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| THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS
Cast : Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Rick Yune, Chad Lindberg, Matt Schulze, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Reggie Lee, Ja Rule, Rob Cohen
Genre : Action
Release Date : 3 April 2009 (USA)
Crew : Director: Justin Lin, Chris Morgan (written by), Gary Scott Thompson (characters)
Synopsis : The combination of action and music in The Fast and the Furious is the best I can recall in any movie. As you watch the street racers, the action is complimented by the sound track blaring from the surround sound speakers. This is indeed a film that it pays to see on the big screen with a state of the art sound system. The Fast and the Furious is similar to recent action films such as Vertical Limit and Driven; they all have outstanding action linked to a weak story line and pedestrian acting. The plot and acting here is really in the "B" movie category so in spite of the great action and music, the film only gets two and a half stars. That said… it may still be worth the price of admission.
There are four major components to the story. Young twenty-somethings drag race souped up cars through the streets of LA and some of them are criminals who hijack eighteen wheelers for their electronic merchandise. A cop working undercover to catch the hijackers becomes involved with the sister of a major racing figure and gains a dangerous enemy in another racer who also wants to sleep with her. The plot is essentially a joy ride through the resolution of these variants.
Brian Spindler (Paul Walker) is assigned to work undercover in the drag racing community. He goes to the restaurant owned by Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and makes friends with his sister Mia (Jordana Brewster), who is a waitress. Although Dominic is suspicious of Brian, it's his buddy Vince (Matt Schulze) who is outraged. Vince is jealous of the good-looking Brian and loses his cool when he thinks that Mia is ready to hop into bed with Brian rather than him.
Over $6 million in electronic goods have been hijacked by a gang of street racers and the political pressure is on to catch them before the truckers take matters into their own hands.
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