The Fast And The Furious (Turbo Edition) (DVD)

...in L.A., 'The Fast and The Furious' tells of an undercover cop (Paul Walker, aka "Brian O'Connor") who is sent in to investigate the thefts of expensive electronic appliances and entertainment systems from hijacked, moving trucks. He sets about getting into the life of Domonic Toretto (Diesel), an infamous street racer, and one of the top suspects in the case. Along the way, O'Connor gets sucked into the gritty underworld of illegal street ...
...(Jordana Brewster).

The films winds through many different locations and keeps the audience on the edge in a whodunnit manner, and shows the torment being inflicted on O'Connor, as he is torn between justice, love, his job, and his friends (not to mention his new found need for speed).

Despite some less than average acting moments from several of the cast, on the whole it is an entertaining and truly exhilerating film. ... more

Paul Walker and Vin Diesel star in this action packed, racing orientated blockbuster.

Set in L.A., 'The Fast and The Furious' tells of an undercover cop (Paul Walker, aka "Brian O'Connor") who is sent in to investigate the thefts of expensive electronic appliances and entertainment systems from hijacked, moving trucks. He sets about getting into the life of Domonic Toretto (Diesel), an infamous street racer, and one of the top suspects in the case. Along the way, O'Connor gets sucked into the gritty underworld of illegal street racing, facing triads, armed truckers and falling for Torettos sister, Mia (Jordana Brewster).

The films winds through many different locations and keeps the audience on the edge in a whodunnit manner, and shows the torment being inflicted on O'Connor, as he is torn between justice, love, his job, and his friends (not to mention his new found need for speed).

Despite some less than average acting moments from several of the cast, on the whole it is an entertaining and truly exhilerating film. The action scenes are well thought out, there are several moments of comic genius and simply the rorty screaming of twin exhausts and elegant lines of high-speed, decalled road machines are is enough to make anyone enjoy this film.

Naturally this would appeal to car fans, including brilliant drag racing moments, cop chases through back alleys, a climactic life or death encounter with a speeding truck, and many more.
The cars used are in essence, beautiful. They are based around Japanese tuner cars but have been made especially for the film and are uniquely fascinating as individual works of art.
For the classic fan, there is also an appearance from a 1968 Dodge charger, to really get your juices going.

At the end of the movie, there is a short preview film to lead into the sequel, 2Fast2Furious. This is a good bit of fast-forwarded storyline and pleasantly bridges the gap between the two films. Director, Rob Cohen, provides an interesting and in depth commentry on the film as part of one of the extra sections of the dvd. One nice feature (albeit less than informative) was the guide to 'tricking out a hot import car', and was not much more than an excuse to show of some more of the automotive eye candy that this film provides in abundance

The deleted scenes are brief, but as with any deleted scenes, well worth watching if only out of curiousity. The multiple camera angles option is brilliant and can boost enjoyment of watching the film a second time by far. Behind the camera footage is average but interesting all the same, and covers many aspects of the films production and filming.

Unfortuneatly, the DVD-rom features didn't all work as planned (as in I could not gain access to them). In fact, I couldn't play the disk at all on my PC, despite being sure that I have all the necessary hardware and software installed correctly.
Oh well, I shan't put this down to the fault of the disk as my computer probably hasn't been set up correctly by me, but it's still a point worth considering just incase.

The film lasts 102 minutes and runs with a screen ratio of 2.35:1, oddly enough the two selectable languages to view the film in are English and Hungarian (I don't know why, maybe the films have a large hungarian following?).

Subtitles are available in:

Arabic
Bulgarian
Croatian
Czech
Danish
English
Finnish
Greek
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Norwegian
Polish
Slovene
Swedish
Turkish

High sound quality is courtesy of Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround sound.

All in all I think this is a brilliant DVD of one of my favourite films. The Turbo-Charged edition has so many bonus features over the basic DVD (multi-camera angles e.t.c.) and the user loading interface is artistically and artistically designed featuring background music from the soundtrack. The DVD is rated as a 15 (as was the original film), and is well worth a look. 

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