Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Though I admit the title of the film is slightly dumb, I can't really fault much else going on here.

| Original Score: B | May 6, 2011

Fast & Furious is a piece of junk, but at least it is an entertaining and endearing piece of junk. For a franchise I actively dislike, this is the best of the bunch.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Aug 14, 2009

There are only a couple of things to be said about this movie: the cars are fast, the racing is faster and none of it makes the slightest bit of sense.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2009

"Ride or die, remember?" Er, not really, no. More like "Yawn and forget", as Nabokov once recommended. Only 13-year-old boys and Jeremy Clarkson could possibly enjoy this.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 17, 2009

Both screenplay and plotting are basic but the action scenes are a wonder to behold if you can forget the number of civilians who would have been killed as the chases progress through various cities.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 17, 2009

Heck, I'd go so far as to say he's actually made the best film in the gosh darn franchise, this fourth chapter arguably the most entertaining start to finish of them all.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 15, 2009

Everything here cuts to the chase, with personalities presented in a streamlined shorthand, and dramatic plausibility sacrificed to the need for speed... Fast & Furious, Fatuous & Forgotten.

Full Review | Apr 10, 2009

If it were a DVD, you'd Fast & Forward to the chases, but not Forgive & Forget the crushing disappointment. In cinemas, you have to endure exposition and sob-you-were-my-best-friend scenes. It's clearly time for Fast & Furious Vs. The Transporter...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 9, 2009

Turn off your mind, though, and there's some fun to be had from some of the better whizz-bang sequences.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Apr 9, 2009

This is dumb, loud and fast, with a questionable attitude towards road safety and a supporting cast apparently recruited for their tattoos rather than their acting ability.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 9, 2009

Run a mile in any direction from Fast and Furious.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 9, 2009

The dire plot is, of course, mere tarmac to the chases - so why are these so poorly choreographed? Fast & Furious? Ha. More like Slow & Sleep-inducing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 9, 2009

A return to gloriously idiotic form for the street racing series.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 9, 2009

The stars look bored out of their minds when the fourth episode of the franchise stalls between racing sequences, which is all too often in a flick where 106 minutes speed by in what feels like at least four hours.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 3, 2009

This franchise is out of gas.

| Original Score: D+ | Apr 3, 2009

Fast & Furious spends a lot of time advertising how exciting it is, without actually being exciting.

Full Review | Apr 3, 2009

Aside from the opening sequence, there's nothing imaginative about it, and the actual filming is routine shaky-quick-cut stuff.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 3, 2009

By far the weakest entry of the four.

Full Review | Apr 3, 2009

Boiled down to its essentials, F&F is four pretty swell auto-race video games encased in the bloated carcass of a script, by Chris Morgan, that must have been researched in the Archive of Movie Cliches.

| Apr 3, 2009