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| Original Title |
Fast and the Furious, The |
| Director |
Rob Cohen |
| Genre |
Thriller, Action, Crime |
| Released |
2001-06-18 |
| MPAA Rating |
Rated PG-13 for violence, sexual content and language. |
| Rated |
5.9 |
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| The Fast & The Furious is loosely based on an article in a magazine about street clubs that race Japanese cars late at night. The film stars Vin Diesel as Domenic Toretto, the leader of a street gang that is under suspicion of stealing expensive electronic equipment. Paul Walker plays an undercover police officer that attempts to find out who exactly is stealing the equipment, while falling for Domenic's younger sister played by Jordana Brewster. |
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| Paul Walker as Brian O'Conner , Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto , Michelle Rodriguez as Letty , Jordana Brewster as Mia Toretto , Rick Yune as Johnny Tran , Chad Lindberg as Jesse , Johnny Strong as Leon , Matt Schulze as Vince , Ted Levine as Sgt. Tanner , Ja Rule as Edwin , Vyto Ruginis as Harry , Thom Barry as Agent Bilkins , Stanton Rutledge as Muse , Noel Gugliemi as Hector (as Noel Guglielmi) , R.J. de Vera as Danny Yamato |
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Corybantic
Spoilers herein.
Emphasis on the Furious.
My ideal movie will take me to unknown places, ideally through new visual
experiences. This film tries twice to do so. On one of these accounts, it
fails, but the other really impressed me. And I'm a hard
case.
The failure was that the filmmaker thought he discovered a new
counterculture worth exploring. As with all such, it is illegal, costly,
dangerous, urban and youth-centered. But this is rooted in asian-influenced
techno and has an appearance that is unique. The writers (were there any?)
weren't good enough to capture any of this beyond showing us the cars. A
failure.
The success was in extending the visual grammar. Nothing revolutionary or
original here. But the visual effect does push the experience to a new
level. I believe it does so by relying on Manga, which is the art of this
same counterculture. I'm pretty shocked that no one here has compared the
essential style to `Akira.'
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