A porn, except this one's about cars.

Rating: Null/10 (24 June 2001)

This movie is for all the young punks in their late teens/early twenties who spend all their hard-earned money from Structure or Banana Republic on air intakes and turbo chargers for their Honda Civics. It's an action flick glorifying the lives of these young punks who drive their souped up pieces of s***. Except for one thing though....the folks driving the cars in this movie were older, and richer. But just as lame. It came as no surprise to me that I was probably the oldest person in the theater when I watched this. And I am 26 years old!
This film has the architecture of a porn. The spine of the movie is the action, but there always seems to be a token plot. Ok, so this undercover police officer is trying to bust these car-racing hoodlums, and falls in love with the sister of the leader. The writers seemed to put something into that aspect of the story. So what happens to the couple at the end? Nobody knows. And why should we? It had nothing to do with the fast driving. The writers tried to develop a character for Vin Diesel, but they forgot one thing: a story that actually needs a developed character! The "emotional" scenes were thrown in randomly, as were the personality traits of the characters. Presumably, just so that they could say that "The Fast and the Furious" is really a "movie". Doesn't that sound like a porn to you?
Honestly though? I would definitely recommend this movie to anyone. It's just plain mindless entertainment. We all need, from time to time, movies that we can sit back and watch and be entertained by without having to use a single brain cell to think about the story.