Movie Review: FAST & FURIOUS
New Model. Original Parts.
This review will have some spoilers but it’s only Fast & Furious so I didn’t think anyone would really care.
The original parts didn’t really work as well as maybe the studio had hoped. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, and Michelle Rodriguez who dies in the first 10 minutes of the film, were back in the film franchise that really didn’t help launch any of their careers, in fact it probably hurt it. No matter how bad of an actor you are it still doesn’t help the fact that the dialogue in the movie was absolutely horrid. The combination of the two is priceless though. It is all part of the charm behind Fast & Furious. When you go out and see this movie you know exactly what you are getting yourself into. You know the acting will be bad, the script will be weak sauce, that you will get to hear some of the worst one liners in film history.
Fast & Furious is built around fast cars, huge party’s, and girl on girl make out sessions. Every furious movie seems to have to one up the other films or try some new different gimmick in terms of racing. In this one it is all about racing through an under ground smuggle tunnel from Mexico to the United States. Yeah, it is as silly as it sounds.
I will say that the opening sequence of the fast & furious was the best part of the movie. It was the longer version of the first trailer that was shown for the film where they use the fast cars to steal gasoline tankers from a big rig. It was just ridiculous fun. After that scene it was all down hill because then people started trying to act like they could act. If the movie would have skipped all of the melodramatic parts of the film it would have been much more tolerable. They should have known that giving these actors serious dialogue wasn’t going to go over well. It was way to sappy.
Just so you know the whole movie revolves around Dom wanting to get revenge for the death of his girl Letty. At the same time Brian is trying to bring down the leader of a major drug smuggler who also happens to be involved with Letty’s death. Dom and Brian each have their own agenda on what needs to be done and Dom is still bitter about everything that happened in the first film. But as the movie goes on they make up and are fixing up cars together in no time.
I don’t think the movie was supposed to be funny but I couldn’t help but laugh at how bad some of the scenes were. There was this one scene where Dom beats that crap out of Brian because he found out Brian put Letty undercover which is what ended up getting her killed. As Paul Walker is laying on the floor on his back bleeding he kicks the table in front of him as hard as he could and yelled at the top of his lungs in his monotone voice “I’m Sorry Dom!” I couldn’t help but bust out laughing because of how dreadful it was. If you have seen the movie you know how classically bad it was.
If you go out and see this movie it is because you know what kind of movie it is, and you know that is not going to be good, unless you think these kinds of movies are good. In the end it was an experience. I got what I came for.