Big engines, fast women – bad movie. That just about sums up my
thoughts on the new movie
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2 Fast 2 Furious,
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currently playing at Premiere Cinemas.
Big engines, fast women – bad movie. That just about sums up my thoughts on the new movie “2 Fast 2 Furious,” currently playing at Premiere Cinemas.
Don’t get me wrong, I love a good car chase scene like the one near the end of the “Blues Brothers,” or the chase scene in the “French Connection,” Last but certainly not least was the classic 10-minute long chase scene in the movie “Bullitt” which cemented the Ford Mustang’s popularity with car lovers.
One of the things these three movies had in common was a good script and the chase scenes were came at a pivotal point in each movie, which only served to heighten the tension in the scenes. There is none of that in “2 Fast 2 Furious” has none of that.
It has a few interesting driving scenes but that is about it.
To try to fill in the lull between racing scenes, director John Singleton (“Boyz in the Hood,” “Poetic Justice” and “Shaft”) fills the screen with a bevy of bikini or otherwise scantily clad beauties.
While I appreciate the sight of both a well made car and a beautiful woman, I personally need a little more out of my movies.
I’m not trying to insult anyone who did enjoy this movie, and there has to be a quite few of you out there for this film to have had a $50.4 million opening weekend at the box office.
I’m a big believer in creating a wide variety of movies from thrillers to westerns and comedies to dramas. Because it keeps the movie industry from growing too stale.
But whatever movie the studios make need to be the best they have to offer, not just some barely warmed over plot.
The almost non existent plot for “2 Fast” centers not on Vin Diesel, the driving force in the first movie: “The Fast and the Furious.”
Instead it focuses on actor Paul Walker (“The Fast and the Furious,” “She’s all That” and “Pleasantville”) who reprises his role as former Los Angeles cop Brian O’Conner.
the story tracks how O’Conner infiltrates Verone’s lair along the usual script lines, with the help of the usual action-movie suspects.
Riding shotgun with O’Conner is the righteously angry yet lionhearted former convict Roman “Rom” Pearce (singer Tyrese) And just like every other buddy movie, the two of them start out hating each others guts but eventually become an inseparable team.
Close behind them are the hostile and inept agents, led by veteran actor James Remar.
