Too many fans seem to be blown away

Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

I started watching Fastlane this summer (almost 10 years after it was on air), when I found it on Netflix. I watched the entire series and fell in love with it - granted, one or two episodes don't tickle my fancy, but considering there's only one season, it's not like I wasn't expecting it.There are only a few downsides to the show - the cliffhanger it ends on, the DVD has crappy music (the aired versions are much better, I watched a couple), the criminals are almost always druglords or gangsters, but that's all I can think of off the top of my head.The upsides - the guest stars and cameos are great 99% of the time, the cars/bikes in the Candy Store are nice (not to mention expensive, like Ferraris and Ducatis), the action is nice for a TV show, etc., etc. the list goes on.Personally, I think Fastlane is one of the best TV shows on the planet - more specifically, one of the best cop shows.I highly recommend it for anyone who loves cars, cop shows, the Fast and Furious films, Miami Vice or just someone looking to kill an hour.

I watched this show when it first aired on Sky One..It was a show about two cops who go undercover and stop the bad guys...I caught a few episodes and was mesmerised simply because..well, I was young and gullible...I recently watched the first twenty minutes and I have to say, this is absolutely awful. The writing is bad..I mean how many shows have we seen with the death of a fellow partner...or the terrible dialogue....The cinematography is far too bright...the costumes are absolutely ridiculous..the senior police bosses dress more like Pimps and the acting...well, let's just say it's not displayed very well...I guess the producers tried to catch onto the 'Miami Vice' vibe..but even 'Miami Vice' grew up with the changing times...

Network: Fox; Genre: Action; Content Rating: TV-14 (for language, violence, nudity, and sexual content); Perspective: Contemporary (star range: 1 - 4);Season Reviewed: Complete Series (1 season)After taking a bat to an already 70s TV series with the original "Charlie's Angel's" movie, director McG puts on his creator/producer hat on to, along with John McNamera, bring that chainsaw music video style to the small screen. "Fastlane" is "Miami Vice" for the MTV generation. Bill Bellamy ("Getting Personal") and Peter Facinelli are our mis-matched partners, Van and Deaqon. Over the course of the series the two trade lame quips and movie references in place of real dialog. Nobody apparently told McG that the hip-hop crowd this show so transparently panders to might not get all the Steve McQueen references. Playing their boss, and the boss we all wish we had, is Tiffani Thiessen (ditching the Amber-). Thiessen jumps right in the middle of this insanity, stripping down to her party clothes in front of the boys and going deep undercover as Jamie Prestley's girlfriend in the show's marquee moments. I will say this, "Fastlane" is exactly what it intends to be. It does everything with such full-bore gusto that those into this type of stuff should be in hog heaven. The question really is, are you into it? You'll see cars, you'll see motorcycles, you'll see scantly clad women, you'll see bullet-time, you'll see a hyper-active use of split-screen and you'll see entire scenes bathed in a single florescent color like Cartoon Yellow or, my favorite, "Silk Stalkings" Blue – all designed to catch the eye for those passing by with their remotes. While the show is stock full of hot femme fetal blonds (it is a running gag that Van falls for all of them), it saves up most of its energy to lust over the cars. What "Fastlane" really wants to be is hot-rod street racer wet dream. The camera zooms in and drools over every shiny curve of that week's featured car or motorcycle as warranted by the "plot". Fortunately, for McG, TV is a medium that we don't have to drive to a theater, pay for, or even pay close attention to for the show to fall ass-backwards into a purpose. For "Fastlane" that purpose would be as a slack-jawed, eyes-glazed over, drool-on-the-chin guilty pleasure. Little more. It is cinematic, only in shallow appearance. An uninspired visceral novelty desperately straining to be hip and cool that gets old very quickly.This is the type of show that has become critic-proof because critics hate it like clockwork. It's not that I don't like this type of show; but there is an art to constructing a guilty pleasure, a fine balance, and this one just doesn't work. I found it all boring to the point of reaching for the remote and even the promise of more skin, flying bullets and mindless hookups wasn't enough to ever keep me riveted for the full hour. * ½ / 4

This is without a doubt, one of the most pointless and horribly acted shows I have ever seen. Thank God it got canceled after only one season. The plot is entirely unoriginal: two hotshot great-looking cops are partnered up to bring down LA's crime and drug empires while wooing beautiful models and driving souped-up cars. The problem with this show is that it offers nothing new, not a thing. The acting is fair, but on many occasions it feels forced or overacted. And just when I thought that I would never have to even think about Fastlane coming on the air again, lame-ass video game channel G4 buys the rights and starts playing it every f***ing night of the week! I mean, it's bad enough that the channel encourages overweight losers to join the Army or the Navy (they have commercials and promos for it every other minute), now they want them to believe that they can indeed be as cool as Deaquon and what's-his-face. G4: go back to your roots! Drop the army promos and Fastlane and bring back more Cinematech and video game reviews! And while your at it, drop Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb (hosts of a lackluster video game show) off of a 50-story building. Back to the show, it sucks!