| The Fast and the Furious (2001)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
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| Paul Walker |
Brian O'Conner
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| Vin Diesel |
Dominic Toretto
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| Michelle Rodriguez |
Letty
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| Jordana Brewster |
Mia Toretto
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| Rick Yune |
Johnny Tran
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| Chad Lindberg |
Jesse
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| Johnny Strong |
Leon
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| Matt Schulze |
Vince
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| Ted Levine |
Sgt. Tanner
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| Ja Rule |
Edwin
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| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Thriller; Action; Crime |
| Director |
Rob Cohen |
| Writer |
Ken Li; Gary Scott Thompson |
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| Running Time |
106 mins |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
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| Plot |
| A guilty pleasure with excess horsepower, The Fast and the Furious efficiently combines time-honored male fantasies (hot cars, hot women, hot action) into a vacuous plot of crystalline purity. It's trash, but it's fun trash, in which a hotshot Los Angeles cop named Brian (Paul Walker) infiltrates a gang of street racers suspected of fencing stolen goods from hijacked trucks. The gang leader is Dom (Vin Diesel), ex-con and reigning king of the street racers, who lives for those 10 seconds of freedom when his high-performance "rice rocket" (a highly modified Asian import) hurtles toward another quarter-mile victory. Racing is street theater for a lawless youth subculture, and Dom is a star behind the wheel--charismatic, dangerous, and protective toward his sister Mia (Jordana Brewster), who's attracted to Brian as the newest member of Dom's car-crazy team. Director Rob Cohen treats this like Roman tragedy for MTV junkies, pushing every scene to adrenaline-pumping extremes; when his camera isn't caressing a spectrum of nitrous oxide-enhanced dream machines, it's ogling countless slim 'n' sexy race babes. The undercover-cop scenario cheaply borrows the split-loyalty theme perfected in Donnie Brasco; a rival Asian gang adds mystery and menace; and digital trickery is cleverly employed to explore the fuel-injected innards of the day-glo racecars. It's about as substantial as a perfume ad, but just as alluring, and for heavy-metal maniacs of any age, Diesel's superblown '69 Charger proves that Detroit muscle never goes out of style. --Jeff Shannon |
| Personal Details |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
28 |
| In Collection |
Yes |
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| Product Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| UPC |
025192127021 |
| Release Date |
2002 |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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| Color Closed-captioned DTS Surround Sound Widescreen Dolby |
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