The Fast and the Furious
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Actor: Michelle Rodriguez, Paul WalkerBrand: WALKER,PAUL
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-01-02
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of The Fast and the Furious
DVD Review: The Fast and The Furious - Great Action, Poor Acting
Summary: 4 Stars
The last film Rob Cohen and Neal Moritz teamed up to make, "The Skulls", exposed its audience to the dealings of a prestigious Ivy secret society of the same name; a name that would conjure up images of long-bearded, forty-plus year old men, fully clad in tasseled leather apparel cruising the streets of suburbia on their two-wheeled "crotch rockets". Actually, the previous description is remarkably similar to a scene in Cohen/Morits'z latest production, "The Fast and The Furious". All you've got to do is replace the long-bearded, forty-plus year old men with a couple of well-mannered Asian gentlemen, the leader of whom is a well portrayed character Johnny Tran (Rick Yune). Recycle a main character from "The Skulls", Caleb Mandrake (Paul Walker) and give him a "typical whiteboy name", Brian Spilner, and you've got a new movie.
Spilner is a young undercover officer trying to find out what group of street-racers is hijacking semis worth millions of dollars before the truckers, the short-tempered hooligans they are, take matters into their own hands. And if Spilner cracks the case he'll have the opportunity to become a detective-his dream ever since he was just a young lad put in juvie for boosting cars, an experience that he never really had, but that ends up helping him later in life.
Somewhere after putting movies like "She's All That" behind him and stepping up to the plate in "Varsity Blues" and "The Skulls", Walker seems to have lost the ability to put sentences together in a believable tone of voice. It's hard not to think Walker slipped into a couple of classes at Keanu Reeves's School of Acting, as seen on SNL. On more than one occasion, his acting is outdone by a couple of bed-wetting elementary schoolers doing a production of "A Christmas Carol". Walker's bad acting is particularly flagrant in a scene where Spilner has to convince the kingpin of the illegal street-racing world, Dominic Toretto (Vin Deisel), that he isn't a cop. Not very convincing now, are we? Toretto bought it, yet I surely hope he kept his receipt. Walker's acting was sadly disappointing.
On the other hand, Toretto (or "Dom" as he is lovingly called by his groupies, er...I mean "team") is played well by Deisel. He plays the role with thoughtfulness and sincerity to his character. He's a badass when he has to be, yet nice enough to fool you into believing he's a slightly oversized Teddy Ruxpin. Maybe not. With a name like Vin Deisel you can't help but be ready to land your fist into the darkside of someone's face, but a little Zanex never hurt anyone. In all seriousness, Deisel plays one of the better roles of his career in this movie, aside from the minor roles he played in 2000's "Boiler Room" and in 1998's "Saving Private Ryan".
I do realize I just compared "The Fast and The Furious" to the award-winning "Saving Private Ryan", but not without due respect. The level of intensity reached in the movie is exhilarating and pulls the viewer directly into the driver's seat of a 600 horsepower pile of sheet metal that rockets from zero to sixty in less than five seconds. Upon viewing the film, I caught myself with wide-open eyes and a dropped jaw more than once.
If you're wondering where the scantily clad women are in the film, you've not much farther to look than Toretto's little sister Mia (Jordana Brewster). Brewster playfully tantalizes you with her ultra low-rise jeans and skimpy t-shirts, but more so she attracts the attention of Spilner similarly to how cheap coffee and donuts attract L.A. police officers. Oddly enough, Spilner's higher-up police officials are typecasted as Starbucks drinking, bagel eating men who occupy a house that was originally designed for Elizabeth Taylor back in the 1950's.
As with most movies of this sort, there always has to be at least one hotheaded moron with raging fists and a mental incapacity for any common sense. Well, here you'll find a couple, most of whom are a part of Toretto's team and most of whom must have made Walker their mentor and inspiration for acting. This does nothing but bring even more laughter from the audience for a movie that could use an extra laugh or two.
At any rate, Cohen does an excellent job keeping the action moving throughout the film; and the plot, while rather basic with no mysterious twists, is appealing and does well to hold the viewer's attention. Spilner's typical white-boy attitude matures into one of respect, even though he still has a thing for disobedience. However, the ending is the kind that doesn't seem to leave many viewers happy and which just hankers for a sequel. Rumor has it it's already in the making. I just hope the second shares the same passion for adrenaline as the first, and a lot better acting.
Description of The Fast and the Furious
Street racers vie to be top dog while trying to steer clear of the police.Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 24-JUL-2007
Media Type: DVD
A guilty pleasure with excess horsepower, The Fast and the Furious efficiently combines time-honored male fantasies (hot cars, hot women, hot action) into a vacuous plot of crystalline purity. It's trash, but it's fun trash, in which a hotshot Los Angeles cop named Brian (Paul Walker) infiltrates a gang of street racers suspected of fencing stolen goods from hijacked trucks. The gang leader is Dom (Vin Diesel), ex-con and reigning king of the street racers, who lives for those 10 seconds of freedom when his high-performance "rice rocket" (a highly modified Asian import) hurtles toward another quarter-mile victory. Racing is street theater for a lawless youth subculture, and Dom is a star behind the wheel--charismatic, dangerous, and protective toward his sister Mia (Jordana Brewster), who's attracted to Brian as the newest member of Dom's car-crazy team.
Director Rob Cohen treats this like Roman tragedy for MTV junkies, pushing every scene to adrenaline-pumping extremes; when his camera isn't caressing a spectrum of nitrous oxide-enhanced dream machines, it's ogling countless slim 'n' sexy race babes. The undercover-cop scenario cheaply borrows the split-loyalty theme perfected in Donnie Brasco; a rival Asian gang adds mystery and menace; and digital trickery is cleverly employed to explore the fuel-injected innards of the day-glo racecars. It's about as substantial as a perfume ad, but just as alluring, and for heavy-metal maniacs of any age, Diesel's superblown '69 Charger proves that Detroit muscle never goes out of style. --Jeff Shannon
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