Pure adrenaline rush!

Rating: Null/10 (21 September 2001)

Only one word describes this action flick starring Paul Walker and Vin Diesel. Amazing! I'll be the first to admit, I wasn't exactly excited about cars and the things they can do, but now, after seeing this movie, it gets me pumped up to go do the exact same thing with my friends.
The movie did have its downfalls. Such as the crappy dialogue. Okay, so there were more than it's fair share of stupid comments made. But one of the most popular movies in the past five years was exactly the same, The Matrix. I swear if I heard "he is the one" one more time, I was gonna put my foot through the damn VCR!
Point is, people don't go to see movies for the acting. Leave that to the classy, Oscar winning pictures starring Gwyenth Paltrow and Ben Affleck. Did anyone rent or go to Barb Wire to see Pamela's acting ability? No, they saw it because she's one of the hottest women alive! I don't know about anyone else, but I can't see Tom Hanks or Denzel Washington in Vin Diesel and Paul Walker's shoes. It just doesn't work! What should be different about this movie?
No matter what town or city you're in, you will see cars similar to the cars in this movie, and that's exactly why it's so popular. Who cares if you hate Hondas, Acuras, Toyotas, Mazdas or Nissans. There is no denying that they are the best made automobiles ever made.
According to a lot of people in big cities, The Fast and the Furious wasn't exactly the most accurate portrayal of street racing in America, but it gave everyone a new prospective on street racing. In the car culture we live in, a movie like this needs to come out in order to shine light onto the subject. So what if there is cheesy dialogue, it wasn't written to win Oscars, it was written so they could put the nicest custom cars in the country on the big screen for people to enjoy.
I give The Fast and the Furious 8 stars out of 10, because, much like myself, it gives people around the country and around the world a hobby to enjoy and to call their own. The movie showed the world what intense means. And if we lose good acting and a pleasable script in the process, who really cares. As long as the desired effect was achieved.