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2 Fast 2 Furious [VHS]

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This movie showed us a whole new level of bad movies. From the unrealistic car scenes, to the abundant plot holes this movie has you falling asleep from the beginning. The first movie showed us that nitrous can make a car slightly faster, but the second movie showed us that nitrous will allow you to reach light speed somehow. When the cars in this movie use nitrous it somehow has the same effect as the space ships do in Star Wars when they travel through light speed. When anyone seems to use nitrous everything gets kind of burry and all you see are streaking lights like Star Wars uses. All the car scenes in this movie are totally unrealistic. The fact that we are supposed to believe that an EVO and an Eclipse are going to stand a prayer next to a Saleen Mustang, a Dodge Viper, and a Corvette Z06 is very insulting to anyone in the automotive world. The plot in this movie leaves nothing to the imagination as we are supposed to believe that this Paul Walker guy turns up missing and the police are after him, but then the next thing we know he is working for the police with his buddy who was also running from the law at one point. This is a movie that you want to miss!

Fueled by the libidinous gas of Tyrese and Paul Walker, John Singleton's sequel to "The Fast and the Furious," "2 Fast 2 Furious" proves that Fast Cars, Fast Guys and Fast Women can still equal a pretty good movie. We're not talking "The Hours" or "Talk to Her" here, but I can think of several more expensive to make and/or bigger star vehicles that don't have this movie's charisma and charm.
"2F2F" is shot in Caribbean, super bright primary colors and the Car race and chase scenes are as outstanding as those in "Ronin" and that is saying a lot. And even though some of the line readings are dull and non-ironic, Tyrese definitely emerges as a genuine talent.
If there are any Drive-ins left in the world (and I hope there are)...this is the perfect drive-in movie: take a date, buys some dogs, popcorn, good-and-plenty and a vat of Soda and enjoy.

The original FAST AND THE FURIOUS was brainless but reasonably entertaining, with a charismatic performance by Vin Diesel, a fairly interesting plot, and some very well-done action scenes. This inevitable sequel, starring Paul Walker (who played second fiddle to Diesel's character in the original) and Tyrese (as Diesel's "replacement"), hardly approaches the highs of the first film at all until the last 20 minutes or so, when 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS truly comes alive with a fun-to-watch car chase scene, some ingenuity, and some momentum. Until then, it's pretty mediocre, with a cookie-cutter plot, some wince-inducing dialogue (which tries way too hard to be "cool"), and bland car racing scenes. Thanks to Tyrese, who brings considerable energy and charisma to a badly underwritten but important role, it's still fairly watchable overall, but at least with THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS I wasn't annoyed with the dialogue and bored with the plot. Action fans can easily skip this one.

The only reason I signed up for Amazon.com was to write a truthfull review. I would really give this movie a negative star rating or even a zero, but I cannot. Let me start off by saying that back in 2001, I saw The Fast and the Furious and thought it was the coolest movie in the world. I have since then matured and realized what a crappy movie it was and how much they don't have a clue about what they're talking about. Like how you can pop the hood and see a NOS fogger system AND, direct port nitrous injection AND, a stand alone fuel management system(and that's only in one scene). But away from the past, this movie is ten times worse. For starters, they turned it into a movie geared at only one audience, black people and people that like to copy them. With slang, rap music, hydralics and numerous other items from the "Hip Hop" community, this movie tries to blend show and go, but that is not really possible. Anyone that knows anything about cars knows that air bags, neon lights, big spoilers, chrome rims or just plain any rims over 17 inches, TV's, $10,000 stereos, and playstation 2's will not help you out in the speed factor of your automobile. It just saddens my heart to see what started off as a great phenomonon with the first movie, into neon lights and hip hop music. This is absolutly the dumbest movie about cars I have ever seen. The kids that like this movie think that cars that look cool and run 17 second quarter mile times are fast. They like to go crusing, and race other cars like their's and think when they win against a civic with exhaust their car is the fastest on the block. I also read a big feature article in Super Street, where they got to test the cars from the movie, and the cars times were SLOWER than stock. All the did for the movie was weigh them down with chrome rims and computer s***. I also found out they disengaged the all-wheel drive on the skyline, just so it could drift around corners to look cool. This movie really gives true car enthusiasts a bad BAD name. THIS MOVIE SUCKS. F*** YOU 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS.

2 Fast 2 Furious is one of those sequels that comes around every so often that doesn't require you to have seen the original. I saw this movie for the first time not too long after it came out, and having never seen the original, I thought I would be lost and wouldn't enjoy myself as much as other people, but on the contrary - I left the experience much happier than when I came in.

This film is full of quick one-liners that deserve a laugh. The special effects and the car races will leave your mouth gaping open. I have heard and read that people didn't appreciate this film as much because it seemed to focus more on a plot than the first film did rather than focus more on the races, but overall, I think the balance works well. Even thinking of the plot that we are left with, I really can't see another time when a race would even be appropriate.

And as for people saying that this film is worse than the original, I would have to disagree...Why? Frankly, I have always been a firm believer than Vin Diesel is entirely overrated as an actor. (I mean, c'mon - Have you seen the Pacifier?) He's nothing more than a meat head who, while able to do pretty good fight scenes, should leave the dialogue to someone else.

Yes, this film is for the younger crowd, and there are numerous occasions when unbelievable events take place (take the boat jumping as an example), but there is no saying that an older person wouldn't enjoy it as well...The only thing that I will say is that you really shouldn't go into this film expecting an Oscar worthy performance, or else you will be disappointed. If you sit back and take this as the fun romp that it is, however, you will thoroughly enjoy yourself.

Summary:
Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) is a former cop turned fugitive whose hobby happens to be racing cars. Having left the L.A. area (the location of the first movie), he is finally caught in Miami. But instead of sending him to jail, the authorities have a proposition for him - help them bring down local drug lord Carter Verone (Cole Hauser) and they'll forget about his criminal record. Brian agrees, but only if he can choose his partner. So he chooses an old friend from his childhood days in Barstow, CA, ex-convict Roman Pearce (Tyrese).

The DEA has an agent inside Verone's operation, Monica Fuentes (Eva Mendes), who hooks them up with a job to drive for Verone. But for some reason Verone has decided he is ready to leave the country, so he has only one job for Roman and Brian, pick up a bunch of cash and drive it to an airport where he can get out of the country. Roman and Brian, who are constantly fighting their police and DEA handlers, pull a few tricks in the process. The result, they pull off the job, get Verone his money, capture him, save Fuentes (who has fallen in love with Brian), and get away with some of the loot - what a surprise!

My Comments:
Let's see, what does the movie have going for it... Story - terrible. Acting - even worse. Fast cars - nope. What? It doesn't even have fast cars? Unless you consider 85 mph fast, nope.

The story is just plain silly. To begin with, Brian apparently has a massive rap sheet, but he was a cop? Um, are cops allowed to do that? I don't think so. Second, okay, let's pretend that the DEA would be willing to let Brian expunge his record in order to help them. And let's pretend even further that they would be willing to let a violent ex-convict be his partner. And let's pretend even further further that they would completely disregard that Brian and Roman break a gazillion laws every time they get in a car and that Roman shooting at a DEA agent at one point in order not to blow their cover is 'cool'. With all of this pretending, I just could not keep pretending when the movie has a highly successful drug lord use two cop-attracting racing cars to transport his money. I mean, I'm no drug lord, but if it were me, I'd use old women in Cadillacs; cops never pull them over. This has to be the silliest premise for a movie I have ever seen. The sole purpose is to present a situation where cars can go fast. Who cares that it would never happen, right? Well, why make it into a movie with the trimmings of a story if the story is so implausibly ridiculous that it would be better if it didn't exist? I don't get it.

Another serious problem I had with the story and movie is the fact that every time you got more than one car racing lunatic together with another, it inevitably included about 100+ scantily clad women who were perfectly okay with the fact that they were just being used for their breasts and vaginas. The car racing culture portrayed in this movie doesn't exist (if you believe it does, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you in Brooklyn...). I'm supposed to believe that these women have nothing better to do with their time than sit around and watch people race cars, watercraft, etc. all day. They don't work? Please!

As far as the acting goes, this are B-movie actors. No one is good. But since this movie isn't about the story or the acting, just about portraying a non-existent racing culture and fast cars, it shouldn't matter. But wait, the cars aren't fast...

So, what was up with the cars only doing 80 to100 mph? I do 80 on my way to work in the morning. Maybe I should take a camera with me and make a movie. I drive a Honda Civic; does that mean I've got a racing machine? Heck, I've even driven 120 mph (not on the way to work, but that's another story...), which was about the fastest I think I saw the speedometers go. So, why is this movie called 2 Fast? Ideally it would be in reference to the length of the movie, as it would be in its best interest to get it over with quick, before anyone realizes that what they just saw was ridiculously stupid.

Overall, I don't recommend this movie for anyone, except those people who actually believe their is a cool, car-racing underground culture where stuff like this actually happens. Sure, people race cars, but do they gather around several thousand people and close down streets to do it? Only if they are as stupid as the makers of this movie and want to go to jail. Don't see this movie!

2 fast 2 furious lives up to its title- somewhat. it isn't the fastest or the most furious, but it's airheaded and fluffy enough to move quickly without being attatched to the strings of an actual plot.

But its lack of an intriguing storyline doesn't destroy its fun factor. the souped up hot rods polished to a fine sheen speeding down the streets of miami make for some rather satisfying guilty pleasures.

And if you'd rather feast your eyes on something more than oversized hot wheels in a rainbow of colors, you won't be disappointed. the men have the pleasures of drooling a little puddle over shapely women, but we girls definately aren't left out in the cold.

Studly Paul walker with his charmingly innocent grin, and his accomplis Tyrese with his toned body (and urge to constantly rip his shirt off) would make any girl faint (if they weren't sitting in a chair)

if you want something quick, that doesn't require too much thought, is loaded with eye candy, light hearted, fun, and will help you munch your way through your stale, overly buttery popcorn, than this movie is what you've been searching for.

John Singleton, best known for urban dramas like "Boyz N The Hood" and "Poetic Justice", takes some time off to pay the bills with a commerical property, a sequel to "The Fast And The Furious", 2001's big dumb adrenaline-filled car chase movie starring Vin Diesel. Vin's out of the picture in this one and vanilla-white Paul Walker is stuck carrying the bag with a supporting cast that includes R&B singer Tyrese (who made his film debut in Singleton's last movie, "Baby Boy") and the beautiful Eva Mendez. Also involved is rapper Ludacris who helps Singleton keep up his "rapper-per-movie quota".

Walker's renegade cop Brian O'Connor is back and this time, he's paired with his estranged childhood friend (played by Tyrese) so that they can infiltrate a Miami kingpin's organization. (Don't ask me. I didn't write it.) Walker, who if not for Keanu Reeves, would probably be the least charismatic leading man in cinema history, is still able to blend in as a criminal henchman despite the fact that he looks about as menacing as the cast of "Leave It To Beaver". Tyrese, who seems to forgive and forget his estranged buddy sending him to prison in record time does a decent job overall but it doesn't do much to save this one from being a mess.

"2 Fast 2 Furious" is a dissapointing sequel to a movie that was for the most part, an overrated full-length car commercial disgusied as a movie. While the original at least had its share of entertaining moments despite its juvenile plot and cardboard characters, this sequel doesn't seem to have such luck. Singleton, who still remains one of my favorite directors despite his involvement in this atrosity, should have known better than to take on this one.

Computer car stunts? Have we all forgotten the lessons of the 1970's, where a couple of good car wrecks could save an otherwise lousy movie?
I'm being generous giving this 2 stars. John Singleton is horrible and should immedietly be deported to the former Soviet Union.
Lame cars, action, lame everything. Go rent Hooper instead.

This movie showed us a whole new level of bad movies. From the unrealistic car scenes, to the abundant plot holes this movie has you falling asleep from the beginning. The first movie showed us that nitrous can make a car slightly faster, but the second movie showed us that nitrous will allow you to reach light speed somehow. When the cars in this movie use nitrous it somehow has the same effect as the space ships do in Star Wars when they travel through light speed. When anyone seems to use nitrous everything gets kind of burry and all you see are streaking lights like Star Wars uses. All the car scenes in this movie are totally unrealistic. The fact that we are supposed to believe that an EVO and an Eclipse are going to stand a prayer next to a Saleen Mustang, a Dodge Viper, and a Corvette Z06 is very insulting to anyone in the automotive world. The plot in this movie leaves nothing to the imagination as we are supposed to believe that this Paul Walker guy turns up missing and the police are after him, but then the next thing we know he is working for the police with his buddy who was also running from the law at one point. This is a movie that you want to miss!