Fast and Furious Review

Vin Diesel returns to the big screen in the new film ‘Fast and Furious’.

Talk to Vin Diesel and he’ll insist that ‘Fast and Furious’ this time around is a re-generation of the franchise previously known as ‘The Fast and the Furious’.

Call it what you will.

All you have to see is the first clip to see what’s in store.

He plays a hustler stealing a load of oil from an unsuspecting trucker on a deserted desert highway.

It’s the best scene in the movie, but it’s downhill after that.
Jordana Brewster returns as Diesel’s sister from the original and the former girlfriend of FBI agent and skilled driver Paul walker, a reluctant ally of Diesel’s.

But you have to have seen the earlier movies that morning to know what they’re talking about.

Then the clichés really kick in.

There’s the drug smuggler’s right hand man, conducting business while working on his golf swing.

The winner is to be chosen as a driver to smuggle narcotics across the border into the U.S.

And then, guess what happens? Another race.

The only thing that’s new this time around is the addition of gps technology, but certainly not enough to save this movie from the mundane.
After it’s riveting opening sequence, ‘Fast and Furious’ is filled with uninteresting performances and a routine script unworthy of even the most ordinary t-v cop show teleplay.

Even the cars looked bored.

Is there a better use of gasoline?