The Fast and the Furious

Starring: Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez, Paul Walker, Vin Diesel Director: Rob Cohen Original UK Premiere: 2001 Dvd Release: 11th February, 2002 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding Subtitled In: English, Hindi

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The Fast & the Furious is a 2001 action film starring Vin Diesel & Paul Walker & directed by Rob Cohen. Dominic Toretto is the leader of a street racing gang that is under suspicion of hijacking trucks for their cargo of expensive electronic equipment. Undercover cop Brian OConner attempts to find out who exactly is stealing the equipment by infiltrating the local racing community with the help of a local auto parts dealer, while falling for Dominics younger sister Mia. After OConner loses his car to Toretto in a race by racing for pink slips, a 1950s slang term for the registration documents for a car in the United States & then loses it again when they are confronted by Torettos rival Johnny Tran, OConner tries to gain the trust of Toretto by working on repairing & upgrading a Toyota Supra to hand over to him.

A guilty pleasure with excess horsepower, The Fast & the Furious efficiently combines time-honoured male fantasies into a vacuous plot of crystalline purity. Its trash, but its fun trash, in which a hotshot Los Angeles cop named Brian infiltrates a gang of street racers suspected of fencing stolen goods from hijacked trucks. The gang leader is Dom , ex-con & reigning king of the street racers, who lives for those 10 seconds of freedom when his high-performance rice rocket hurtles toward another quarter-mile victory. Racing is street theatre for a lawless youth subculture, & Dom is a star behind the wheel, charismatic, dangerous & protective toward his sister Mia , whos attracted to Brian as the newest member of Doms car-crazy team.

Director Rob Cohen treats this like Roman tragedy for MTV junkies, pushing every scene to adrenaline-pumping extremes; when his camera isnt caressing a spectrum of nitrous oxide-enhanced dream machines, its ogling countless slim n sexy race babes. The undercover-cop scenario cheaply borrows the split-loyalty theme perfected in Donnie Brasco; a rival Asian gang adds mystery & menace; & digital trickery is cleverly employed to explore the fuel-injected innards of the day-glo racecars. Its about as substantial as a perfume ad, but just as alluring, & for heavy-metal maniacs of any age, Diesels super-blown 69 Charger proves that Detroit muscle never goes out of style. , ,

On the DVD: Appropriately bulging with macho extra features, this disc is introduced with a stirring lack of irony by a Public Service Announcement exhorting viewers not to take proceedings too seriously! The meat of the many special features are found in deconstructions of several special effects sequences, with multiple camera-angle views & a breakdown of the process by which composite shots are achieved from separate plates. There are also eight deleted or extended scenes with optional directorial commentary. The main feature commentary is surprisingly in-depth & absorbing, as Rob Cohen talks about every aspect of his up-to-date Western with rice rockets. Other features include music videos , a standard 18-minute making-of featurette and, fascinatingly, a short five-minute peek at the editing process as the director & film editor strive to cut a violent scene & thereby guarantee that all-important PG-13 rating . And with a choice of explosive Dolby 5.1 or DTS you, & your long-suffering neighbours, will feel like youre right in the midst of the action. , Mark Walker

Michelle Rodriguez is an American born Puerto Rican - Dominican actress. At the age of 8, she moved to the Dominican Republic & at 11, she moved to Puerto Rico. She later moved to New Jersey. She was a struggling actress when she ran across an ad advertising an open casting call for a movie. That movie turned out to be Girlfight, where Michelle landed the starring role of Diana Guzman, a woman boxer. Girlfight was a low-budget, independent film. But Rodriguezs job was critically acclaimed & she began to become famous. She won various awards for her job in this movie, which became an unexpected hit among moviegoers. Subsequently, she has had notable characters in other hit movies. She dated Vin Diesel in 2001 & she even admitted, during an interview at the Howard Stern show, to having an intimate relationship with him. Posters Of Girlfight

Editors Choice: Girlfight, Blue Crush, Resident Evil, The Fast And The Furious, View DVDology

Mark Vincent, better known by his stage name of Vin Diesel, is an American actor. Diesel is multi-racial, a fact upon which he based his well-recieved 1994 short film Multi-Facial, about a struggling actor who is rejected for part after part because he doesnt look black/white/Jewish enough. Hes quoted as saying his mother is descended from the Sinclairs of Scotland. Also, he has a dog, a mastiff. Diesel, who was cast in 1998 s Saving Private Ryan on the strength of Multi-Facial, broke through to mainstream audiences with the 2001 film The Fast & the Furious & the 2002 film xXx. In 2004 he reprised his role as Pitch Black s Riddick in The Chronicles of Riddick & will thereafter take on the titular role in Hannibal, as the Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps by elephant to attack Rome. Diesel has his own film production company, One Race Productions, with long time producing partner George Zakk. In 2002, he founded Tigon Studios, a video game production company; it is named after the tigon, the hybrid offspring of a male tiger & a female lion. Posters Of Vin Diesel

Editors Choice: The Chronicles Of Riddick, Xxx, Pitch Black, The Pacifier, The Fast And The Furious, A Man Apart, The Fast And The Furious Turbo Edition, Boiler Room, View DVDology

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