The Fast And The Furious — Superbit [DVD] [2001]

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
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• Format:PAL
• Label:Columbia Tristar
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• Manufacturer:Columbia Tristar
• NumberOfDiscs:1
• NumberOfItems:1
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• 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]