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Park your brain and enjoy the eye candy
I rented this movie right after seeing xXx to see if my original impression of Vin Diesel would hold. Part of it holds, but I also realize that this movie is more flash and glitz than high caliber acting. It's one of the movies where your park your brain and just enjoy the fast cars, good looking people, and special effects and worry about the plot later.

The casting for the movie was pretty good, overall most of the actors were attractive. Vin Diesel, Jordanna Brewster, and Rick Yune fit their roles well, either through the right look, or the right presence. The only person that really didn't fit was Michelle Rodriguez. I can buy the tough girl street facer image, but I can't buy her as Diesel's character's love interest. There are too many scenes where she's making an ugly face or some rude remark that fits with the tough girl appearance, but not girlfriend role she's also supposed to have.

The cars are as big as the actors in the movie. In the "making of" included in the DVD they mention the cars used are actual street racing vehicles, and the extras are fans and racers themselves. I think this really helps out the movie, it takes it from being a just story and actually gives it some credibility. You're not seeing a bunch of young people racing expensive cars, you see everyday people racing everyday cars. Sure, your everyday car doesn't have a bright paint job, sticks, a huge spoiler, and doesn't shoot flames from the exhaust pipe when it takes off, but you can accept that young people would own these kinds of cars. The Charger used in the last major scene of the movie deserves attention as well, it's a beautiful car. It looks out of place being a muscle car in a world of imports, but it's still a classy car.

There are two detractors from the movie: the lack of a good plot and little character development. There isn't much to the plot, a group using tricked out Hondas keeps high jacking semis full of electronic equipment, and the truckers are (angry). The police send in an undercover guy to find out who's stealing the stuff. He falls for the sister of the top street racer in the area, and befriends him. That's really it. The plot isn't that believable, $6 million in stolen electronics is a lot of stuff, and how are you going to offload that much stuff without attracting someone's attention? The character development is sorely lacking as well. We find out very little about anyone in the movie, it's mentioned that most of the characters don't have parents; they're either dead, left, or in jail. You don't find out much more than that, which makes the characters two dimensional.

Overall, I'd give the movie 3.75 stars. 1star is for the cast, 1 star for the cars, 1 for the racing and special affects, and 3/4 star because the movie doesn't drag. There's no point where you really feel like the movie is just killing time, which I like. Since I can't use partial stars I'll round up. Overall, it's worth renting if you want to take a break and concentrate on eye candy for a while.

Fast and Furious?
I have to say that this movie did have its good points, to any women reading this review, Paul Walker and Van Diesel are HOT! The cars are cool and the racing rocks (though stupid and should only be in a Hollywood movie and not on "real" streets)! I have to admit that the plot is pretty much non-existant and some scenes could have been left on the cutting room floor. I gave this movie 3 stars because;
1) The cars are really cool!
2) Paul Walker and Van Diesel are hot! and
3) You have to give credit where credit is due, it was a well filmed movie and the camera angles were also very well done, (I work with filming TV and so I see little mistakes in everything, but this one I saw hardly anything. That gives it a thumbs up from me).
I realise some of my stuff is bias but I actually liked the movie. So for what its worth, if you go to your local video store and buy a "previously viewed" version for $15 or less its a good movie.
But please, DO NOT TRY ANY OF THE STUNTS AT HOME! Because if that's your plan than don't bother watching it. Thank you and good night!

absolutely pathetic
This movie was absolutely pathetic. It is everything that is wrong with America. The music is obnoxious and moronic, the acting sucks, (...) the plot was wretched, it was horrible! There arent enough adjectives to describe the horror of this movie. "Cool" cars, "hot" women (not really Michelle Rodriguez kinda has a mustache), gangsters, racing, in other words totally original (haha)! The WORST thing about this movie though is that it spawned the creation of other films similar to it that disease our society and rot our minds like XXX, 2Fast2Furious, to name the most obvious.

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