If the smell of exhaust nauseates you and the sight of skinny grown boys going all the way with macho machines makes you want to take up cycling, stand well back.Īs a contender in the hot rod section, NFS has nothing new to offer, except possibly this insight: "You learn a lot about a person after you've been hit by a truck. NFS has silly girl antics and nowhere to put them. The F&Fs had better plots and a sprinkling of humour. Tobey has no character to speak of, other than strong and silent - even the strong's a bit iffy. The baddie wears black in case you had forgotten and the Limey chick is blonde and cheerful. The film is an elongated car chase, with fabricated excitement dropped in here and there. Tobey challenges him to a race which has fatal consequences and a stretch in jail, followed by a rematch in California which means driving a multi-million dollar motor across country with a dippy English bird (Imogen Poots) as passenger and bounty hunters on his tail. He comes back with Tobey's girl on his arm, to flaunt his ultimate coolness. Tobey Marshall (Paul), the kid from Mt Kisco, NY, a blue collar hick town, whose father has recently died, leaving him in charge of the family's garage where a team of dedicated young mechanics soup up cars for illegal street racing, is determined to save the business from bankruptcy.ĭino (Dominic Cooper) used to live here but has gone on to better things, driving in the Indy circuit. What's the low? Death by dangerous driving? No - losing the race.Īaron Paul comes straight out of Breaking Bad with a clutch of Best Supporting Emmy awards.
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The essence of FAST & FURIOUS has always been. Once youve seen the trailer for Need For Speed youve no need to bother watching the movie itself, because the promo contains the films best automobile. It's cars, not sex, that lubricate the libido. We will also have a look at non-car Brands that appear in the movie. The Fast And The Furious franchise has become a genre.