Fast & Furious
Short description
Fast & Furious reunites fugitive ex-convict Dominic Toretto and FBI agent Brian O'Conner in Los Angeles after a crime pulls Dom back from hiding abroad. Their old hostility returns at once, but a shared adversary forces them into an uneasy truce. To defeat him, the two turn to the skills they know best: hijacking fuel tankers on the move, staging robberies, and driving at extreme speed, from nighttime Los Angeles to desert roads beyond the border.
Justin Lin directed the film, his third feature and the fourth entry in the series, following Annapolis and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. Chris Morgan wrote the screenplay, and Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, John Ortiz and Laz Alonso lead a cast of 63 credited performers, with Diesel also producing alongside Neal H. Moritz and Michael Fottrell.
Released in April 2009, the film cost about 85 million dollars and took roughly 363 million dollars worldwide, a strong return that restored the series' commercial standing after the previous installment. Audiences rate it modestly: 6.5 out of 10 on IMDb from some 334,000 votes and 6.7 out of 10 on TMDB from about 8,000 votes, while critics were harsher, giving it 4.7 out of 10 across 176 reviews.
What's left behind the scenes
- In the scene where the fuel truck is being robbed, Dominic rams one of the tanks, resulting in numerous damages visible on the car, particularly dents. However, in subsequent shots, the damages appear and disappear.
- Paul Walker drives a Nissan Skyline GT-R, which appeared in the second film.
- Interestingly, the film was originally intended to be titled Fast/Furious and the title was to be placed on the poster above the faces of Walker and Diesel, to make it clear that the first was fast, and the second was furious. But this plan was rejected. In any case, the film's title continues Hollywood's trend of avoiding numbers in sequel titles, as they are associated with low-quality imitations (which sequels with large numbers in the title often are).
- In one scene, where an FBI helicopter flies over the highway, a radio conversation can be heard (pilot to headquarters): "Base, this is Black Knight, I'm on Highway Five, five minutes from the Joker." An obvious nod to "The Dark Knight".
- Vin Diesel shot a 20-minute prequel film. It tells the story of characters such as Dom, Letty, and Han, in the time between "The Fast and the Furious" (2001) and "Fast & Furious" (2009).
- In the first film, Walker and Diesel were allowed to perform many of the stunts, as neither was considered a star at the time. But by the fourth "Fast & Furious" film, the actors had become well-known, the stunts were more complex, and the studio forbade Walker and Diesel from taking risks.
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