Good concept, poorly executed.

Fresh and Exciting

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

This film is probably the dumbest sh** I have ever tried to watch. They have made about ten of these films now and I'm sure they gotten worse since this one. Anyone with half a Brain should avoid this.

This review contains spoilers.The Fast and The Furious is an action movie starring Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, and Michelle Rodriguez. The Fast and the Furious is an action movie that uses race cars as its main action set piece. The story follows Brian O'Conner, an undercover cop played by Paul Walker, that tracks a group of hijackers that utilize race cars.The story is really an excuse to have high octane car chases and races. From the beginning, the story opens with a car chase with the race cars in view. This scene shows the series prioritizes these scenes. I do not have a problem with this as the series is great in its ability to have some weight to its well-done action scenes. The racing scenes have not aged well with many gratuitous scenes, but this is acceptable as it is a view of both the times and culture of street racers.There are some plot holes that the audience should ignore because of the movie's focus. The main one is Brian O'Conner's willingness to allow Dominic Toretto to go free. It was strange to see as Brian never felt like a cop and should have never been part of the force. It felt more fitting that Brian be a racer attempting to work his way up rather than as an undercover cop. There would have been more street races with this route.Vin Diesel does a good job as Dominic Toretto and the movie absolutely needed his character. I did like the route the movie took with trying to establish him as a father figure to his crew. This does feel cheesy at times but it is entertaining.The action scenes are the complete focus here. You should only be watching this movie for the action. This is what made the movie a summer blockbuster hit. With the actors in their places, this movie excels at these scenes.The Fast and the Furious is not a complete movie. The movie tilts to the action side too much. This is at least enjoyable and it should be the reason to watch this movie.

"The Fast and the Furious" is not a great movie, but it delivers what it promises to deliver, and knows that a chase scene is supposed to be about something more than special effects. It has some of that grandiose self-pitying dialogue we've treasured in movies like this ever since "Rebel Without a Cause." "I live my life a quarter-mile at a time," Toretto tells Brian. "For those 10 seconds, I'm free." And, hey, even for the next 30 seconds, he's decelerating.

"The Fast and the Furious" is an American movie from 2001, so this one had its 15th anniversary already last year. It runs for 105 minutes roughly and the script was developed overall by no less than 4 writers, the most known one being David Ayer I guess. The director is Rob Cohen and this is probably still the most known effort from his career. He never returned to direct any other of this franchise's films. And now I said it already that this action movie we have here is the very first from the extremely long-running F%F franchise that is still very strong today. Eight films have been there so far and two more are already greenlit. The franchise seems unstoppable as even the death of number 1 lead actor (at least in this film we have here) Paul Walker did not put an end to the series. But we don't wanna talk about his tragic fate today, but instead on this film we have here. Tragic, or at least sad is also a fitting description for the film I would say as I was not convinced by anything in here really apart from the effects perhaps. People often say that this is a movie for men, but if you take a look at the demographics here you will realize that women have actually given it an 0.3 higher rating, which of course also has to do with the quantity of voters. But still, saying this is a film for men is is pretty inaccurate in my opinion as it would imply that men have worse taste in film than women because honestly there is nothing impressive at all about the story here, the character writing and also the performances.I believe that in terms of depth, the story could have fit in under one hour as well. The rest is mostly "cool" quotes that add nothing really, gimmicky actions from the characters and then of course the pompous action scenes that turn this film into a definite case of style over substance. The core story of a cop infiltrating a gang of very fast drivers in order to get evidence on illegal activities is nothing that hasn't been done before and frequently better. If you read the actors names, you also know that honestly you can't expect any powerhouse performances in here. It is all subordinated to the visual side and with the casting they absolutely made sure none of the cast members is going to take any attention away from that. The epilogue is probably even more embarrassing than the rest and honestly having seen none of the many many sequels I truly hope they managed to step things up and give audiences more than pointlessly spectacular car sequences and when they had enough of that they switched to motorbikes and even helicopters. With films like this, there is of course always the opportunity for pointless fun, but this requires the film to not take itself as seriously as this one here did on several occasions. I give it a thumbs-down and like I said if the following films don't show improvement then I probably cannot be as generous as I was here with my 4/10 rating. watch something else instead.