This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Directed by John SingletonStarring Paul Walker, Tyrese Gibson and Eva Mendes​ Plot Overview: Set after the events of 'The Fast and the Furious', we see Brian O'Connor(Paul Walker), who has relocated to Miami to start over, get pulled back in by the FBI to stop a drug lord and hopefully wipe his record.General:Overall: I'm fine with shutting my brain off to enjoy a movie. Even after doing that, this movie is bland, dull, contains no interesting action or moments, and a severely uninteresting story. I will say that the overall tone has been improved and it doesn't feel depressing and sour like the original but aside from that there were no major strengths to the film. Some acting was fine but non of the characters stood out or were particularly memorable. That actually pretty sums up the majority of this movie well. Nothing was depressingly awful but by the same token nothing was remarkably impressive or good. Nothing stood out in the movie and nothing, except for the tone, felt like a genuine improvement or something that would benefit the series. So, to sum up, it was average.The types of people who will enjoy this movie will be fans of cars and maybe some fans of its predecessor. Wouldn't Recommend.Detailed:Paul Walker was fine as Brian O'Connor. Tyrese Gibson was alright as Roman Pierce but this role is no different to any role he plays and it doesn't distinguish him from... anything. Eva Mendes was here and that pretty much sums up her acting ability. Cole Hauser was very weak as Carter Verone. The villain was very weak and didn't have any interesting qualities.The story was very weak and the ending was very unsatisfying.The cinematography was fine. The race scenes were really poorly done.Both the set and costume design were fine. They weren't anything special and I don't think they put much effort in but it's clear there was SOME effort put in it. I will say that this film improved the overall tone of the movie and the inclusion of Roman Pierce was critical change. Aside from that, the action was weak and the set pieces were really, really, really bland. I know this was still technically before this became a franchise famous for set pieces but what we got here was even worse than the original.The music was alright.Personally, I don't enjoy this movie and feel like it was a step back in the overall franchise.5/10Wouldn't Recommend

This is the cheesy, twisted wreckage of carbon fiber, bad acting, bikinis and awful acting that I imagine a lot of people think the first film is like.Brian O'Conner, GAP store mannequin Paul Walker, is now a former cop on the verge of arrest, but to avoid consequences he teams up with an old college friend, Tyrese Gibson, to help the police stop a drug dealer. This… somehow involves car racing.So, unlike the first film, the childishly named 2 Fast 2 Furious (whoever came up with that deserves a punch to the stomach) removes any sense of worth and just goes straight for the ham and cheese. Tyrese Gibson's "acting" is totally overboard, he has to be high on something during filming, he's acting like a human Jar Jar Binks. Next to him is Paul Walker, the least interesting element of the first film.The plot is… I don't even know. It bounces around between police business to shoved in car chases. At least The Fast and the Furious had a sense of community; a family unit that has racing at its heart, here, we get Walker and Gibson strutting into parties going "Aw man, check this out, bro!" at all the cars/car parts/girls in bikinis. Several times, and virtually shot-by-shot repeats! Utterly vapid screenplay. Plus, the sets and interior design work are horrendous! I know its set in Miami, but most of it is so gaudy with bright colours I swear I'm looking at some VIP section of McDonalds.But as we all know, surely the car action is the reason for being here? Well the film starts much like the first, only now we have the cardboard standee Walker pretending he's king of the hill, which is embarrassing. The girl drives the pink car, the boy drives the blue car, etc, making it feel like a game of Mario Kart (not to mention the CGI tinkered stunts). Later in the movie we have Tyrese doing his best to eat the scenery during car chases (and nobody here seems to realise that their racing opponents cannot hear their street trash talk during the race…) which definitely ruins any sense of excitement. The soundtrack is nowhere near as effective either.My brain was turned off so completely that I lost interest in what was happening. There was a freaky moment where the villain puts a rat in a bucket on a fat guy's stomach and proceeds to blowtorch the bucket though, that got my attention. Yeah, that was a thing.You want a good analogy of this film? This is the film equivalent of that moment when you are walking along the pavement, when suddenly a car flies past you and its driver shouts at you something like: "FFFWwweeeerhghgh Aggfhh!!" It is fast, you have no idea what possessed the person to do it, and it's instantly forgettable.

This movie did a good job as a continuation of the story established in "Fast and the Furious." It kept the action one would expect in the story while also trying to make the story fairly interesting. My biggest complaint of this film that it was very repetitive plot-wise of the first film. Brian had to go undercover for the authorities to investigate a criminal through drag racing. Though the plot is still general enough to be able to do multiple stories within said plot. This story takes place in Miami which led to a much different tone than the first one which took place in LA. Tyrese Gibson was a fresh and I feel improved contrast to the sort of best friend role that Vin Diesel had played in the previous film. Overall a good action film that isn't too short and isn't too long.

The second instalment of what will become an on going film franchise, 2 Fast 2 Furious ticks all the boxes of the action junkie fan. Paul Walker is back as Brian O'Conner and joined by Tyrese Gibson and Eva Mendes, who all get involved in an undercover job to bring down Cole Hauser's nefarious bad guy. There's lots of awesome cars, pecs and breasts, noise, carnage, violence and awful dialogue. The story is weak, but are we really looking for some brains over brawn here? We want car porn and we want it now! And so it delivers as per our polite request. John Singleton directs, David Arnold scores the music and Matthew F. Leonetti photographs the sumptuous Florida locations. 6/10