Diesel's bassoon-voiced, low-watt charisma seems best placed in this franchise, and there is an undeniable spark with his foil Walker, who's all white teeth and Californian tan.
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04/17/09
Fast & Furious (2009)
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Reviews Counted:164
Fresh:46
Rotten:118
Average Rating:4.5/10
Consensus: While Fast and Furious features the requisite action and stunts, the filmmakers have failed to provide a competent story or compelling characters.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Apr 16, 2009 Wide
US Box Office: $155,022,220
Synopsis: This fourth entry in THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS franchise reunites the original stars: Michelle Rodriguez, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, and of course the bad dude himself, Vin Diesel. Needless to... [More]
Starring: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster
Director: Justin Lin
Reviews for Fast & Furious
Top CriticEarly, pre-credit scenes are so meticulously choreographed and expertly edited that you just cannot wait for the real film to begin. However, minutes later, you can't help wishing the thing would just hurry up and finish.
04/17/09
Top CriticThere are only a couple of things to be said about this movie: the cars are fast, the racing is faster and none of it makes the slightest bit of sense.
04/17/09
Top CriticThe soundtrack pounds away as the cars compete in the most unbelievable races with so many quick cuts and CGI that you hardly know who’s where in relation to anyone else. But it doesn’t matter.
04/17/09
Top CriticInstant immersion is the style of this franchise, plunging audiences into high octane race and chase mode from frame 1. And it works.
04/11/09
Top CriticThe script doesn't quite have the fire power to make this actioner's hot wheels sizzle convincingly
04/11/09
Top CriticA film that ultimately feels more like a cobbled together rent-a-car than a sleek Euro-styled crotch magnet
03/31/09
Top CriticOne of the film's biggest laughs is showing title credits. Clearly, after a prologue in which thieves play chicken with a burning, tumbling oil tanker, the possibility exists this is a Steven Soderbergh experimental gamble. Dumb, fun & entertaining.
09/21/09
Lin makes the few set pieces sandwiched between the many flat, talky scenes count as much as they can.
09/13/09
'Fast & Furious?' The stars of this sequel are more like Sluggish & Vaguely Grumpy, though it's nothing a little bit of fiber in their diets couldn't cure.
09/10/09
'Neat to watch' summarizes the film quite nicely. The revenge subplot that drives Fast and Furious is uninteresting since we haven't seen these characters in eight years.
08/30/09
Fast & Furious is a piece of junk, but at least it is an entertaining and endearing piece of junk. For a franchise I actively dislike, this is the best of the bunch.
08/14/09
General unoriginality contributes to 'The Fast and the Furious' series' own issue as a 'seen one, seen 'em all' series.
08/04/09
Fast & Furious could be called Grand Theft Autopilot. Lin knows that his demographic doesn't care about truth. They want to see stuff smash up - and in as outlandish and outrageous a way possible.
07/26/09
A completely disposable action movie.
07/17/09
The dialogue resembled bad '80s porn with extreme overacting and cheesy one-liners. Ironically, Fast & Furious is like porn, you want them to shut up and get to the action!
06/10/09
works as a mindless collection of racing sequences and cool cars, made all the better because of Diesel's extremely likable bad-boy persona and a director who knows how to keep his foot on the gas, action-wise
05/25/09
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05/14/09
It definitely could have used more humor and, according to the alpha males in my viewing party, more sex appeal...and we're not talking about injectors and camshafts.
05/01/09
With his sleepy-eyed gaze and biceps that no shirt can contain, Diesel quietly commands the movie.
04/24/09
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