"Fast & Furious" [REVIEW]0
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Last night a Homie (inside joke) and I took full advantage of Orange Wednesday’s and headed to our local cinema to catch the latest edition to the Fast & the Furious franchise, simply entitled “Fast & Furious”. Which, unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know features the original cast from the first movie: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michele Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster.
I’m a big fan of the first two movies (ignored the one with Bow Wow) and so, naturally, was anticipating this one. With the full original cast back on board, I was preparing for an all out no brainer smash. I was sadly wrong. Instead I was left disappointed at the laughable script, weak story line and general cheese fest the film ended up being. The only redeeming aspect of the movie was of course, those all important action scenes – which were tight (but not mind blowing).
Now, I’ love the action genre, so I don’t necessarily expect a riveting story, complex plot lines and/or a whole heap of intellectually challenging twists – however (and stupidly so), I do expect a certain standard. It was strange to witness a film with such little dialogue acted out so terribly. Pretty much the entire on screen cast failed to deliver a single line convincingly. But then, in fairness, they didn’t really have much to play around with. The story, despite one tiny little surprise, was incredibly flat and extremely predictable. Which again, in this genre, is somewhat bearable if only the action scenes are so big, so intense and so memorising that it makes up for everything else – nothing in “Fast & Furious” did that unfortunately.
I feel I’m being a little too harsh on this, but I think that’s only because I was pretty excited about seeing it. I really couldn’t recommend anyone go see this, but I know there will be those who love it (my sister being one of them!). So, I say cop it from your local DVD man or boi, just hit up your favourite torrent site. Don’t pay top dollar to see it.
I’d give it a 2 out of 5.
Peace, Love & “Fast & Furious”
Speeakz
