Fast & Furious: Review By Solar XI

Rob Cohen opened a new world of street racing for those with cars, want cars, drivers, racers and general movie goers. Street racing had reached an all new fame when The Fast and the Furious hit theaters. The major film starred Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster and set in the streets of Los Angeles.

Set after the events of 2 Fast 2 Furious and Tokyo Drift, the film opens up with a jacking sequence with Letty and Dom (Diesel and Rodriguez) with their crew who consists of Han (Sung Kang reprising his role Tokyo Drift) and Rico and Tego (Don Omar and Tego Calderon). After getting the oil they were stealing, Han tells Dom that a garage they had was raided by police. Dom then tells Letty that they must seperate because the "trail" was getting to hot. Three years later while in Panama City, Dom gets a phone call from his sister Mia (Brewster) that Letty was murdered.

Brian O'Connor, now an FBI Agent is on a case about a drug trafficker named Arturo Braga. With Dominic returning to Los Angeles to investigate Letty's death, he is found by Brian and they begin a new alliance in which Arturo Braga is involved with Letty's death.

The film is generally good. I thought this was probably the most emotional one being that we knew these characters already. Part of the problem is the gabs between the stories. In John Singleton's 2 Fast 2 Furious the film concludes with Brian and his friend Roman planning to open a garage down in Miami, my question is how and when did he become an FBI Agent. What happened to Brian's life down in Miami?

The direction is pretty much similar to Tokyo Drift with the exception of settings. Justin Lin's direction is basically the same thing Singleton and Cohen provided.

I liked the film but hopefully the next film could somehow lead to Dominic ending up in Tokyo, show how Brian became an FBI Agent or at least continue from the end of this film. The question is do I really or do you really want to see another Fast/Furious film without Michelle Rodriguez?

I do personally recommend this film to anyone who enjoyed the first one.