Director: Victor Lin
Producer: Samantha Vincent
Starring: Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez
The 4th film in the Fast and the Furious series, the film brings back much of the original cast in an almost desperate attempt to give the series a reboot. In a sense however one can guess at the target audience and the popularity of it amongst its legions of eager, young fans.
Although there is only a single race in the entire film with various chase sequences, the main appeal of the film, street racing, is not entirely utilized to full effect. Often the chases sequences too end rather predictably giving way to basically special effects that are not laid with any sort of plot foundation. However even the car chases and special effects involved in the car scenes is rather composed of rather dull CGI images. This CGI replaces traditional actual car crashes and replaces them with pathetic CGI representations. One particular atrocious scene involves a bouncing flaming tanker rolling down a steep road towards Dominic (Vin Diesel) and Letty (Michelle Rodriguez). They avoid the flaming death trap in a ridiculous way. They have no choice but to speed towards the bouncing tank and drive under it. Normally this would be a moment of tension, but it's not as the audience is aware that they will come out of it alive and well. Nevertheless, Fast and Furious does attempt to tell a reasonably interesting story. Reasonably because it never really works by the film's end. The story does not take long to give an emotional pull for the audience, but it pans out rather uninterestedly. Any calamities brought about by the first two films, such as O'Connor's betrayal of Mia, are brushed aside and given far too conventional, and easy explanations. Make no mistake, Fast and Furious is all about style over substance.
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