A iconic Action Film

Rating: 9/10 (4 June 2020)

A movie that for its time was a first of its kind, Hollywood had never seen a movie involving illegal street racing. Little to everyone's knowledge that this first startup movie in 2001 would lead to a long and ongoing series of movies. Brian O'Connor (Paul Walker) Is a LAPD officer assigned to investigate Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) under suspicion of multiple high speed truck robberies. O'Connor quickly meets Toretto in the street racing scene, Toretto takes O'Connor under his wing and gives him a place to stay as well as helps him build a new car. Throughout the time O'Connor is with Toretto he falls in love with not only his new environment but also Toretto's sister. The Movie doesn't only portray the criminal activity like street racing, running from the police, and robbery of semis carrying Blu Ray Players but shows bonds being made between two completely different worlds and a true feeling throughout Toretto's group known to him as family. O'Connor works so well into the family that when it's time to step in and do his job to bust the family for the thefts he can't do it and feels like he's betraying the family. The movie is beriddled with effects from the early 2000s and at some point shows poor editing. The movie has many interesting little quirks that the average person watching the movie might not notice but to its intended audience of car guys shows. One recognizable scene that is laughed upon is the first race scene of the movie of the movie Brian goes to spray Nitrous Oxide into the motor and the passenger footwell floor pan just falls right out of the car. How those to relate or even nearly are possible is out there and foolish. Looking past its few small quirks and editing issues the film was quite a good turn out. The film was low budget and to the studio seemed like a one and done film but turned into something much bigger. A cool fact is the cars used in the film were cars built by actual people throughout the state of california. To wrangle up some car ideas they invited a large group or car tuners to bring down their car to the movie studio and from the directors chose which cars would star in the movie. The cast brought the movie together with good chemistry and put on an amazing performance with most not really being seen in any big buck films before. The Fast and The Furious for most was a movie that brought together the car community and created dreams for the members of all with this action movie. The movie would go on to make a total of 10 action packed movies. The Fast and Furious movie was and will continue to be an amazing movie not only for its action scenes but its depiction of street racing and the car community in the early 2000s which is largely the same today.