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90Shrewdly conceived, confidently executed and outrageously entertaining.
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80Loud, trashy, implausible and exciting, The Fast and the Furious may not have much of a brain, but it's definitely got a pulse.
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80The best cheap thrill to come out of Hollywood in ages -- it's a shot of tonic for the current blockbuster bloat.
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80(You) might be charmed by the film's blend of kineticism, car-culture rituals, and hilariously flat-footed dialogue.
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80The result is an intensely involving entertainment that can be enjoyed by viewers who scarcely know how their own cars work.
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80A gritty and gratifying cheap thrill, Rob Cohen's high-octane hot-car meller is a true rarity these days, a really good exploitationer, the sort of thing that would rule at drive-ins if they still existed.
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Along with the cast's charm, they provide enough fuel for a fun one (movie).
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75Not a great movie, but it delivers what it promises to deliver, and knows that a chase scene is supposed to be about something more than special effects.
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75Something special about it. It's a formula movie, to be sure, but it's Formula One.
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75Turbo-charged wallbanger with the IQ of a tire iron. But it jumps off the screen with the mindless panache of a good bad movie.
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70The movie may be intellectually sophomoric, dramatically adolescent and morally vacuous, but it's good fun while it lasts.
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67Pure, unadulterated teen exploitation filmmaking at its best -- a heady, rocketing blast of fast cars, loud hip-hop, and a script so cheesy it might as well have “Made in Wisconsin” stamped on it.
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67With its machine-gun editing, extremely loud (mostly rap) soundtrack, occasional music-video interlude and overall in-your-face sensibility, it's a movie that's determined to chase anyone past age 30 or so right out of theater.
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63There's some undeniable appeal to watching a well-oiled, built-for-speed machine operating with its pedal to the metal -- even if it's destined to wind up in flames before the finish line.
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63A massive compendium of youth-movie/pedal-to-the-metal cliches. But man, is it fast!
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63High-grade B flick about illegal street racing among gangs in Los Angeles applies the brakes only for the bare minimum of plot injection.
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60Strictly where the boys are: posing, posturing, and talking engine envy.
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60Fearless as these racers are, it's hard to muster enthusiasm for a movie that plays chicken and then swerves about a mile before the collision.
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While few of the paper-thin characters register long enough to make much of an impression, Diesel carries the movie.
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50Better than any automobile flick put out by Hollywood in a while and, thanks to some genuinely exciting moments, it is easily the most entertaining so far of this summer's big, brainless action movies.
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50Works hard to be exciting, but the movie scarcely lives up to its title. It could have used a bit of a fuel injection itself.
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50This is not a movie about actors. It's a movie about racing, chasing, chicks and adrenaline -- just what many theatergoers are dying for in a summer dominated by a sweet ogre and a dumbed-down historical tragedy.
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40This testosterone-driven, car-crime picture evokes the testosterone-driven, surf-crime picture "Point Break."
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40Neither fast nor furious, this film belongs in the section of the supermarket where blah-white labels and big block lettering denote brandless cigarettes, vodka, crushed pineapple and, in this case, action picture.
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38If it worked, The Fast and the Furious would put viewers in the same position as the policeman protagonist, attracted to speed but appalled by crime. Instead it sentences you to an hour and a half in a high-decibel limbo.
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30Rob Cohen, who last directed "The Skulls" --ouch! -- can consider this one another career-killing skid mark.
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25Drowns in its own noxious fumes. Who knew being bad could be so dull?
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25Unless you live and breathe exhaust fumes, there isn't much to sustain a viewer through a lame story and dialogue so pathetic.
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20The Fast and the Furious is "Rebel Without a Cause" without a cause. The young and the restless with gas fumes. The quick and the dead with skid marks.
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