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The Fast and the Furious (2001)
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Reviews Counted: 135
Fresh: 71
Rotten:64
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Consensus: Sleek and shiny on the surface, The Fast and the Furious recalls those cheesy teenage exploitation flicks of the 1950s.
Theatrical Release: Jun 22, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $142,542,950
Synopsis: THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS is a nitro-burning joyride that makes outstanding use of special effects, innovative camera work, and a nonstop throbbing soundtrack. From the opening sequence--a high-speed, high-tech truck robbery--the... [More]
Starring: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster
Director: Rob Cohen
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Reviews for The Fast and the Furious
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.
03/12/08
Top Critic 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.
03/12/08
Top Critic
This is probably the most fun to be had at the multiplex so far this year.
12/30/06
From first frame to last, this is an unabashedly B-Picture, elevated by A-level stunts but dragged down to C-level characterizations.
06/26/06
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.
06/15/06
...ultimately entertaining enough to warrant a mild recommendation...
03/11/06
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.
01/26/06
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.
12/06/05
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!
02/24/04
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12/15/03
What is unforgivable is that many of the racing scenes were boring too.
08/27/03
It’s dumb as a post, sure, but man, does it get your heart pounding and the adrenaline racing through your bloodstream.
06/06/03
Though it might as well be called The Dopey and the Deafening, this is the kind of overblown junk food that summer flicks are all about.
05/20/03
A plot that could be written on the back of a pine tree car freshener.
05/08/03
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