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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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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 film never drops below the red line. Roaring along at breakneck speed, Dom (Vin Diesel) and his crew meet on the streets of L.A. each night to show off their high-powered racers. When new guy Brian (Paul Walker) wants to add his fuel to the fire, he can't cough up the cash to race, but offers up his car as collateral. In their tiny jacked compacts, Dom, Brian, and Edwin (Ja Rule) burst into a high-gear race with Brian nearly beating perennial champion Dom. But in the final moments, he loses the race and his car. Brian's debt is quickly cleared, however, when he saves Dom both from the cops and from a potentially violent encounter with Johnny Tran (Rick Yune), a rival gang lord. Dom takes Brian under his wing--a decision that disgusts his gang but delights his sister Mia (Jordana Brewster). The gang never suspects that Brian is not who he seems: he is actually an undercover cop, and though he wishes otherwise, he's there to bust Dom for committing the armed truck robbery witnessed in the opening scenes.
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Format:Blu-ray
For some reason I've dodged this film since it came out. I'm not sure why but I thought it was going to be awful. I thought it looked cheesy and cheap and (to use an equally cheap car pun) wouldn't be up my street.
But I was wrong. Having just sat through this Bluray I'm starting to regret the times I immediately turned over when it's been on TV, because it was actually quite a fun and novel twist on a tried and tested theme - the undercover cop.
Fast cars, great stunts, turn on, tune in, drop out - as I expected, that's all this film is about. What I didn't expect was the fact that I'd enjoy it do much, as I'm not a petrol head at all.
The cars are vulgar, boy-racer imports and I found it hysterical seeing all 3 and a half foot of Ja Rule trying to drive struggling to peer over the dash (it's worth seeing for that comedy moment alone) and any film with Japanese biker gangs in it, is going to be good.
By now I'm sure everyone knows about this film, so I won't bore you and just give you the facts about the Bluray. The picture quality was excellent and the perfect format to see the shiny chrome engines and brash, colourful cars in all their glory.
The disk was jam-packed with extras too and didn't feel like a straight reproduction of the DVD disc (although it might have been as I don't own that) because there were documentaries on it with info about the fourth Fast & the Furious film in them.
I was going to give this film 4 stars but sitting here writing this, I've changed my mind. This film, just like the criminal crew it depicts, does a job and it does a job well, so for that reason I'm going to give it 5 stars.
I think it's immensely enjoyable to watch if you're in the right mood and puts the peddle to the metal when it comes to action, stunts, nonsense, chicks, bro-mances, car chases and all that other good stuff that makes a great beer and pizza movie.
But I was wrong. Having just sat through this Bluray I'm starting to regret the times I immediately turned over when it's been on TV, because it was actually quite a fun and novel twist on a tried and tested theme - the undercover cop.
Fast cars, great stunts, turn on, tune in, drop out - as I expected, that's all this film is about. What I didn't expect was the fact that I'd enjoy it do much, as I'm not a petrol head at all.
The cars are vulgar, boy-racer imports and I found it hysterical seeing all 3 and a half foot of Ja Rule trying to drive struggling to peer over the dash (it's worth seeing for that comedy moment alone) and any film with Japanese biker gangs in it, is going to be good.
By now I'm sure everyone knows about this film, so I won't bore you and just give you the facts about the Bluray. The picture quality was excellent and the perfect format to see the shiny chrome engines and brash, colourful cars in all their glory.
The disk was jam-packed with extras too and didn't feel like a straight reproduction of the DVD disc (although it might have been as I don't own that) because there were documentaries on it with info about the fourth Fast & the Furious film in them.
I was going to give this film 4 stars but sitting here writing this, I've changed my mind. This film, just like the criminal crew it depicts, does a job and it does a job well, so for that reason I'm going to give it 5 stars.
I think it's immensely enjoyable to watch if you're in the right mood and puts the peddle to the metal when it comes to action, stunts, nonsense, chicks, bro-mances, car chases and all that other good stuff that makes a great beer and pizza movie.
Format:Blu-ray
This is the first of an awesome collection of films based on speed!! Fast cars, hot women, cool macho characters and plenty of blood pumping thrills!! The original fast and furious sets the ground for all the characters and builds up a great story for the sequels, this is an all round action film that will entertain all and a must see if you dont already have it, thumping cool hip soundtrack too!! Perfect cast, perfect for satisfying your need for speed!!
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Well as I have already said this is a brilliant film and a must for Fast and Furious Fans. Great action and story line,the settings are breath taking so a must for U fans. Get it,watch it an enjoy.
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