“Fast & Furious” is the fourth installment to the car racing cinema. And Vin Diesel returns and is about as contumacious as he was in the first round in 2001.
“Fast & Furious” is the fourth installment to the car racing cinema. And Vin Diesel returns and is about as contumacious as he was in the first round in 2001.
Action movies will usually have the following set-up. There’s always a scene where the main character should’ve died long ago, a random kissing scene when there’s just not enough time for tender loving care (TLC) and random fire scenes for no apparent reason other than suicidal tendencies. And although these predictable scenes were included in the latest version, that will never stop me from seeing any movie about car racing, so "Fast & Furious" was an automatic must see.
In every "Fast & Furious" movie, there has been an awkward person that you can’t take seriously as a race car driver (ex. Bow Wow in "Tokyo Drift," Michael Ealy in "2 Fast 2 Furious" and Brandon T. Jackson in the fourth installment), but once you get past that, there’s plenty of action. Racing. Loving. Fighting. Running. Jumping. Crashing.
Dominic "Dom" (played by Vin Diesel) is back on the scene in the Dominican Republic, stealing gas from trucks with his ride-or-die chick Letty (played by Michelle Rodriguez). But when Dom feels like the police are getting too close, he bails out. Unfortunately for him, not long after he disappears, he finds out Letty has been killed, and like any male main character who loves his woman, he comes back to find out whodunnit. Not surprisingly, Brian O’ Conner (played by Paul Walker) is trying to catch up with the new bad guy, David Park…or maybe not.
One undercover FBI agent. One criminal. A bunch of other agents in the FBI all trying to figure out a case and a little bit of lust in love combine to create "Fast & Furious." The camraderie between Brian O’ Conner and Dom is always amusing to watch, and for car racing lovers, the action scenes will be the highlights of the movie.
The screenwriters don’t short stop on memorable lines like Vin Diesel saying, "I’m one of those boys who appreciates a fine body regardless of the make."
Eye candy is apparent too. Women daydream about who they like better, the hardened good looks of Vin Diesel with the Barry White voice, the model good looks of Paul Walker or the entertaining way that Laz Alonso can go from movies like "Stomp the Yard" with the pretty boy good looks to frowning bad boy Fenix Rise. And the women aren’t bad on the eyes either.
I’d give this flick 4.5 out of 5.0 stars just for bringing great actors together for a joyous and fast good time.
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