The Fast and the Furious Review

Review of The Fast and the Furious (2001) by screenqueeen: 👍 3/5

It's a decent romp for what it is but if you're going to do a cars-only POINT BREAK rip two sequences (one and a half really) of the exact same type of high-speed heist isn't enough, and the races in the film are boiled down to driving in a straight line and pressing the NOS button at the right time. But that's just the film's 2-dimensional gimmicky mechanics, the character interactions are what make this more interesting in a "that's weird" kind of way.

It gets quite a bit more bonkers near the end, like the mini conversation Brian has with Jesse when he's showing him a mockup of his new 10-second car from a 3.5 in floppy ("You should be at MIT." "No, I have that attention thing." "ADD?" "Yeah!") and the spidey-sense Dom and Brian display when the bikers are about to do a drive by to hit Jesse for taking the car back. It's mindless fun I can get into.