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The Fast and the Furious
(Reviewed June 9, 2001, by James Dawson)
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Everything about this movie except the car stuff--the unconvincing romance, the incredibly lame "cop undercover" plot, the laughably melodramatic backstory for lead tough guy Vin Diesel--is incredibly weak. But who cares? If you buy a ticket to this flick, it's for the car stuff, and on that score it doesn't disappoint.
It's kind of a surprise that there are not more actual racing scenes, since you will go into the theater thinking that illegal street competitions are the movie's reason for existing. But the "Road-Warrioresque" highway scene near the end more than makes up for the change-of-focus. And when Vin Diesel finallly takes his super-badass Charger out for a spin...let's just say the scene ended with wild applause at the screening I attended.
One note: STAY UNTIL THE END OF THE CREDITS, because a nice little kicker to the story appears at the very, very end of all those endless names. Everyone who walks out early will be missing out on the movie's real ending!
Another note: Sorry, guys, but the dark-'n'-wholesomely-sultry Jordana Brewster does not follow up her topless scene in "The Invisible Circus" with another one in this movie. All we get is a quick bare-back shot when she changes a shirt. Life is cruel.
Back Row Grade: B+ for the car stuff, D- for everything else.
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