2 Fast, 2 Furious !

Rating: 6/10 (16 July 2011)

You know it. They kidnapped, raped, or killed (sometimes the three together) his daughter, his wife, his pet, whatever. What does matter though is that, within a maximum of 20 or 25 minutes of the movie's start, ALL HELL BREAKS LOOOOOOSE!
The mix this time includes the thrilling search for the kidnapped girl by the vengeful father with the shoot 'um up solution. If Death Wish remade The Count of Monte Cristo as urban merciless father, Commando put the one-man-army to it. Here he has a little of everything added to a touch of James Bond (An ex-secret agent, disguises, Europe streets, some gadgets..). And the outcome of that is fine action thriller.
The best about it is surely the succession of the story. The way that father gets back his daughter from scratch wins the whole movie. The worst about it is the editing and the violence.
The editing gives no chance for anything to get out the comics case. I only hated it at the end's fight where it was like being in a fast train and nothing is clearly seen, just noisiness all the way then a suddenly successful hero!
The matter of the lead as a killing machine bothered me. Not because we have a wonderful actor this time, since the movie is dead set on wonderful thrill and action scenes, not drama. But simply because 1) He's unbeatable, which means Boooring. 2) He even can't be hurt, as if he's wearing invisible body's armor! 3) He kills everybody in front of him, being Rambo in the City!
I feel happy for (Liam Nieson). In his late fifties and he's making hit action movies, all in Hollywood (Try to name 10 stars who still work in action movies nowadays while being above 55?!).
What I don't feel so happy about it; is being too fast and too furious. However I always ask myself, if the hero, in any action, killed numerous persons (35 as in here, or 236 as in Rambo 4 one year earlier), then how many persons the audience wants to kill to make the producers of that do so?! Apparently the feel of relief lately has become something increasingly harsh and bloody. So with (Taken), grossing six times its budget, you must comprehend it's not the movie, it's the world which we're living that's 2 Fast, 2 Furious!