What happens when you put a four days old hamburger into a microwave oven because you have nothing else to eat ? well either it is un-eatable or discover it has a new taste, indeed both happned to me during the screening of the fourth part of the Fast and the furious franchise.
First of all it brings back the whole cast from the original movie, which was not that good anyways, but the best in the previous three, let's not forget that this series of movies brought back the whole street racing spirit, and car customizing, and the whole "need for speed" games series of bad boys riding gorgeous cars, and cops undercover caught in the webs of temptation in various forms, girls money respect greed, and having their loyalty to each other and the game itself tested everyday
Dom (Vin Diesel) is doing small sumggling jobs in the Dominican republic, where his girlfriend Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) has joined him and where he assembled a crew of car enthusiastics to help him challenge the asphalt, the authorities and dangerous folks, indeed this is no life for anybody loving anybody, so after an opening worthy of a James Bond (the old good stuff, not the new crappy stuff) he decides to go on solo, only to be hit by the shovel of karma on the back of his head as something bad happens to his girlfriend and lets him full of the three R's, remorse, regrets and revenge.
Dom comes back to LA and starts to invistigate, since he is a known felon, it attracts the eyes of the FBI on him and his old pal Brian (Paul Walker) a quick tempered FBI agent with extreme methods and a love of racing, and whome Dom knows since he was an undercover cop inflitrating his crew, and who also had a romantic involvment with dom's sister (Jordana Brewster), add to this Arturo Braga (John Ortiz) a druglord who recruits street drivers to smuggle weight, and a bad boy so sterotypical you'd swer he is made of polygons, and you get the whole image of this blockbuster.
What attracted me to the movie theater myself was the lineup of the original cast, because it made me nostalgic to a more whatever period, of course you don't go there expecting to see an auteur movie, what fast and furious promises, fast and furious delivers, Cars Girls and Cliché, by the middle of the movie, the evil ghost of Robert Rodriguez strikes, and we find ourselves into another "once upon a time in mexico", until a "sequel promising" ending, and it was well handled to say the truth.
The revenge story is so predictable, the characters are not that multidimentional, but you watch this movie as you'd buy the last Timbaland produced record, it's fun, doesn't take itself too seriously, nice soundtrack, the CG is well integrated, and the emphasis put on loyalty, something i think is good for it's target age group, and it will make you drive a little faster on the way home, but you'd still wonder why the totally plastic surgery remade Michelle Rodruigez is missing from the movie, the last word being it's not "Vanishing point", but it's quite good.
Year: 2009
Director: Justin Lin
Starring: Paul Walker, Vien Diesel
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