Awful movie...

Rating: 1/10 (22 January 2009)

Awful movie made in order to help makers of ugly body kits and rims sell their garbage to teens desperately wanting to make their economy cars go faster (see: ricers).
Mind you, the fast and the furious movie IS NOT a movie for car enthusiasts. This movie is trying to PASS ITSELF as a movie for car enthusiasts, in order to extract money from teens on needless "upgrades" by making them believe they can become real racers (and car enthusiasts) too.
---This movie has either been made:
1) By a bunch of people having no clue how cars work whatsoever (as I 've seen the inside of a Mazda shown as having pistons and not rotary engine)
2) Or by a bunch of marketing guys trying to make people throw their cash away hoping to make their rusty urban car into a super car (as I 've seen blatant advertising of several part makers, and trying to make the audience believe that skylines, supra s and civics with silly modifications like ugly body kits and rims are the best cars to drive around in a city*)
---Need more convincing? Here are the Lessons I learned From The fast and The furious:
There is absolutely nothing wrong with installing a nitrous oxide system in a stock engine. Why someone shouldn't? The only thing you have to worry about is not to burn your piston rings. Yes, these damn piston rings. You don't have to worry about losing a valve, destroying the piston itself, or blowing up the engine block.
Flames coming out of the exhaust all the time is good, cos, you know, it looks cool and doesn't mean that the air-fuel mixture is improperly balanced and the catalytic converter will melt the next second. -When attempting to go around a corner, make sure your car slides (aka "drifts") to the side as much possible, 30 degrees or more, as this is the right way of driving fast.
All these -so called- professional racers at WTCC, trying to keep clean lines and never slide more than 30 degrees, are pathetic losers forced to drive politically correct by their bosses. Only Vin Diesel knows how to drive really fast and like a real man.
Mazda's do not have rotary engines
---Final Verdict: 1.3 That's 1 point for the Challenger I saw in the end(it would have been a 2.4 if they hadn't removed the 'hemi' engine during the drag scene and put a fake air scoop), plus 0.3 for effects. This would have been a nice and fun movie, IF the makers DIDN'T PRETEND to be knowing about the subject it was dealing with and MADE IT AS FUNNY AS POSSIBLE. Period.
Also see: Need For Speed Underground (a formerly good racing video game that replaced super cars with bummers, exotics roads with boring urban landscape, and the concept of just racing for fun with the concept of fitting loads of plastic junk to a economy car to earn "rep", races, magazine covers and chicks -in that order-)
*I am not saying the Skyline, Supra and Civic aren't good cars. They are very reliable and well made machines, that can do wonders in the hands of someone that is a real car enthusiast.