what a silly film

Rating: Null/10 (12 October 2001)

The Fast and furious may have been exciting, it may have been fun, but cor blimey it was daft.
For starters, the crime. Now they may have used cars, and done it at very very high speeds, but essentially they were nicking a few VCRs, a crime more often associated with bored teenagers. With the amount of time and money the LAPD put into this, you'd think drugs, guns or murder would be involved.
The races certainly must have been fun to watch. From A to B, straight line, GO! This kind of racing makes formula one seem almost EXCITING, though not quite. what WOULD have been cool would be to see the cars being hurled round tight corners, handbrake turns, that kinda stuff.
And where the hell did they get this cop? The Rehabilitation of Speed Junkies and Former Joy Riders Scheme? If were the LAPD, I wouldn't trust no testosterone fuelled, just out of puberty, wannabe boy racer with not just one, but TWO $10,000 cars.
As for the plot (it's there if you look hard), I know it's a cliche for these kind of movies but it was So predictable. And the dialogue wasn't much better - the bit when Jesse was saying grace was so cheesy I couldn't even laugh. For me, the coolest guys in the film were the chinese.

But then again, it WAS exciting, there WERE shiny cars which made lots and lots of BRRRUM noises and went fast. Oh well, I guess I just don't have the right mentality for these kind of films.