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Brian wins by bumping Dominics's car, making him lose control


2.38am, 29.12.12.


realistic, exciting car races, chases and crashes


I drank in the lurid images of juvenile delinquents gone wild: smoking, drinking, fighting, making out and driving like hell-bent lunatics. Such glorious decadence!


The Fast and the Furious" is a throwback to the drive-in era

the film is pure drivel, which is exactly why I enjoyed it


His chronic tuna-ordering leads to a confrontation with a gang member, triggering another big-ass action scene incorporating grunting males staking their turf, an encounter with Johnny Law and a wild car chase

By the time all is said and done, Dominic admits Brian into the inner circle, a move which infuriates the more hotheaded of his crew.

It all builds to a dandy climactic action scene spiced with overwrought dialogue and lots of meaningful glances.

The adrenaline flows fast and with a wide open throttle in this film. There are only two reasons to see The Fast and The Furious: The cars and the stunts

"What about the story?" you ask. There is one, but it's only really there to glue together some of the best driving stunt work I've seen in a long time

The story goes something like this: A cop goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of street racers lead by a guy . This gang leader could also be the leader of a gang of people who rob trucks full of electronic goodies in order to pay for car upgrades.

this could be excused as a guilty pleasure treat

Asians, whites, and blacks form street racing gangs, snarl at each other, bet against each other in street races, and shoot at each other to maintain their rivalries

There are also swarms of Storm Trooper-like cops rounding up these deviants.

The young undercover cop, Brian
, gets tight after a bad start with the top street car racer Dom Toretto 

Dom's dysfunctional loser family of hijackers and racers include: his mathematical genius high school flunk out engine man Jesse, his childhood pals Vince and Leon, and his sexy Mexican girlfriend Letty (Rodriguez-"Girlfight"), who is as tough as anyone in the gang (she punches one guy out with a shot to the jaw



must learn how to walk a blurred line between doing his job and reacting to his emotions

 this should keep them in highly charged pistons until the next truck heist

re was no artistic accomplishment derived from this by-the-numbers action pic. The acting can't be faulted, but it was left on the skidmarks on the road

two of the women have badly underwritten parts 

Diesel was all high-octane energy, acting either angry or looking tough with his shaved head while constantly flexing his musles