I'm sorry, Guatum, no offense, but some people seem to be easily amused. If I were completely opposed to rice, I wouldn't have seen it at all. I was willing to set that aside in hopes of exciting driving scenes. They never came.
For example, in the previews they showed that exciting scene where the ricer crossed over under the truck. Guess what, they already did that neat stunt in the beginning of the movie. It was so unoriginal a movie that they duplicated stunts within the same movie.
It was a really bad movie slapped together in an attempt to cash in on the import craze.
Let's see. The big races:
The 4 car race where Brian loses his car. The flip up computer screens were hilarious, but the racing itself was dull.
The race with the Ferrari. Ooo, the guy in the Ferrari comments about what Brian can afford. Little did he know that the car Brian had that was blown up on that first race night was more expensive than the Ferrari but was a lot slower.
The race between Dom's chick and that guy wanting to race for sex. Time filler at best.
The race between Jesse and the murderous villain with 100k under the hood for a "10 second" car. The classic moron line of the movie occurred when Jesse hits his turbo boost/nitrous button - The villain proclaims that Jesse hit it too soon and then hits his to win.
The final race between Dom and Brian. Classic muscle vs. ricer. This was the best race, I think, which is good since it was the climax. It wasn't the best because we were concerned about who would win, but whether or not Dom would pull a
Vanishing Point. Previews pretty much nixed the suspense, though, since we know he flipped the car so couldn't be hit by the train.
Wouldn't it have been better if everything ended up in a showdown between Dom and the villain? Dom in the Charger and the villain in his 100k ricer? Yes, predictable, but sometimes attempts to be unpredictable just ruin the movie.
Like I've said before in the other thread. If you replaced every ricer with a Mustang and eliminated all of the technical flaws, it would still be a really, really bad movie.
I am taking names of people who actually liked this movie so that I can be sure not to heed any of their movie recommendations.
