| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
The result? Well, as expected, director John Singleton ("Boyz N the Hood") did not make a movie as good as "FF1." This is way better.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
A video game crossed with a buddy movie, a bad cop-good cop movie, a Miami druglord movie, a chase movie and a comedy. It doesn't have a brain in its head, but it's made with skill and style and, boy, is it fast and furious.
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| 70 |
Film Threat
Not that there isn't a story at work here; there indeed is, but only just enough to sustain the action.
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| 70 |
Dallas Observer
This is low-rent summer fun, exuberantly mounted, so leave your IQ in the glove compartment.
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| 63 |
New York Post
A lark for anyone who's willing to check their brains at the concession stand for 100 minutes.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
Regardless, it's sad that Singleton is taking Diesel's sloppy seconds.
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| 63 |
Premiere
Singleton’s film is, in fact, pretty enjoyable if you look at it as the B-movie it really ought to be, rather than the E-ticket major studio release it actually is.
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| 60 |
Variety
While this John Singleton-directed sequel provides a breezy enough joyride, it lacks the unassuming freshness and appealing neighborhood feel of the economy-priced original.
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| 60 |
LA Weekly
This shaggy-dog sequel is ultimately satisfying for the most low-tech of reasons: The competitive bond between the two central characters.
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| 60 |
Washington Post
Not about good storytelling, but it knows to turn up the volume, cut to dizzying closeups of driver's eyes as they negotiate dangerous bends and indulge its audience in the soul slaps, fanny grabs and head nods that govern this racing lifestyle.
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| 58 |
Entertainment Weekly
2F2F, under the cut-to-the-chase direction of John Singleton, strips the package known as the Mindless Summer Movie down to its barest components of wheels, skin, and a pulsing soundtrack.
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| 50 |
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
A movie with a confident sense of its own worthlessness, it speeds by in a flurry of candy-coloured cars, bare midriffs, screaming engines and a pulsing rap soundtrack.
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| 50 |
Chicago Tribune
Looks sleek and moves efficiently, but there's nothing too distinctive under the hood.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
Plays like a colorful but inert timekiller that you might tolerate while dozing off in front of the TV, but only because you are too sleepy to reach for the remote control.
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| 50 |
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Singleton abandons the underground racing subculture that gave the first film its allure, relying instead on lazy thriller plotting that's only a bag of donuts and a freeze-frame away from the average TV cop show.
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| 50 |
USA Today
At least 2 Fast is self-aware enough to know that it's trash, which is worth half a bonus point. Lack of pretension helps the viewer get over the fact that this is just another retread.
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| 50 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Not to say that it isn't fun, only to say that it is more about sensation than sense.
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| 42 |
Portland Oregonian
The best thing about 2 Fast 2 Furious is Tyrese (terrific in Singleton's "Baby Boy"), whose charisma, looks and charm supply the picture with much-needed spark. It's too bad he's stuck in this spotty video game.
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| 40 |
Chicago Reader
Without Diesel's brooding lunkhead presence it's more like "1/2 Fast 1/2 Furious."
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| 40 |
TV Guide
It's really all about the cars, kandy-kolored nitro-injected streamline babies with sweeter curves than a Playboy photo spread, more personality than Rome, Brian and Monica combined and enough juice to send a fleet of rockets to the farthest reaches of the known universe.
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| 40 |
Film Threat
Clint Morris
About as anachronistic and generic as an action sequel could be.
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| 38 |
Charlotte Observer
Without a plausible script, crisp dialogue or rounded characters, the majority of the picture will sag gracelessly.
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| 38 |
Baltimore Sun
So what do we have here? Lots of cars going very fast.
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| 38 |
New York Daily News
Lacks the charismatic presence of Vin Diesel, who has priced himself right out of the franchise. Without Diesel, there's not much gas, at least not from the nonvehicular elements.
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| 30 |
Los Angeles Times
My hand trembles slightly as I type these words, but the truth is that while watching 2 Fast 2 Furious, the follow-up to the pleasurably cheap-thrills sleeper "The Fast and the Furious," I realized just how much I miss Vin Diesel.
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| 30 |
Village Voice
Alex Pappademas
The script, and the actors' breezy performances, work inasmuch as they get us to the chase on time.
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| 30 |
Slate
Michael Agger
2 Fast 2 Furious is just 2 lame, 2 tame, and 2 much like a video game.
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| 25 |
Christian Science Monitor
The film has enough wild driving to satisfy any "French Connection" fan or "Bullitt" buff, but there's precious little for anyone else to enjoy. 2 foolish + 2 flashy = 4 get it!
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| 25 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Unlike original director Rob Cohen, Singleton has no gift for giddy action and his movie is a crashing bore.
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| 20 |
The New York Times
Unfortunately, all of these supremely expressive vehicles come equipped with drivers, principally a pair of crash-test dummies played by Paul Walker and Tyrese, whose low-gear dialogue makes the whine of engines sound like the highest poetry.
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| 20 |
Washington Post
It's a kind of "Miami Vice" with many more carz and numberz where all the adjectives used 2 go.
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| 20 |
Austin Chronicle
It’s all very nice to look at, sure, but pretty colors and molten intercoolers aside, 2 Fast 2 Furious is about as exciting as a Yugo in quicksand.
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| 12 |
ReelViews
This movie only takes a few minutes to crash and burn, but more than an hour and a half to realize it.
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| 10 |
Wall Street Journal
Certainly trashy, but, stripped of Mr. Diesel's services and directed by John Singleton, it's a no-go Yugo in muscle-car sheet metal.
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| 10 |
Salon.com
It's a terrible movie, stuck in plot idiocies and big, noisy set pieces like a tire mired in mud.
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