The Fast And The Furious (DVD) > Reviews

Advantages: the car scenes - wow and grrr
Disadvantages: sheesh, pants acting

SPEED - of the FAST variety, CARS - of the incredibly sexy and fantastic variety, WOMEN - of the scantily clad and attractive variety and TESTOSTERONE - of the oozing buffed up male variety… all join forces to make this visually stunning movie that will leave you literally aroused at the edge of your seats. Grr, grr, grr, gRR, GRRR and WOW! Now, that’s the advantages covered, now over to the dark side: I have fought this fight with ... Read review

Advantages: Few
Disadvantages: Many

...is a “chick flick” then The Fast and The Furious must surely be a “dick flick”. Completely absent of the sorts of thing a filmmaker would normally throw in to appeal to the ladies, this is a film made purely for the fellas. Watching the Fast and The Furious is rather like watching Top Gear on speed – it’s completely non-stop, completely out of its skull and completely pointless. You’ll need your reading glasses ... Read review

Advantages: Good action and suped-up motors
Disadvantages: Far too predictable

...exceptionally talented drivers and robbers, the Los Angeles police fear that the lorry drivers will take the law into their own hands. In an attempt to discover the identity of the gang of criminals, the police send one of their own, Brian Spilner, undercover into the world of the street racers in the hope of infiltrating the close nit community and discovering the identities of the robbers. Awkwardly forcing himself into the world of the street ... Read review

Advantages: Sexy men, action and cars
Disadvantages: yukky soundtrack

...recently, so I leapt at the opportunity to buy The Fast and the Furious on special offer! I sat down last night to watch it, with the full intention of drooling at Vin Diesel and Paul Walker (Well, I have been single nearly 6 months now!!). I have heard mixed reviews of this film, people either love it or hate it. So, which category would I fall into? The story is fairly simple. The film begins with the hijacking of a truck, by men in 3 black ... Read review

Advantages: Decent acting, directing and plot
Disadvantages: takes itself a little too seriously in places

The Street Racing culture in downtown LA is getting out of control and in particular someone from that scene has started hijacking lorries. Worried that the truck drivers will take the law into their own hands the LAPD put one of their own cops, Brian O’Connor, undercover on an FBI lead investigation to try and find out who is behind these attacks. O’Connor gets himself in with one of the Street Racing scene’s top dogs Dominic Toretto, the main suspect ... Read review

Advantages: Simple action film. Good cast, stunts and SPEED
Disadvantages: Weak plot and does not offer anything other than power.

...a good starting point, so the Fast and the Furious wins there. This however is a good film, as well as action and fast cars it is a very enjoyable watch. The film follows a plot that is neither complicated or outstanding, but gives a good excuse for some racing and shoot outs. Brian O’Connor is an undercover policeman who’s mission is to end a spate of truck robberies of electrical equipment. The suspects are part of LA’s street ... Read review

Advantages: Lives up to its name with plenty of fast cars
Disadvantages: Acting and plot are hackneyed in places

‘The Fast and the Furious’ is a film that delivers exactly what you expect – plenty of fast cars, scantily-clad women, Vin Diesel flexing his muscles and a pumping, bass-heavy soundtrack. Naturally, it never ever threatens to break any new ground in terms of plot or characterisation, but that’s not why I watched it in the first place! This is ideal viewing for that night in with mates and a beer or two, when all you want is ... Read review

Advantages: Great action, cars, excitement, Vin Diesel
Disadvantages: Some plot holes but it doesn't really matter

...reasons why we go to the cinema. Sometimes we need to be taken to another world, another reality where unreal things are done. Most of the time this is what happens in actions films, some get it right, some get it horribly wrong. This law applies to many films that feature cars as some of the stars. I'm glad to say The Fast and the Furious is one that gets it right. You want action -- you've got it. You want good looking guys and girls -- you ... Read review

Advantages: Great No-Brainer
Disadvantages: Nothing to try the grey matter

Once again the Vamp’s writing about one of his finds in this Tuesday’s ‘buy 3 DVD’s for £25’ star-find - this time being the speed-freak thriller - ‘The Fast and The Furious’, a movie that I’ve wanted to buy for a long time but all the time I’ve begrudged paying full price for it for a while as the words ‘mixed reviews’ comes to mind. But now, its been added to the looooooooong line of discs that have found their way into my grubby little mits and ... Read review

Advantages: Great action, acting and plot
Disadvantages: none

The Fast and the Furious is about cars… fast cars. This however isn’t all the film is about as it manages to have a good plot too. Most of does revolve around cars to its advantage. The plot centres on a group, led by Dominic "Dom" Toretto (Vin Diesel) that race high performance cars on the streets of Los Angeles. It is suspected that some of the group are hi-jacking trucks and stealing millions of pounds in DVD players and other valuables. ... Read review

Advantages: Fast, loud and cool
Disadvantages: Skinny on action (due to small budget)

For a movie about the illegal world of street racing and daring car-assisted hijacks, there isn’t as much vroom vroom action as I was expecting in this, Rob Cohen’s seventh directorial adventure (his other efforts including Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story and The Skulls). The movie opens with a slick truck theft, using a few fast cars and a harpoon, which sets the tone nicely for the daredevil action to follow. What it doesn’t do ... Read review

Advantages: see review
Disadvantages: see review

...decide to go out to the cinema to watch one. Sometimes you do not care if the plot is thinner than Ally McBeal on a diet and little more than a clothes peg upon which to hang a bunch of mindless stunts upon. Sometimes you need a movie like The Fast And The Furious. There is no plot here to speak of. Well, ok, there is a small one. A bunch of street racers are terrorising the city by driving at high speed in their souped up sports cars etc. This ... Read review