Anyone with a brain stem need not apply.

Rating: Null/10 (10 July 2001)

"The Fast and the Furious" slams into overdrive from the get go and it doesn't stop until the very end, but well that's not a good thing this time around. Unlike, some recent mindless action movies, like "Swordfish" and even the horrid "The Mummy Returns," "Furious" doesn't seem to care if the audience knows what's going on, on screen, it just wants to cram as many nice cars and nice looking girls as it can, so the viewer will be distracted enough that they won't realize that this is just a bad, bad movie. The plot has something to do with expensive electronic equipment getting stolen from 18 wheelers, by members of a gang who drive really fast cars.
As for the cast, well there isn't much help from them either. Paul Walker sounds like Keanu Reeves, but doesn't have the on screen toughness necessary to play his role right and Vin Diesel sounds almost too much like Sylvester Stallone that it's scary, but at least he seems comfortable in his role. Well to sum up this isn't a very good movie, but judging by it's intake at the box office, ($100+ mil. in 3 weeks) the bad reviews just won't stop this film from becoming a smash hit. Oh too bad, how I pity those who see this as great, but like the tagline to my review says, "anyone with a brain stem need not apply." So just for fun and because this movie deserves it, I give it 0 stars.