Fast & Furious (2009)
Average Rating: 4.5/10
Reviews Counted: 172
Fresh: 47 | Rotten: 125
While Fast and Furious features the requisite action and stunts, the filmmakers have failed to provide a competent story or compelling characters.
Average Rating: 4.4/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 26
While Fast and Furious features the requisite action and stunts, the filmmakers have failed to provide a competent story or compelling characters.
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Vin Diesel and Paul Walker return to the film franchise that helped to launch each of their respective careers as the Fast and the Furious series winds to a close under the creative eye of Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift director Justin Lin. Fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto (Diesel) is back in Los Angeles to seek out the truth behind a high-profile crime, but his presence in town doesn't sit well with Agent Brian O'Conner (Walker). These two rivals are forced to unite in the cause of fighting a
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Cast
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Vin Diesel
Dominic Toretto -
Paul Walker
Brian O'Conner -
Michelle Rodriguez
Letty -
Jordana Brewster
Mia Toretto -
John Ortiz
Ramon Campos -
Laz Alonso
Fenix Rise -
Sung Kang
Han Lu -
Gal Gadot
Gisele Harabo -
Jack Conley
Penning -
Shea Whigham
Agent Ben Stasiak -
Liza Lapira
Agent Sophie Trinh -
Tego Calderon
Tego -
Don Omar
Don Omar -
Mirtha Michelle
Cara -
Greg Cipes
Dwight -
Ron Yuan
David Park -
Alejandro Patino
Gas Truck Driver -
Joe Hursley
Virgil -
Cesar Garcia
Juvenal -
Brandon T. Jackson
BMW Driver -
Leigh Folsom
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All Critics (173) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (48) | Rotten (128) | DVD (6)
Though I admit the title of the film is slightly dumb, I can't really fault much else going on here.
Top CriticTurn off your mind, though, and there's some fun to be had from some of the better whizz-bang sequences.
This is a movie about street racers... criminals in fact, and there was nothing grimy or dirty about it at all.
This is more of the same.
The stars look bored out of their minds when the fourth episode of the franchise stalls between racing sequences, which is all too often in a flick where 106 minutes speed by in what feels like at least four hours.
People who want nothing more out of a movie than an extended rap video -- there's lots of hip-hop, close-ups of cars, and women in shiny tiny shorts -- may be satisfied. But this movie isn't much more than a re-do of the first film in the series.
The tagline for this film is: 'New Model, Original Parts'. It should be: 'Are you dumb enough to pay for the same film twice?'
Bummer.
As hard as it is to believe, having the old gang back really does make a big difference, just not big enough. Lin isn't the director to offer anything new enough to make Fast & Furious worth your time unless you're a hardcore fan of the series.
While the action sequences were awesome, the film came to a screeching halt whenever there were extensive dialogue scenes.
Here's hoping this is the last, but after the huge amount of money it has taken already in the States, don't be surprised to see a 5th.
Isn't worth even the most forgiving action fan's time...
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.
Lin makes the few set pieces sandwiched between the many flat, talky scenes count as much as they can.
'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.
'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.
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.
General unoriginality contributes to 'The Fast and the Furious' series' own issue as a 'seen one, seen 'em all' series.
If it's not fast and furious automotive action you're after, hoping instead for a cohesive character driven plot, then you're more likely to just get furious pretty damn fast.
... downshifts into a pulp fantasy in muscle cars and revenge movie clichés with a big budget and lots of digital effects.
Thrilling ride with high speed chases and action packed fighting that will satisfy any appetite.
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.
High speed designer fleet crash 'em up border wars lined with hottie wallpaper, that's pretty much same shenanegans, different day. And without benefit of border patrol agents, passports or speeding tickets.
Audience Reviews for Fast & Furious
Super Reviewer
Justin Lin stages amazing action scenes. He moves the scenes forward at a break-neck speed but always chooses angles that allows the audience to know where everyone is at all times as well as to clearly show every stunt without too many masking cuts. Of course, almost all the laws of physics and plausibility are completely thrown out the window this time. Some scenes are so void of logic that to complain would just create a bigger headache.
Fast & Furious has all the spirit of the original. This is definitely a guilty pleasure that puts the franchise back on track. How can anyone not love a scene where the drug lord is praying in a church and Diesel walks behind him, points a shotgun to his temple and says, "You're not forgiven." Classic, lol.
Super Reviewer
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- Dwight: Muscle always beats Import.
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- Ramon Campos: You and me we not so different.
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- Dominic Toretto: I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I'm free.
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- Dominic Toretto: Ask any racer, any real racer. It doesn't matter if you win by an inch or a mile; winning's winning
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