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Vin Diesel and Paul Walker return for another episode of Fast And The Furious, but this time its personal!

The Truth

Fast & Furious (Our Fast and Furious page) is best watched with a couple Tylenol, a cliche meter and most definitely the last showing of the night. Attempt to sit through the 7:00pm showing, and your be peppered with zit-covered teens, armed with Subaru and Neon key-chains, teenage girls screaming at Vin and Paul like they are the second coming of the Beatles, and young boys in track pants afraid to stand up because Michelle Rodriguez just did another sexy thing on the screen. (That was an intentional “pitching a tent” joke in case you missed it)

Maybe its just me, I’m approaching 40, but was there a need to keep the volume so high in the theater? I’m not watching Star Wars, there’s no Dolby 5.1 effect ready to blow my mind, just little cars that sound like 2 stroke lawnmowers. Alas, the Tylenol kicked in so by 1 hour in I was getting accustomed to the deafening noises and Vin Diesel one-liners.

The truth is, Fast & Furious had no purpose. I am unclear as to why they did another film, and apparently the writers were as well.

Fast & Furious opens with Dominic (Diesel) behind the wheel during an impressive heist. Toretto’s girlfriend Letty (Rodriguez.. SHAWING) is left for near dead. Toretto grows a pair, leaves sugar-plumb for her own good, so that she no longer has to live life as a fugitive.

What the bad guys don’t know, is that after attacking Letty (fatally) Dominic now has revenge on his mind. Enter Paul Walker, who happens to be chasing the same people who Toretto is after, and voila.. we have a plot. Or do we?

After many minutes of car chases, hot chicks and fights .. its all over but they leave us with an opening for yet another sequel … or so the rumor goes

The Action

Hey, lots of action in the film, so can’t knock it for that.

What’s good about it?

The girls, the cars, the chases, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster

What’s bad about it?

The acting, the premise, girlfriends dying, Paul Walker’s good looks, drifting, flames coming out of exhaust pipes, cliches

Cliche of the film

Brian O’Conner: This is where my jurisdiction ends.
Dominic Toretto: And this is where mine begins.

You’ll Like It If

Well, fans of the first one seem to really like this one.

Reminds me of

All of the previous ones.

The Verdict

Its a rental, and neither Michelle Rodriguez or Jordana Brewster do enough films.