Ten minutes of perfection, swallowed by an hour of pain.

Rating: 6/10 (19 April 2002)

What kind of movie is this? Race Movie? Good guy / Bad Guy movie? Buddy Film? The outline says it all. It's two hundred other movies, all done better, even by Keenu Reeves in such 'classics' as Point Break. It's to be assumed that this flix was not attempting intellectual or spiritual growth from the audience only the hard 'fast' world of cars and pretty girls in a simple fuel injected plot.
Trouble is, that it was a bit on the shallow side as far as hard racing and high end 'furious' motions. Though, the one and only street race scene with Brian O'Conner (LEAD: Paul Walker) does an excellent job of conveying speed and the slightly warped view of the world street racers bring to the race scene. Rent it ONLY for this scene.
I would say more about the car chases later in the film, but I don't want to spoil any plot info. Let's just say that if this was the best hijacking game they could come up with...then they were doomed from the beginning...just like my attention.