Summary Capsule
Fast cars, good-looking people and a floss thin plot: It's a HIT!
Summary Capsule
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Clare's Rating: vroom vroom indeed.
Clare's Review: Basically The Fast and the Furious is a porno movie that replaces sex scenes with fast cars doing stunts. I'm not sure I can come up with a definite reason why that might be either good or bad. It just is what it is.
The acting is terrible, the plot barely exists and the dialogue borders on hilarious it's so crappy. But there is a seriously bad ass soundtrack pumping pretty much non-stop throughout the entire thing, there are some respectably phenomenal stunts to behold and there's a non-stop barrage of half-way-decent looking guys and gals running around in tight shirts. So really, what it lacks in say, value or artistic credibility it more than makes up for in volume and non-stop action.
And while I'd like to grace you with a well spoken diatribe about why it sucks that movies as bad as this one are able to gross over 100 million dollars and garner themselves automatic sequels while much more deserving films that are actually going to be remembered in 20 years still struggle for distribution, the reality of the situation is that this is exactly the kind of dumb, loud, sexy, fast ride that movie goers drool over when looking for something to distract them from the boredom of their everyday lives. So whatever. It didn't offend me but I don't know that I'd ever want to watch it again. How's that for a stellar endorsement?
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 2001 Rated PG-13 Action Thriller Director
Starring
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Is It Worth Staying Through End Credits?
Possibly - on some prints, after the credits, there is a brief epilog showing Dominic's fate. He is shown, driving alone in a red Chevelle with black racing stripes, on a desolate road by the coast in Baja, Mexico. He narrates about his life ("I live my life a quarter mile at a time ...").
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Intermission!
This movie is loosely based upon an article in Vibe magazine by Ken Li about gangs that adapt Japanese cars like the Honda Civic into muscle cars for racing. There have been a few other films with the same title, including a 1954 Roger Corman "car chase" movie.
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Dom: I live my life a quarter mile at a time, nothing else matters, for those ten seconds or less, I'm free.
Dom: You break her heart and I'll break your neck.
Brian: It'll never happen.
Dom: I said a 10 second car, not a 10 minute car.
Hector: The name's Hector. Got a last name too, but I can't pronounce it.
DVD Review
The best part of the extras on this DVD is the "making of" feature where the
director of this distraction of a movie likens it's value to that of movies that are actually good (namely American Graffiti). It's one thing to make a popcorn movie about fast cars that's edited together like a music video. It's quite another to compare that kind of work to far better films that have come before yours. The depth and breadth of his clueless arrogance was
a whole lot more entertaining than any of the other stuff this DVD is packed with.
Soundtrack Review
Pick a drumbeat. Add some rapping or some guitar or some sampling or a combination of all three at once and voila! You have the soundtrack to this movie. It's not really used that creatively, however I will say this. Watching cars drive around really fast is kind of fun. Watching cars drive around really fast with a hugely loud bombastic soundtrack over top of it is
more fun.
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