DVD Movie Rating for: The Fast and Furious

4 out of 5

Movie Plot of: The Fast and Furious

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.

Paul Walker and Vin Diesel star in the action-adventure film The Fast and The Furious, a fierce and frenzied look at rival Los Angeles street teams who use street racing as a means of establishing power.

DVD Production Details of: The Fast and Furious

Starring: Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, See more

Director: Rob Cohen

Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound

Studio: Universal Studios

DVD Release Date: June 3, 2003
DVD Features:
Commentary by director Rob Cohen

Turbo-Charged Prelude For 2 Fast 2 Furious

Sneak Peek at 2 Fast 2 Furious

2 Fast 2 Furious Theatrical Trailer

Enhanced Viewing

Cast and Filmmakers

Tricking Out a Hot Import Car

Theatrical Trailer

ABC/ESPN Sports Trailer

DVD-ROM Features

Widescreen anamorphic format

DVD Easter Eggs

1) From the main menu, select bonus materials. Then arrow down to "MULTIPLE CAMERA ANGLE STUNT SEQUENCE". Then arrow right. You'll see what appears to be a yellow steering wheel appear over the right hand tail light of the tractor trailer. Press enter and you'll get to see the final stunt in an extended format using all eight camera angles. 2) Go the the Bonus Materials menu and select "Racer X: The Article That Inspired The Movie". When the article is on the screen, cursor up and a steering wheel will appear by the title. Selecting this will show a short video that starts with interviews and ends with several shots from the movie.

Cast of the movie: The Fast and Furious

• Paul Walker .... Brian O'Conner
• Vin Diesel .... Dominic Toretto
• Michelle Rodriguez .... Letty
• Jordana Brewster .... Mia Toretto
• Rick Yune .... Johnny Tran
• Chad Lindberg .... Jesse
• Johnny Strong .... Leon
• Matt Schulze .... Vince
• Ted Levine .... Sgt. Tanner
• Ja Rule .... Edwin
• Vyto Ruginis .... Harry
• Thom Barry .... Agent Bilkins
• Stanton Rutledge .... Muse
• Noel Gugliemi .... Hector (as Noel Guglielmi)
• R.J. de Vera .... Danny Yamato

Photo Gallery of the movie: The Fast and Furious

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Reviews of the movie: The Fast and Furious

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

Great action and illogic make this a good B movie
The Fast and the Furious star the always good Vin Diesel as a car racer- on the streets. He meets Brian (Paul Walker) in a good stoke of luck as he saves him from the cops. Then some more plot comes in into the film, but it the action that counts here.

Giving credit where credit is due, the film has outstanding action sequences involving car chases that haven't been this exhilarating since the infamous pod race in Phantom Menace. Plus (and surprisingly), the film envelops you into the story, and it makes you feel some actual feeling for the characters among the blaze of the cars. And for that I reccomend this movie for the thrill seeking audience that has chomped up the recent popcorn flicks such as Mummy 2, Tomb Raider and Swordfish (Fast and Furious is one of the best ones of it's kind so far this year).

However, with most B flicks come the inevitable flaws, and this has 2 usual yet still dumb ones. 1, from the looks at some of the steamy and violent scenes in the movie, it looks like as if director Cohen was making a rated R movie filled with even more action, sexual content and dare I say naughty language in the mix. Yet, once again, it might seem, the guys up top have made this film into yet another PG-13 flick to try and up the sales. That's why say what you will about the South Park movie, but at least they kept on trying at it until they got the R (and that is also evident from the s**t episode from 2 days ago) unlike such movies as Bring It On and Coyote Ugly.

And 2 (illogical part), this film takes place in Los Angeles, a city that is sometimes called the city on wheels. Then how come when the race in the streets scenes come up, you almost see no cars whatsoever on the streets (unless it's used for the plot or something)? I have a feeling that even though this doesn't have much logic in it, at least it's better here than in New York, cause then it would be just plain ludicrous. Anyway, like I said, It's a good action movie, though not a great one. Kudos go to the director, stunt co-ordinators, drivers and Diesel.