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Fast & Furious (2009)

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Reviews Counted: 155

Fresh: 43

Rotten:112

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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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
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 the Movie Guy

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Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses | comment Comment
05/14/09
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
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 Comment
04/24/09
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 2 Comments
04/24/09
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
Atlantic City Weekly

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

Full Review Source: Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) | comment Comment
04/18/09
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
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
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
MovieTime, ABC Radio National

Diesel's bassoon-voiced, low-watt charisma seems best placed in this franchise, and there is an undeniable spark with his foil Walker, who's all white teeth and Californian tan.

Full Review Source: FILMINK (Australia) | comment 1 Comment
04/17/09
Julian Shaw
FILMINK (Australia)

Early, pre-credit scenes are so meticulously choreographed and expertly edited that you just cannot wait for the real film to begin. However, minutes later, you can't help wishing the thing would just hurry up and finish.

Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph (Australia) | comment Comment
04/17/09
Leigh Paatsch
Daily Telegraph (Australia)

There are only a couple of things to be said about this movie: the cars are fast, the racing is faster and none of it makes the slightest bit of sense.

Full Review Source: The Age (Australia) | comment Comment
04/17/09
Paul Byrnes
The Age (Australia)

The soundtrack pounds away as the cars compete in the most unbelievable races with so many quick cuts and CGI that you hardly know who’s where in relation to anyone else. But it doesn’t matter.

Full Review Source: At the Movies (Australia) | comment Comment
04/17/09
Margaret Pomeranz
At the Movies (Australia)

The film appears to have been not so much directed as welded together out of other bad movies that have crashed and burned.

Full Review Source: Daily Mail [UK] | comment Comment
04/17/09
Christopher Tookey
Daily Mail [UK]

As far as car chase movies go, it's right on the money with great action scenes, terrible dialogue and some seriously sub-par acting.

Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | comment Comment
04/17/09
David Edwards
Daily Mirror [UK]

"Ride or die, remember?" Er, not really, no. More like "Yawn and forget", as Nabokov once recommended. Only 13-year-old boys and Jeremy Clarkson could possibly enjoy this.

Full Review Source: Independent | comment 1 Comment
04/17/09
Anthony Quinn
Independent

The story makes precious little sense but the car chases help to keep you awake and smouldering hunks Walker and Diesel get to make eyes at each other one more time.

Full Review Source: Daily Express | comment Comment
04/17/09
Allan Hunter
Daily Express

Both screenplay and plotting are basic but the action scenes are a wonder to behold if you can forget the number of civilians who would have been killed as the chases progress through various cities.

Full Review Source: This is London | comment Comment
04/17/09
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