Fast and Fantasy
Even if you do put everything about the cars aside, which is hard to do as it's a 'car movie', the plot was stupid and unbelievable.
A 20-something guy spearheads a huge, big-dollar FBI investigation about , what, stereos being stolen off of trucks? Get real! The FBI wouldn't waste the money for such an operation and they wouldn't have some 25-year-old hot-shot running it on the ground.
The cars driving under the trucks was fun to watch but again, totally unrealistic all the way. We all know that one bump from that 45,000 pound truck into the 2800-pound Civic would be the end of the Honda as well as the driver.
All the cops would have to do is put a few well-armed swat-type cops in the trucks and the gang would be toast, fast and furiously.
The cars, well, that was just a rice-boy fantasy. The same as if they made a Mustang movie and every kid in town owned a 10 or 11-second 'Stang. Fun but a fraud all the way. We won't even go into the dumb mechanical errors they made, as they've been beat on endlessly here.
A silly movie but I saw it in a cheap matinee last summer (with my wife) and we enjoyed for what it was. A fantasy. Too bad so many took it seriously. Then again, I saw a tape of 'Bullit' a while back and sure wanted to go race my Mustang over some hills, but I managed to restrain myself when I remembered: It's only a movie!
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