A guilty pleasure with excess horsepower, The Fast and the Furious efficiently combines time-honored male fantasies (hot cars, hot women, hot action) into a vacuous plot of crystalline purity,
It’s trash, but it’s fun trash, in which a hotshot Los Angeles cop named Brian (Paul Walker) infiltrates a gang of street racers suspected of fencing stolen goods from hijacked trucks,
The gang leader is Dom (Vin Diesel), ex-con and reigning king of the street racers, who lives for those 10 seconds of freedom when his high-performance “rice rocket” (a highly modified Asian import) hurtles toward another quarter-mile victory,
Racing is street theater for a lawless youth subculture, and Dom is a star behind the wheel–charismatic, dangerous, and protective toward his sister Mia (Jordana Brewster), who’s attracted to Brian as the newest member of Dom’s car-crazy team,
Director Rob Cohen treats this like Roman tragedy for MTV junkies, pushing every scene to adrenaline-pumping extremes; when his camera isn’t caressing a spectrum of nitrous oxide-enhanced dream machines, it’s ogling countless slim ‘n’ sexy race babes,
The undercover-cop scenario cheaply borrows the split-loyalty theme perfected in Donnie Brasco; a rival Asian gang adds mystery and menace; and digital trickery is cleverly employed to explore the fuel-injected innards of the day-glo racecars,
It’s about as substantial as a perfume ad, but just as alluring, and for heavy-metal maniacs of any age, Diesel’s superblown ’69 Charger proves that Detroit muscle never goes out of style,
—Jeff Shannon
- Actor:Vin Diesel
- Actor:Paul Walker
- Actor:Michelle Rodriguez
- Actor:Jordana Brewster
- Actor:Rick Yune
- AudienceRating:Suitable for 15 years and over
- Binding:DVD
- Creator:Vin Diesel
- Creator:Paul Walker
- Creator:Creighton Bellinger
- Creator:Doug Claybourne
- Creator:John Pogue
- Creator:David Ayer
- Creator:Erik Bergquist
- Creator:Gary Scott Thompson
- Creator:Ken Li
- Director:Rob Cohen
- EAN:5023940014574
- EANList:
- Format:PAL
- Label:Columbia Tristar
- Languages:
- ListPrice:
- Manufacturer:Columbia Tristar
- NumberOfDiscs:1
- NumberOfItems:1
- PackageDimensions:
- ProductGroup:DVD
- ProductTypeName:ABIS_DVD
- Publisher:Columbia Tristar
- RegionCode:2
- ReleaseDate:2003-06-09
- RunningTime:106
- SKU:U5023940014574
- Studio:Columbia Tristar
- Title:The Fast And The Furious — Superbit [DVD] [2001]