AND........i'm back. exams are over and i've a whole four months of nothing but Ciao to rectify my a...
AND........i'm back. exams are over and i've a whole four months of nothing but Ciao to rectify my absence. So grab a cuppa, stay a while and sift thru the ideas of me..... ah go on!!!?.... what if i say please????
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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 everyone I know. So I’ll continue to fight it and all you guys can slander me for my opinion on the infamous ‘The Fast and the Furious’. I’ve started this opinion loads of times, truth being it never got beyond the title (which I see grasped your attentions – good job!) Can’t seem to spur up enough enthusiasm to write a semi-decent review on this movie, but my stamina will prevail, this time (mainly cause I don’t like the colour green and want to change the dot that’s attached itself to my name!)
Lets get the slagging match out of the way now boys. Yes I’m a woman, and seemingly this fact seems to make my opinion on this movie null and void. I’m a ‘chick’ I just ‘don’t get it’, and so say all the lads I’ve ‘discussed’ this movie with. I agree
this is all round male movie magic, the anti-thesis of a ‘chick-flick’, and a true ‘beer n tits ug UG UG!’ moment for you guys to share. But I, and all my feminine charms, loved the action, loved the cars, and the racing, and the effects and even the half-naked ladies (my mothers concerned at my apparent ‘kinks’). I appreciated the flowing testosterone, and the vrrrrrrrrrrrrooooooooooom (technical word, hope you can get your heads around it) with the best of you – and God damn did I feel the adrenalin whilst watching the Honda’s take on the trucks. I wanted to see this movie for the action; I went to the cinema for the action; I drooled over the action! On that front I was not disappointed, but there is more to a movie than action – surely!
PLOT: undercover cop infiltrates a group of American street racers in the hope of discovering the men behind recent hijackings of hi-tech expensive equipment. That’s it, original huh? Oh no wait, he struggles with his loyalties and finds love along the way with, wait for it, the ‘bad guys’ little sister. You’re surprised right? Blew me away too! Yeh, enough with the sarcasm Daysleeper, everybody is aware that the plot is borrowed from a million and one other movies, Hollywood is fast running out of the originals - but if it’s good it can get away with it - right!? ‘The fast and the Furious’ just didn’t pull it off.
Brian O’Conner, played by Paul Walker, is the good guy, clean cut cop thrown into Los Angeles’ hardcore street racing. [Cue really intense car scene, great breasts, immense effects and adrenalin rushes for audience] He attempts to gain the trust of big man on campus, Dom Toretto, played by Vin Diesel (a very attractive bit of stuff – aesthetically pleasing as they say) by showing off his bad ass attitude and knowledge of cars. After, say, three minutes of scepticism they buy it and wham bam thank you mam, he’s one of the boys. [Cue more fast, sexy vehicles and speed speed SPEED!] Four minutes later he’s in bed with Toretto’s little sister Mia, played by Jordan Brewster. [More cars, don’t complain, they’re dam impressive to watch.] And then everything goes pearshaped. OBVIOUSLY he’s grown attached and trusts in Dom’s innocence, at some point they supposedly bonded. And he loves Mia – like duh, they’ve spoken six sentences to each other – and he really doesn’t believe his new ‘family’ capable of the hijacking. Woe is he… torn loyalties…sleepless nights… heart v head… love v law? Feel his exhaustion, his heart ache - Sheesh can you handle it!
Eh yeh, we can!
See the problem with this movie is the acting! And acting, unlike action, makes a movie! The characters aren’t developed, they aren’t strong beings, and you can’t sympathise or feel or hurt or empathise with any of them. You just don’t care. Get back to the cars already! More speed! It lacks any real deep emotion, the script is weak, and unbelievably cheesy, even if the man delivering the lines is God like! Strong emotions are thrown in your face, yet not founded in anything worth believing in. So you can’t! I was bored of the characters, all of them, by about half way through. They failed to bring anything to this film, yet what could they do, they’re script was so poor. The movie gave too much of it’s time to the car scenes and not enough to its characters. Maybe it spenttoo much of it’s budget on fast vehicles and forgot that the actors needed to be great to pull it off. Don’t get me wrong, the lads looked damn fine behind the wheel. They just should never have spoken. Or perhaps they should have spoken more and driven less. I don’t know, they just blowed!
So on a whole – see this movie in the cinema. The car scenes are out of this world, I haven’t seen anything like them. The camera work on these scenes are extraordinary and you feel their adrenalin running, fast and furiously through your veins. The soundtrack is loud and thumping, perfectly scored for the atmosphere its trying to create. Yeh, when it’s good, its damn good – just don’t expect more than the action, cause when it’s bad it’s BAD! I probably won’t see this again, except maybe if someone, like one of the lads who won’t stop ranting about it, buys it on DVD, where I can fast forward the smarmy crap and aimless chit chat and get to the speed again.
The titles apt, very very apt – there just ain’t much more to it. And it takes more than action…
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good review. i liked the first film not the second. samxx
29th_Candidate 10.04.2002 07:59
Do I find this review helpful and trustworthy because I'm so charmed by it? I say definitely, but can I be trusted after I've been beguiled? Since I can't imagine anybody caring, I'm going to pass on the question. When are you going to write again, DS? That's a question I won't be passing on... --29th
Advantages: Back to the cruising scene with great cars, great sound systems and great girls. Action packed Disadvantages: It's not as good as Fast and Furious, poor acting, unrealistic story
Advantages: Plenty of action, nice effects, Vin Diesel, no need to think too hard. Disadvantages: Not really any, unless you're expecting something that it's not.
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