review Source: UGO | comment Comment
08/14/09
Jordan Hoffman
Jordan Hoffman
UGO

General unoriginality contributes to 'The Fast and the Furious' series' own issue as a 'seen one, seen 'em all' series.

Full Review Source: ReelTalk Movie Reviews | comment Comment
08/04/09
Jeffrey Chen
Jeffrey Chen
ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Fast & Furious could be called Grand Theft Autopilot. Lin knows that his demographic doesn't care about truth. They want to see stuff smash up - and in as outlandish and outrageous a way possible.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
07/26/09
Bill Gibron
Bill Gibron
PopMatters

A completely disposable action movie.

Full Review Source: CNNRadio | comment Comment
07/17/09
Paul Chambers
Paul Chambers
CNNRadio

The dialogue resembled bad '80s porn with extreme overacting and cheesy one-liners. Ironically, Fast & Furious is like porn, you want them to shut up and get to the action!

Full Review Source: BET.com | comment Comment
06/10/09
Clay Cane
Clay Cane
BET.com

works as a mindless collection of racing sequences and cool cars, made all the better because of Diesel's extremely likable bad-boy persona and a director who knows how to keep his foot on the gas, action-wise

Full Review Source: Sean the Movie Guy | comment Comment
05/25/09
Sean McBride
Sean McBride
Sean the Movie Guy

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Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses | comment 1 Comment
05/14/09
Joseph Proimakis
Joseph Proimakis
Movies for the Masses

It definitely could have used more humor and, according to the alpha males in my viewing party, more sex appeal...and we're not talking about injectors and camshafts.

Full Review Source: Spectrum (St. George, Utah) | comment Comment
05/01/09
Bruce Bennett
Bruce Bennett
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

With his sleepy-eyed gaze and biceps that no shirt can contain, Diesel quietly commands the movie.

Full Review Source: Salt Lake Tribune | comment 1 Comment
04/24/09
Sean Means
Sean Means
Salt Lake Tribune

What's amazing about this loud, lazy film (they couldn't even be bothered to give it a title) is that it's still entertaining

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment 6 Comments
04/24/09
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

With Diesel anchoring the storyline, and director Lin dazzling us with his car crashing extravaganzas, Fast & Furious will likely unleash another series of sequels.

Full Review Source: Atlantic City Weekly | comment Comment
04/20/09
Lori Hoffman
Lori Hoffman
Atlantic City Weekly

What is this, the fourth 'Fast and Furious' movie?

Full Review Source: Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) | comment 2 Comments
04/18/09
Linda Cook
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

Furious entertainment for a moment of "populist rage." But it's hard to escape the feeling that Fast & Furious is more than a little...mechanical.

Full Review Source: Palo Alto Weekly | comment Comment
04/17/09
Peter Canavese
Peter Canavese
Palo Alto Weekly

The ending leaves just enough of a cliffhanger that a fifth installment is all but guaranteed. If it's anything like this one, I'm down for the ride.

Full Review Source: Gazette (MD) | comment Comment
04/17/09
Jeffrey Lyles
Jeffrey Lyles
Gazette (MD)

The latest film is extremely noisy, features some fine stunt driving, particularly in its opening sequence, but it's dramatically a bit of a dribbler. I'm still trying to figure out the relationship between the opening of the film and the ending.

Full Review Source: MovieTime, ABC Radio National | comment Comment
04/17/09
Julie Rigg
Julie Rigg
MovieTime, ABC Radio National
 
 
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