Fast and Furious

I went to the cinema for this one, and was pleasantly suprised how good it was.

Don't get me wrong, it's not your epic, earth-shattering masterpiece, but as far as sequels go, this one was pretty good.

If you didn't like (or see) any of the previous movies, don't go and see this one. For a start, it will make no sense at all, and secondly it's pretty much the same sort of thing.

You can imagine the movie executives pitching this one: "Vin Diesel and Paul Walker drive cars really fast, and change gear a million times a minute, while people try to kill them..... again".

Definitely one for the Orange cinema adverts to take the mickey out of.

But that doesn't mean it's not good. The action is fast (and furious), and the characters are well known enough to be able to get away with doing things that, in any other film, you'd just think was ridiculous.

I couldn't help but get the feeling that this was really intended to be the 2nd in the series, rather than the 4th. As long as you've seen the first one, you haven't really missed much plot-wise.

And I'd swear that one of the characters in this was killed-off in the 3rd film (Tokyo Drift), so maybe it was intended to be before that, but it never really made that part clear.

Either way, if you like these kind of films, or are just in the mood for watching a couple of hours of fun, but barely believeable action. Then this film delivers.

But just how many gears does the average car have??

Score: 8.5/10

(Maybe a bit lower if you're not a fan of the series)

-- Smyth --