2 Fast 2 Furious

San Francisco Chronicle C.W. Nevius

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.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

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.

Film Threat Michael Dequina

Not that there isn't a story at work here; there indeed is, but only just enough to sustain the action.

Dallas Observer Bill Gallo

This is low-rent summer fun, exuberantly mounted, so leave your IQ in the glove compartment.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

A lark for anyone who's willing to check their brains at the concession stand for 100 minutes.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

Regardless, it's sad that Singleton is taking Diesel's sloppy seconds.

Premiere Glenn Kenny

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.

Variety Todd McCarthy

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.

LA Weekly David Chute

This shaggy-dog sequel is ultimately satisfying for the most low-tech of reasons: The competitive bond between the two central characters.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

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.

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

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.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

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.

Chicago Tribune Mark Caro

Looks sleek and moves efficiently, but there's nothing too distinctive under the hood.

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

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.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

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.

USA Today Mike Clark

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.

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

Not to say that it isn't fun, only to say that it is more about sensation than sense.

Portland Oregonian Kim Morgan

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.

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

Without Diesel's brooding lunkhead presence it's more like "1/2 Fast 1/2 Furious."

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

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.

Film Threat Clint Morris

About as anachronistic and generic as an action sequel could be.

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

Without a plausible script, crisp dialogue or rounded characters, the majority of the picture will sag gracelessly.

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

So what do we have here? Lots of cars going very fast.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

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.

Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis

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.

Village Voice Alex Pappademas

The script, and the actors' breezy performances, work inasmuch as they get us to the chase on time.

Slate Michael Agger

2 Fast 2 Furious is just 2 lame, 2 tame, and 2 much like a video game.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

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!

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

Unlike original director Rob Cohen, Singleton has no gift for giddy action and his movie is a crashing bore.

The New York Times Dana Stevens

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.

Washington Post Stephen Hunter

It's a kind of "Miami Vice" with many more carz and numberz where all the adjectives used 2 go.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

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.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

This movie only takes a few minutes to crash and burn, but more than an hour and a half to realize it.

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

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.

Salon.com Charles Taylor

It's a terrible movie, stuck in plot idiocies and big, noisy set pieces like a tire mired in mud.