2 FAST 2 FURIOUS

Critics: 36%
Audience: 59%

While I wish I could write about nothing except Fast and Furious movies, we jump right in to the second film in the series because the first was actually too good.

Allow me to get my opinion straight: this is not a good movie.  It is nothing but horrible dialogue, terrible CGI car races where everything blurs into looking like they're jumping to lightspeed in Star Wars, and borderline offensive, over-stereotyped characters throughout.  It's also probably not a great sign that it's 'theme song' is Act a Fool.


However, you get to watch Paul Walker over-act for 100 minutes.  Add Tyrese Ludacris, and a host of other actors that you recognize from 'that that thing,' and Eva Mendes, and it's a fairly entertaining movie.  More importantly, the Fast and Furious series is as American as it gets, and every American should be celebrating every frame of it.

Here's a simple litmus test: watch the following clip, starting at 1:45.  If watching Paul Walker and Tyrese be this bad at acting doesn't entertain you, you're in for a long movie.

One other thing stands out while watching a street-race movie: the cars are really bad.  The first movie at least had Vin Diesel driving some different cars, including an awesome 1970 Dodge Charger.  2 Fast has... a lot of Mitsubishis?  Even the lead actor can't pretend like they're cool:

It's one of the two worst movies in the series, but it's probably a necessary evil in order to appreciate the wonderfulness of Paul, Tyrese, and Luda in Fast's 4-7.  And if you happen to really enjoy horrible dialogue and acting by America's early 2000's poster boy, all the better.