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A Masterpiece!

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Was Roman Pearce an alpha male? His Character Seemed Like He Was An Alpha Male.But this is not an ordinary delivery. The drivers are expected to drive at speeds ranging from 100 mph to jet-assisted takeoff velocities, which of course might attract the attention of the police, so the drug-lord has to arrange a 15-minute "window" with a corrupt cop, who he persuades by encouraging a rat to eat its way into his intestines.

Sorry about that pun.First,the good,the villain,he is much better than the one from the first movie,he is slightly charming,but feels like a real killer.The action,it is well paced and executed,and very fun.There is a lot more races,but that's not a bad thing when cars are the heart of this franchise.The music is great,and there is a lot more humor mainly due to Tyrese Gibson,and other characters like Ludicrous.The characters in general,are good,they're very entertaining and are good replacements for the original cast.The best part is Paul Walker and Tyrese Gibson's chemistry,seeing them get at each other's throats is just as fun as them having regular everyday conversations.Now,the bad,some of the dialogue feels very stupid and unrealistic,and sometimes the action outweighs the story.The worst part though,even though this movie was pretty good,the lack of Vin Diesel affects the movie a bit,as he was a great character and one of the best parts of the original,I also kind of missed the others.2 Fast 2 Furious is a really fun movie that feels slightly empty with the missing characters.

This is the cheesy, twisted wreckage of carbon fiber, bad acting, bikinis and awful acting that I imagine a lot of people think the first film is like.Brian O'Conner, GAP store mannequin Paul Walker, is now a former cop on the verge of arrest, but to avoid consequences he teams up with an old college friend, Tyrese Gibson, to help the police stop a drug dealer. This… somehow involves car racing.So, unlike the first film, the childishly named 2 Fast 2 Furious (whoever came up with that deserves a punch to the stomach) removes any sense of worth and just goes straight for the ham and cheese. Tyrese Gibson's "acting" is totally overboard, he has to be high on something during filming, he's acting like a human Jar Jar Binks. Next to him is Paul Walker, the least interesting element of the first film.The plot is… I don't even know. It bounces around between police business to shoved in car chases. At least The Fast and the Furious had a sense of community; a family unit that has racing at its heart, here, we get Walker and Gibson strutting into parties going "Aw man, check this out, bro!" at all the cars/car parts/girls in bikinis. Several times, and virtually shot-by-shot repeats! Utterly vapid screenplay. Plus, the sets and interior design work are horrendous! I know its set in Miami, but most of it is so gaudy with bright colours I swear I'm looking at some VIP section of McDonalds.But as we all know, surely the car action is the reason for being here? Well the film starts much like the first, only now we have the cardboard standee Walker pretending he's king of the hill, which is embarrassing. The girl drives the pink car, the boy drives the blue car, etc, making it feel like a game of Mario Kart (not to mention the CGI tinkered stunts). Later in the movie we have Tyrese doing his best to eat the scenery during car chases (and nobody here seems to realise that their racing opponents cannot hear their street trash talk during the race…) which definitely ruins any sense of excitement. The soundtrack is nowhere near as effective either.My brain was turned off so completely that I lost interest in what was happening. There was a freaky moment where the villain puts a rat in a bucket on a fat guy's stomach and proceeds to blowtorch the bucket though, that got my attention. Yeah, that was a thing.You want a good analogy of this film? This is the film equivalent of that moment when you are walking along the pavement, when suddenly a car flies past you and its driver shouts at you something like: "FFFWwweeeerhghgh Aggfhh!!" It is fast, you have no idea what possessed the person to do it, and it's instantly forgettable.

"The Fast and the Furious" was only a decent movie with Vin Diesel. Then Universal opted to move forward on a quick-turnaround sequel without one half of the duo that kept that movie engaging. Surprisingly, this doesn't completely doom "2 Fast 2 Furious," which struggles more with identity than it does trying to replace Diesel with Tyrese."2 Fast" moves the action to South Florida and opens with a neon-bedazzled street race that re-evokes the campy MTV Spring Break aesthetic of the last movie. O'Conner (Paul Walker) has been evading the law since he "flipped," but he can't help get in the game when Tej (Ludicrous) calls him up. Unsurprisingly, the cops bust the party and it lands O'Conner in federal custody. Agents Markham (James Remar) and Bilkins (Thom Barry, from the first film) then give O'Conner an ultimatum: Help their undercover agent (Eva Mendes) take down Miami drug lord Carter Verone (Cole Hauser) or prison. When they say he needs a partner, he enlists the help of childhood buddy Roman Pierce (Tyrese) with whom he left things on bad terms.Understanding that being without Dominic Toretto would be a big blow, writers Michael Brandt and Derek Haas wisely attempt to substitute a co-star that could provide a similar dynamic. Roman "Rome" Pierce fills the hole of having O'Conner be at odds in a brotherly way with someone else. Tyrese steps up admirably, but the rest of the movie ends up painting them as more of a typical buddy-cop duo, with shades of comedy even. Brandt and Haas attempt to go full-scale Hollywood with "2 Fast 2 Furious" and while the inventiveness takes a healthy step forward, it comes at the cost of what made the first film a little more alternative to the typical blockbuster. "The Fast and the Furious" felt a little gritty and down to earth at times, whereas "2 Fast" is thinking about how to be bigger and bolder.Those risks pay off in positive ways when it comes to the entertainment value. A game of chicken in the middle of relay race infuses some energy into what would've been just another race sequence; the warehouse trick has a cool surprise effect; and the final stunt of the film needs no explanation. It's fun and director John Singleton ("Boyz in the Hood") doesn't shy away from fun, even when it crosses the line to silly on many occasions.Yet the net effect of bigger stunts and sequences is not an improvement from the first film because of the way it sells out to a more traditional action movie formula. By the final act, it devolves into a spy movie with street-racing cars, which kind of reveals the entire film to be an attempt to make a "James Bond" movie with a "street" vibe. Even the villain is this rich guy who likes to torture people in gimmicky ways. Mendes is the Bond girl chained to said villain, but of course she's hopelessly attracted to O'Conner. Add all the "bros" and "braes" that O'Conner and Rome ceaselessly spew out, respectively, and it's not hard to see how Universal has taken a classic movie formula and dressed it up to reach an audience that would enjoy seeing Tyrese and Ludicrous in acting roles — or at least pay to see it. The first song used in the soundtrack actually has the phrase "2 Fast 2 Furious" in it. And you can't have rappers and R&B stars without surrounding them with busty women in bikinis to ogle.The digs come easy at "2 Fast 2 Furious" (the title, for one … ), but it manages to be creative and entertaining enough to counter its formulaic approach and desire to appeal to the basest of movie-watchers' instincts. It definitely understands what it is and how to maximize its appeal, even if we're wise to its ways.~Steven CThanks for reading! Check out Movie Muse Reviews for more