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3 words:a stupid movie. Yes. Yet another dumb movie from Hollywood. They seem to have discovered a new formula for action movies:truckload of ridiculously expensive cars+hot women(nice)+stupid "cool" pair of men(black and white)+stupid "cool" baddie+tons of AWFUL rap music=action movie worth a lot of dough. Where is the film industry heading to? Maybe in five years time films will consist only of people killing each other in incredible ways and driving fast cars without any intelligent dialog. Things I learned from this movie: -Fast car races are VERY BORING after 5 minutes of them -rap music acts as a kind of extra flavouring(not a good one) -Main characters HAVE to act "cool" throughout the film.

The chemistry between the protagonist and the sidekick was incredibly effective. Their tag team became the center attraction of the entire movie. The stunts and cinematography was good enough. Probably the biggest issue I had with this film was that the characters were mostly stale and mediocre. If it weren't for the exciting driving scenes, this would have been the worst movie of the entire franchise. It was unnecessarily long and too much unnecessary details. It did provide a great but brief background the characters, though. I guess I was just hoping that more interesting characters were present.

The plot is even thinner than the first one. The acting, worse. The dialogue, probably all ad-lib (and bad at that). If not ad lib, then shamefully bad. The action, while bigger, not necessarily better. It's also more mainstream with a "proper villain", instead of a bunch of "good criminals".

And yet, I won't deny that I wasn't bored. Probably because I got distracted by the gazillion hot women and Eva Mendes, plus, I actually liked the villain chewing the scene, for whatever reason.

So, yeah whatever. This one doesn't fail at being good because I honestly think it doesn't even try it. It's bad. But entertainingly so.

You know they went cheap in production when the editor was dumb enough to keep in a scene where the green screen video had a regulation street 4WD overtaking Brian and Roman with ease while they were supposed to be driving at top speed. If you want to give the impression that they're driving ridiculously fast, you remove all green screen scenes where the background cars overtake you while driving regularly.

Yeah thats all I have to say. Nothing happened in this movie, nothing felt fun, it was a chore.

There's a reason the world is going into a decline. It's movies like 2 Fast 2 Furious that are #1 at the box office. Now, you're going to blame me for the downfall of the world, but I DID NOT WANT TO SEE THIS! I thought, since my friend wanted to see this, eh, why not, it may not be that bad. That was the first mistake of the night. Next was actually paying $6 to see this. Last was actually not leaving the theater five minutes into it and not seeing another movie. Even the preview for Pirates of the Caribbean was better than this movie, and I think Pirates of the Caribbean looks like a horrible movie.

I'm just as ready as anyone for summer popcorn movies, but I expect them to be entertaining and fun. I don't mind stupid plots and undeveloped characters if I have a good time. 2 Fast 2 Furious was anything but that. Basically, it tried to be too many things: action, thriller, romance, drama, and comedy. Let me analyze them one by one.

For an action movie to be a good action movie, it needs to have many action scenes that keep you interested. Obviously, the car races are supposed to be the action, except, well, there were only about two, they didn't keep me interested, and they had such bad camera angles I thought I was going to vomit. I couldn't tell anything that anyone was doing because the camera was always in the wrong spot and changed so constantly I felt nauseous. They tried to be in positions to make the cars look like they were going quickly, while in fact they were probably going at about 10 MPH and being pulled. In fact, when you looked at the background, it was moving slowly. Universal, as I've said before, has never had good special effects, but for overhead shots of the cars, they were obviously fake.

2 Fast 2 Furious is so ridiculous, the culminating `thriller' scene is laughable. It's impossible to believe that a car can drive onto a boat and the bad guy is taken away. It's just so bad. Usually films have some ground in reality, while this one just lives in its own little world where the semi-bad guys always win and the bad guys always lose, no matter how impossible or stupid things become.

Romance in action movies is like going into a gun fight with a knife. It's unusable and it'll end up making it worse. Both main characters, Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) and Roman Pearce (Tyrese), fall for Monica (Eva Mendes) (I think, my full attention couldn't be at the screen), and the psuedo-romance that ensues is completely worthless, unnecessary, and drags out its overlong runtime. You know, some movies don't actually have love stories in them, but I guess they were trying to open up its target audience and diversify.

I have only seen part of the first movie, but I know two things from it: it's a good thing that Vin Diesel wasn't in this movie, and this follow-up was going to be pretty bad. What's so bad was how it tried to have great characters and a deep plot. The characterization of Pearce, who was new in this movie, was so shallow, but the part that we did find out about him, it's barely there. Also, it's supposed to seem like it could happen in real life. So nobody's going to notice when two cars go over 100 MPH on city streets? A bad guy just happens to hire two undercover people? Puh-leeze!

Movies like this need to have good one-liners, as all good action movies do. When a few were given out, they could have been humorous, but the wooden acting by everyone made them stupid. Innuendoes could have been flowing quickly, but, nope, bad acting spoiled it. Walker, who was good in Joy Ride, quickly ruins whatever name he had for himself, while Tyrese makes a point most people need to understand: rappers do not make good actors! And speaking of rappers, it brings me to one of the only good points of the movie.

The music, when it wasn't rap, it was kind of techno. Music like that always wins me over, and I really liked it. The one other good point of the movie was Mark Boone Junior, whom I really liked in Memento, had a small role in possible the best sequence of the movie, which wasn't very good. Boone needs to have larger roles! He's very good. Not something I can say for the entire movie, though.

My rating: 3/10

Rated PG-13 for street racing, violence, language and some sensuality.

Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) and Roman Pearce (Tyrese), together with the undercover agent Monica Fuentes (Eva Mendes), infiltrate in a gang trying to get evidences to put the bandit Carter Verone (Cole Hauser) in jail. This film is awful, the dialogs are ridiculous and the action scenes are badly shot. Very poor direction and acting, with a horrible screenplay. For a car chase, prefer `The Blues Brother'. For a road accident, see `Final Destination 2'. A pure waste of time (and money). My vote is three.

Title (Brazil): `+ Velozes + Furiosos' (`+ Fast + Furious')

Paul Walker is Back As Brian O' Connor From The First "Fast And The Furious" Film And This Time He is Joined By R&B Singer Tyrese Gibson As They Play Long Time Friends Have Team Up With The FBI Agents To Take Down a Maimi Crime Lord. This Sequel Stars Eva Mendes, Cole Hauser, James Remar, Michael Early, Devon Aoki And Ludacris. So Buckle Up Set Back, And Enjoy The Ride As Director John Singleton Directs This Entertainment Of a Movie.

1st watched 6/25/2006 - 3 out of 10(Dir-John Singleton): Street racing sequel that doesn't pack much of a punch. Not seeing the original yet probably shouldn't matter much in this case because it's pretty easy to understand where this is going right from the beginning. A revved-up street race is the first scene with the cars being showcased right away. The cars and the fast racing are the stars in this one and the actors are just there. If you're not into souped-up and prettied-up vehicles that can go fast, there's not much in this movie for you. Sure it has a plot revolving around the stars working for the FBI to pull in a drug lord in the city of Miami, but the filmmakers take every opportunity to add in a street race even when it doesn't make much sense. It bothers me that John Singleton was pulled in to direct this movie since he started his career with such promise but hopefully this brought his some cash to make better movies after this. The only interesting thing is the cool animation at the end of the movie during the credits that show how some of the races were originally conceived digitally before being put on film. So maybe that's what should have been made instead, oops I guess that's already being done by Pixar.

I remember in 2003, my senior year of high school, all the trip I had to deal with on how The Fast and the Furious was the most awesome movie ever made. Then I had to deal with something new and horrifying, dun dun dun, the sequel! Not just any old sequel that did not have Vin Diesel, which would've made the movie better, but we now have rappers who are posing as actors. Now there are some above average actors who are rappers as well, like Ludicrous who proved himself a decent performance in Crash, but Tyrese was such a lousy performance and was more of a punk than a lovable anti-hero. Ludicrous does an alright performance, he and Devon Aoki were the only likable characters. Paul Walker, I have nothing against this guy, but his character was just so dead and I had such trouble believing him. But what can I say? I guess he's the looks of the film, so the girls could have their fun.

Brian is still on the run for letting his friend, Dominic, go. His world hasn't changed though besides that he is not a cop, now he's back into the world of under ground street racing. But oh, no! He gets caught, but the FBI is offering him a chance at a clean slate if he and his juvenile friend to go under cover to get a criminal that they've been chasing. Of course, this criminal needs fast racers to do his evil deeds. With the help of the criminal's under cover hottie hottie hot hot girlfriend, the boys will figure out the evil deeds that are about to be done and will race their way to goodness.

I seriously felt like I was watching an extended episode of Pimp My Ride, there was just another pointless plot where I didn't really care about Ludicrous and Paul Walker's relationship, of course who would've ever suspected that they would've ended up best friends again?! Well, I am hoping that Tokoyo Drift will have a good plot, I'm really rooting for it, I'm giving these films a good chance, but so far, these films have just been major disappointments. For the teenage culture, I'm sure they'll have a blast watching this, it's just a gigantic rap video.

3/10

And now that I'm watching the whole series, and I got to see why. It was bad.

The plot is even thinner. The acting even worse. The dialogue, probably all ad-lib (and bad at that). The action, while bigger, not necessarily better. It's also more mainstream with a "proper villain", instead of a bunch of "good criminals".

And yet, I won't deny that I wasn't bored. Probably because I got distracted by the gazillion hot women and Eva Mendes, plus, I actually liked the villain.

So, whatever. This one doesn't fail to be good, because it doesn't try.

This B-grade movie is not cheesy. It is made out of cheese. Paul Walker's car is yellow for that reason. It's the proverbial forced sequel. The unwanted second child gone bad for lack of a purposeful upbringing. The entire affair is masterfully chintzy. A disposable plot, instant-noodle gangsters, and cheese-filled cheese-coated double-cheese dialog are absent only canned laughter. This movie was a weak excuse to show cars revving, thrashing and changing gears. Boringly beautiful people replicate acting by reciting scripted ham at each other's faces. But this is merely a distraction. Acting and story are necessary annoyances that loosely link extravagantly absurd vroom-vroom orgies. It's a porn flick, just with car scenes instead of sex scenes. People do not enjoy porn for the story and character development. Likewise, this film is most likely to be enjoyed if you're hot for some hormone-charged grunting and vigorous manhandling of glistening, throbbing instruments. The first movie pushed the limits of suspension of belief, just like many a good action flick. Many good action flicks step over, way over, the suspension-of-belief line. Right up front, this movie just marches up to your face and tells you to suspend incredulity. In the first five minutes, you know you will be up to your eyeballs in cheese for the next 90. Cole Hauser decided to break with the rest of the cast and do some acting. His misogynist silk-shirten drug boss is hackneyed but watchable amid wooden costars. The movie is worth watching if you like laughing at incompetent B-grade cheese or you're into cars and don't really care about things normally found in movies like acting and some level of respect for your intelligence.

The story line is basic and you have to have pretty good imagination to mess it up. Cause it aint geting easier then this. This movie is full with superstyled cars, hercules and chicks in minimal clothing, but hey i guess thats what your looking for if your a fifteen year old boy.

I just got through watching this movie. Well, to get to the point,2 Fast 2 Furious makes the Fast and the Furious look like a classic. I really loved the first one! But 2 fast just does not last...A really bad script. Also, very shy of some good character actors. I love the cars however. Also, I guess Paul Walker does not have to act. He's a good looking California-looking beach guy. Anyway, it is as though this movie was just thrown together. I don't even think Vin Diesel could have helped the film.

Dirk

With all sequels they are either better then the first one or they flop, and this one flopped. I don't know whether it was because Vin Diesel wasn't in it but I almost fell asleep. It was corny and overall just a bad script.

The acting in this movie was horrible! I realize that people went to see it for the cars and the chases but come on! They could have at least put an effort to acting. Even Ludacris put on a better performance than the main characters, now that should tell you something about the starting cast.

The scene in which the rat is under a can on some guys stomach eating a guy's stomach while he is screaming is disgusting. I don't like my heroes kicking a guy when he is down either. The last half was good. First film was far better.

I think this was the stereotypical sequel where they tried to make everything bigger and faster than the first one and the plot and story line suffered for it. I have never been a big Paul Walker fan and this movie cemented my objections to him as a really good actor and Tyrese was not much better. Is it necessary to have a "love story" in every movie? No, what was the point of that, attraction yes, anything other than, unnecessary. The movie was impressive with the cars but that is about it.

I have never commented on a movie via IMDb in my life, but I must give my thoughts on "2 Fast 2 Furious" because this probably the worst movie I have ever seen in a theatre. I am a huge car fan and loved "Driven", so that puts into perspective how bad this movie is. Granted, the opening race is entertaining, but after that, I should have gotten up to leave. Horrible acting, horrible dialogue, horrible story, and horrible cliche after cliche ruin this movie franchise. If you're not under 14 years old, check your brain at the door, because this movie will only appeal to those who don't know what "cliche" means.