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Zed
02-15-2002, 11:02 AM
******** SPOILERS WARNING **************.

The Fast and The Furious

Directed by
Rob Cohen (The Skulls, Daylight)

Written by:
Gary Scott Thompson
Ken Li

Cast
Paul Walker
Vin Diesel
Jordana Brewster
Michelle Rodríguez

Plot:
An undercover cop tries to find who the hell is stealing some big trucks with electronical appliances and similar stuffs.
Meanwhile he meet some cute babe and get into a car racers band.

Script:
Oh Shit!!!!
What do you do when you don’t have any new ideas? It’s pretty simple. You just take an old one, make a few changes and write a new movie.
After watching “Break Point” (1991) a few years ago, I found this flick as a cheap copy.
Both films got only this few things in common:
1-An undercover cop.
2-Gets into a band (racers not sufers this time).
3-He find his new best friend in the group.
4-He point the wrong band.
5-He fall in love with a girl in the band.
6-His “new friend” turns to be the real robber.
7-At the end he participate in the robbery.
8-He chase “the bad guy”.
9-He let him go because he was his friend.

This seems like too much coincidences for me. Also the dialogues were bad and boring.
My grade for a cheap copy: 1/10.

Acting:
Well, is not a movie with Nicholson and De Niro definitely. Paul Walker act for what he get paid for and Vin Diesel was regular. I didn’t complain about Jordana’s work. But one thing is truth….this movie will not be saved by great performances.
Acting grade: 5 / 10.

Directing:
Well, what you can ask to the director of “Daylight”? The direction was very poor. The actors seems like orphans during the entire film, without a guide about what they most do and what they most not do.
Directing grade: 3/10. (he tried in the action secuenses).

Production:
Well, the highest point of the film were the cool cars they showed. Anyone against that? The special effects were barely fine.
Production grade: 6 / 10.

Final grade: 4 / 10. (I’ll better watch Break Point again next time).


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Mike
02-15-2002, 01:34 PM
Check out my review here:

http://www.joblo.com/ubb/Forum13/HTML/001227.html

inglourious basterd
02-15-2002, 02:09 PM
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Zed:
******** SPOILERS WARNING **************.

Script:
Oh Shit!!!!
What do you do when you don’t have any new ideas? It’s pretty simple. You just take an old one, make a few changes and write a new movie.
After watching “Break Point” (1991) a few years ago, I found this flick as a cheap copy.
Both films got only this few things in common:
1-An undercover cop.
2-Gets into a band (racers not sufers this time).
3-He find his new best friend in the group.
4-He point the wrong band.
5-He fall in love with a girl in the band.
6-His “new friend” turns to be the real robber.
7-At the end he participate in the robbery.
8-He chase “the bad guy”.
9-He let him go because he was his friend.

This seems like too much coincidences for me. Also the dialogues were bad and boring.
My grade for a cheap copy: 1/10.</font>

You should give some credit to Common Sense man (who posted that idea more clearly a month back)...

Proof of that is found here:

http://www.joblo.com/ubb/Forum10/HTML/004052.html

Check the link that Mike provided for more reviews of the same film. Next time, if you want to avoid duplicating the thread, just run a search for the movie using the "search" hyperlink under the "post new reply" button at the top of the page.

Zed
02-18-2002, 12:49 PM
Thanks for the cool tip.

I ignored that!!!

I will move my post there......

The Rob
02-18-2002, 06:22 PM
They took the civics from my friends dad's garage...... He got the DVD like 7 months before it was in stores.

Fergus
02-18-2002, 07:47 PM
There is no point in having two topics open on the same film at the same time, especially when Zed posted his review in Mike's thread. Consider this one closed.