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Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, John Ortiz ... see more see more... , Laz Alonso , Sung Kang , Gal Gadot , Jack Conley , Shea Whigham , Liza Lapira , Tego Calderon , Don Omar , Mirtha Michelle , Greg Cipes , Ron Yuan , Alejandro Patino , Joe Hursley , Cesar Garcia , Brandon T. Jackson , Leigh Folsom

Vin Diesel and Paul Walker return to the film franchise that helped to launch each of their respective careers as the Fast and the Furious series winds to a close under the creative eye of Fast and th... read more read more...e Furious: Tokyo Drift director Justin Lin. Fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto (Diesel) is back in Los Angeles to seek out the truth behind a high-profile crime, but his presence in town doesn't sit well with Agent Brian O'Conner (Walker). These two rivals are forced to unite in the cause of fighting a common enemy, however, when convoy heists and precision tunnel crawls lead them out of Los Angeles and into the Mexican desert. Now, in order to take down a formidable opponent with some serious skills behind the wheel, Dom and Brian forge an uncertain partnership while exploring thrilling new frontiers in the fine art of racing. Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, and John Ortiz co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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PG-13, 1 hr. 47 min.

Directed by: Justin Lin

Release Date: April 3, 2009

Keywords: action, 3rd, 4th, fifth, car, racing, 5th

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DVD Release Date: July 28, 2009

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  • jmanard52
    September 6, 2009
    jmanard52
    Excellent flick. Much better than the middle two. Just forget those movies happened. This was good balls to the walls action with much better actors with the original 4 back together. Bad idea making 2 and 3 :)
  • fb1442511448
    August 11, 2012
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    The reunion of the original stars give a warm-feel to this new-age of street racing and concept. Though not as powerful as its original make, the new model provides an action-packed kick into overdrive. Weak dialogue and predictable plot slows down the film but still manages to e... read morentertain regardless. 4/5
  • lewiskendell
    October 7, 2011
    lewiskendell
    Fast & Furious is no masterpiece of subtlety and drama, but it is pretty entertaining. Especially if you like hot cars and hot, scantily clad women.

    I really can't tell you how much the story has in common with that of the previous movies (I honestly don't remember the stories ... read moreof any of these movies a week after seeing them), but who really watches these for the story. There's something about Dom (Vin Diesel) looking for revenge and Brian (Paul Walker) trying totaled down some drug importer. Obviously, both those things involve lots of cool cars racing around (the parts that I do end up remembering). That's where the movie shines, even though there aren't quite enough of them. The car scenes are genuinely exciting, with director Justin Lin having a great eye for capturing that kind of action.

    All in all, this is a slick action movie that more than lives up to the Fast & Furious name. If you liked the others, you like this one too.
  • 3niR
    September 22, 2011
    3niR
    It's the best in series. Even a not-a-car-lover like me enjoyed this. Can't wait to see next one.
  • DreamExtractor
    September 15, 2011
    DreamExtractor
    It was good, not great but good. Vin Diesel is back and good thing too, I missed him. Its like a fresh breath of air since the original, because its kind of a direct sequel to the first. The plot was the worst of the series (with the exception of Tokyo Drift), but not horrible... read more. The racing scenes are awesome (no surprise there), a very worthy edition to the franchise.
  • LWOODS04
    August 16, 2011
    LWOODS04
    Cast: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Laz Alonso, Gal Gadot, John Ortiz, Sung Kang, Kofi Natei, Wilmer Calderon, Ron Yuan, Tego Calderón, Don Omar, Lil Wayne, T.I.

    Director: Justin Lin

    Summary: Fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) must t... read moreeam with his old nemesis Agent Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) and take on a common enemy in the latest full-throttle installment of the speed-racing franchise. Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster reprise their roles as Letty and Mia, respectively, in the action adventure, which features pulse-pounding convoy heists and precision tunnel crawls.

    My Thoughts: "Finally it gets back to the original players and is worth watching again. The action and the car chases are amazing as usual. The cars are great eye candy. Everything I loved about the first film is reprised in this film. I think Vin Diesel and Paul Walker are great together and the dynamo between Dominic and Brian is enough reason to see it. Great action, good plot, and great acting by most. It's definitely worth the rental."
  • xXGiNoBiLiPRXx
    August 14, 2011
    xXGiNoBiLiPRXx
    New Model. Original Parts.

    Saw it again!!! The movie was good but it was different and there isn't much racing, the story is more serious than the other movies. This movie is actually a pre-quel to Tokio Drift And Fast Five. I liked it anyways even though there's not so many rac... read morees, alot of funny and latin stuff going on including Tego and Don Omar from PR.

    After a successful run at hijacking fuel tanks on the highways of the Dominican Republic, Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) leaves his girlfriend Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) and his gang, as he is now an international criminal. Eventually, Dominic's partner Han (Sung Kang) flees to Tokyo, causing Dominic to also flee. One day, in Panama, Dominic receives a phone call from his sister Mia (Jordana Brewster), who tells him that Letty was just murdered. Dominic returns to Los Angeles, California, to find out who murdered Letty. After Letty's funeral, Dominic asks his sister to take him to the site where Letty's accident occurred. At the scene, Dom finds traces of nitromethane residue that can only be purchased at one body shop in L.A.. At the body shop, he finds one of his old racing counterparts that, after being coerced, leads him to a man named David Park. Dominic finds Park and hangs him out of a window threatening to drop him and vowing to kill anyone that stands in his way of avenging Letty. He receives the information that only through a street race, arranged by Ramon Campos, can he gain access to the man responsible for Letty's death.

    Meanwhile, Brian O'Connor (Paul Walker)now an FBI agent, is assigned to track down a notorious drug lord named Arturo Braga. Brian, after chasing down a criminal on foot, receives information also leading to David Park. Both Dominic and Brian, having received the same information are led to the underground entrance race that guarantees them a spot on the team that traffics heroin across the United States-Mexico border. During the race, Dominic and Brian outlast all of their competitors until the two of them remain and head towards the finish line neck and neck, Dominic sideswipes Brian's car ensuring that he comes in first, securing his spot on the team so that he can seek justice on Letty's behalf. Having lost the race, Brian uses his influence at the FBI to ensure that one of the other members on Braga's team, Dwight Mueller, gets arrested for "distribution of methamphetamine," in order to usurp his spot of the team. At a party, Ramon Campos, Braga's right hand man, welcomes them to the team and gives them a GPS that will alert them to where they will begin their race. Dominic ends up in a confrontation with a racer identified as Fenix, the driver of the car that collided with Letty before firing the shot that killed her.

    Dominic and Brian both receive the coordinates to meet with Campos and are transported, along with their cars by semi-trailer to the Mexican border to receive the heroin that they are to transport, from there they are to follow Fenix's lead to the other side through an underground tunnel so they aren't seen by the satellite images and forward looking infrared used to monitor the borders. After the transport, Dominic realizes that the drivers are thought of as disposable and that after successful trafficking of the product they are shot and killed in order to avoid paying them. Letty, having been in the same situation was the only driver to get away when they attempted to shoot her, it was the pursuit that led to the car crash and subsequent shooting causing her death. Dom anticipated the double-dealing because of the warning given by Gisele, Braga's liason, in the form of the Spanish phrase "vaya con dios", set his car to explode by discharging nitrous oxide with the spark from the cigarette lighter in his car after he learns from Fenix that he was responsible for killing Letty with no remorse. Brian hijacks one of the Hummers carrying the heroin, escaping the gunfire, and head back to the U.S., where Dominic learns that Brian was contacted by Letty who agreed to infiltrate and collect information leading to Braga in exchange for clemency for Dominic. Brian speaks to his superiors about a plan that he has devised to trade the heroin for Braga if they will pardon Dominic.

    An exchange is arranged with Campos, 6 million dollars for the heroin, provided that Braga be the one to deliver the money personally. The FBI is poised to arrest Braga at the exchange site, however, Dominic and Brian both realize that Campos is in fact Braga before the FBI does and the raid is botched. Braga evades capture and flees over the Mexican border out of the FBI's jurisdiction. Brian and Dominic head after him on their own and find him in a cathedral praying for salvation. They kidnap Braga with intent to take him back to the United States where he can be tried and imprisoned for drug trafficking, but after having taken him captive they are chased by Braga's henchmen. The chase leads to the same underground tunnels that they went through in order to transport the drugs into the United States. Once on the United States side of the border, Dominic kills Fenix by crushing him with his car and Braga is finally apprehended by the FBI, as is Dominic.

    Dominic is tried for his crimes and, though Brian appealed to the courts on his behalf, is sentenced to "25 years to life without the possibility of early parole." The movie concludes with Brian, Mia, Tego, and Rico racing towards the prison bus transporting Dom to the Lompoc Penitentiary.
  • fb729949618
    August 1, 2011
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    Expected more with the OG crew back together.
  • fb100000145236770
    May 14, 2011
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    By far the best of the 3 sequels to the original. Set 5 years after number 1, and sometime before number 3(unless Han didn't actually die in 3 and had never been to Tokyo). I really like how this features some racing, but starts to take the series in a different direction. Vin... read more Diesel is great, and Paul Walker is much better in this one than the first 2. Some of the effects are over the top(like Dom driving under a burning, tumbling tank of gas), but overall it's a very fun action movie. Justin Lin directed this one along with 3 and 5, and I must say thank god for him, as he completely resurrected this series and got it back on track.
  • matertenebraum
    May 12, 2011
    matertenebraum
    I have read all previous comments and only see a couple of people that actually make a comment that it is supposed to happen between 2 Fast 2 Furious and Tokyo Drift... I'm sure this had something to do with Justin Lin directing Tokyo Drift as well as Fast & Furious. I'm glad tha... read moret he made it happen that way because I am sure there were many people that saw Tokyo Drift and thought, "Where did this movie come from?" It was so random to have it be a Fast and Furious movie when it had nothing to do with either of the original 2 with the exception of the again, random, cameo of Dom at the end of it. In the first couple of scenes of Fast & Furious you see that Han is part of Dom's crew that hi-jacks gas tankers in the Dominican Republic. When the heat is on Dom once again, he tells Han it's time to go do his own thing. Han tells him that he hears of some things going on in Tokyo. If you recall in Tokyo drift, Han tells Sean that Tokyo is his "Mexico" he was running to stay out of jail.

    I really enjoyed this movie. The plot wasn't as detailed as the previous but it followed along well with what you think might happen in a Fast & Furious movie... Paul Walker plays Brian O'Conner again, he is still working law enforcement, although this time he is big boy FBI. Vin Deisel is back as Dominic Toretto. He and Brian are trying to get in with a drug ring for different reasons, but team up to help each other get what they are after.

    The movie is full of everything you expect from the franchise: Nice cars, great racing, hot women and hot guys (to suit everyone's taste) This movie has great action sequences as well. I recommend this movie to anyone that has followed the other 3... or at least the first 2.

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Critic Reviews

Laremy Legel
May 6, 2011
Laremy Legel, Film.com

Though I admit the title of the film is slightly dumb, I can't really fault much else going on here. Full Review

Derek Adams
April 9, 2009
Derek Adams, Time Out

Turn off your mind, though, and there's some fun to be had from some of the better whizz-bang sequences. Full Review

Ben Mankiewicz
April 6, 2009
Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies

This is a movie about street racers... criminals in fact, and there was nothing grimy or dirty about it at all. Full Review

Ben Lyons
April 6, 2009
Ben Lyons, At the Movies

This is more of the same. Full Review

Lou Lumenick
April 3, 2009
Lou Lumenick, New York Post

The stars look bored out of their minds when the fourth episode of the franchise stalls between racing sequences, which is all too often in a flick where 106 minutes speed by in what feels like at lea... Full Review

Stephen Whitty
April 3, 2009
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

People who want nothing more out of a movie than an extended rap video -- there's lots of hip-hop, close-ups of cars, and women in shiny tiny shorts -- may be satisfied. But this movie isn't much more... Full Review

Tom Long
April 3, 2009
Tom Long, Detroit News

This franchise is out of gas. Full Review

James Berardinelli
April 3, 2009
James Berardinelli, ReelViews

The end result, while it provides moments of kinetic entertainment, is too repetitive and uneven to be satisfying. Full Review

Stephanie Zacharek
April 3, 2009
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

Fast & Furious spends a lot of time advertising how exciting it is, without actually being exciting. Full Review

Mick LaSalle
April 3, 2009
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

Aside from the opening sequence, there's nothing imaginative about it, and the actual filming is routine shaky-quick-cut stuff. Full Review

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    • Dwight: Muscle always beats Import.
    • Ramon Campos: You and me we not so different.
    • Dominic Toretto: I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I'm free.
    • Dominic Toretto: Ask any racer, any real racer. It doesn't matter if you win by an inch or a mile; winning's winning
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