Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

The worst one is of course Tokyo Drift.I love this franchise and I'm a big fan of the late Paul Walker.And I know it introduces Rome and Tej and it's a setup for all the movies starting with number 4 with all the many added characters.But lets face it: 2 Fast is retarded. Without Vin Diesel and Jordana Brewster, Walker's O' Conner (why is it spelled that stupid way??) is not working.First of, why is Tej wearing that ridiculous afro wig in the opening scene? Secondly: it's one thing that the many, many black, Asian and hispanic characters speak ebonics-English, but why do Brian speak it? He is an intelligent former cop, not a black rapper or a member of a black gang. It's like the also black director of the movie told him to speak Ebonics to blend in with the rest of the mostly black, Asian and hispanic cast. The result: Brian comes off as a dumb loser and doesn't seem like the Bran we liked in the first movie.Thirdly: the many car chases are filled with horrible cgi.Four: the villain played by the homeless mans Matthew McConaughey: Cole Hauser is not only pathetic but the one scene where he is suppose to be menacing, comes off as pointless, because of bad directing and censorship due to the PG13 rating.Five: Yes I'm talking about the scene with the rat in the bucket in the nightclub. Hausers character clearly says the f-word in in the middle of a sentence the scene but it has been clumsily edited out so it comes of as weird and ruins the moment. The complete lack of emotion from Rome and especially Brian, watching a dirty cop being tortured, makes the scene boring.Six: Eva Mendes as an undercover cop working for the badguy is not working. Shes not attractive, she's barely in the movie, has almost no lines. And her part is pretty much the damsel in distress. She is so insignifigant, that she could easily not have been in the movie and no one would notice it. Seven: Brian and Rome both has a lot at stake here. Yet they both act like a couple of teenage boys that are too stupid to understand the trouble they're in. And that they can both face jail-time if they fail. Which makes this as movie without a single likable character in it.And this movie fails on every level. From the ebonics to the retarded characters to the bad screenplay to the inept directing and acting.Unless you're a 14 year old boy, that are happy with action-scenes and babes and nothing else going on in it, you will hate this movie.

This is the cheesy, twisted wreckage of carbon fiber, bad acting, bikinis and awful acting that I imagine a lot of people think the first film is like.Brian O'Conner, GAP store mannequin Paul Walker, is now a former cop on the verge of arrest, but to avoid consequences he teams up with an old college friend, Tyrese Gibson, to help the police stop a drug dealer. This… somehow involves car racing.So, unlike the first film, the childishly named 2 Fast 2 Furious (whoever came up with that deserves a punch to the stomach) removes any sense of worth and just goes straight for the ham and cheese. Tyrese Gibson's "acting" is totally overboard, he has to be high on something during filming, he's acting like a human Jar Jar Binks. Next to him is Paul Walker, the least interesting element of the first film.The plot is… I don't even know. It bounces around between police business to shoved in car chases. At least The Fast and the Furious had a sense of community; a family unit that has racing at its heart, here, we get Walker and Gibson strutting into parties going "Aw man, check this out, bro!" at all the cars/car parts/girls in bikinis. Several times, and virtually shot-by-shot repeats! Utterly vapid screenplay. Plus, the sets and interior design work are horrendous! I know its set in Miami, but most of it is so gaudy with bright colours I swear I'm looking at some VIP section of McDonalds.But as we all know, surely the car action is the reason for being here? Well the film starts much like the first, only now we have the cardboard standee Walker pretending he's king of the hill, which is embarrassing. The girl drives the pink car, the boy drives the blue car, etc, making it feel like a game of Mario Kart (not to mention the CGI tinkered stunts). Later in the movie we have Tyrese doing his best to eat the scenery during car chases (and nobody here seems to realise that their racing opponents cannot hear their street trash talk during the race…) which definitely ruins any sense of excitement. The soundtrack is nowhere near as effective either.My brain was turned off so completely that I lost interest in what was happening. There was a freaky moment where the villain puts a rat in a bucket on a fat guy's stomach and proceeds to blowtorch the bucket though, that got my attention. Yeah, that was a thing.You want a good analogy of this film? This is the film equivalent of that moment when you are walking along the pavement, when suddenly a car flies past you and its driver shouts at you something like: "FFFWwweeeerhghgh Aggfhh!!" It is fast, you have no idea what possessed the person to do it, and it's instantly forgettable.

Well, the second instalment of this seven (so far) movie series has us in Miami and our hero from the previous movie is no longer in the police force, having been kicked out (or simply ran away) after he let the bad guy disappear. However, while racing in Miami he is caught by the police (who have this wonderful little weapon that will disable cars by causing them to short-circuit) and blackmail into either infiltrating a drug cartel or go to gaol for all the crimes that he has committed. Oh, and if he does do this, and manages to survive as well, then he gets a clean slate (I'm not sure if that is possible but it does make a good movie, and also a realistic motivation).In a way it was a little better than the first movie, but honestly not by much. Sure, they actually gave a couple of women speaking roles as opposed to simply flaunting their bodies in bikinis, but there was plenty of that as well. They also had some drag races, but that is not surprising considering that this is the whole purpose of the film. However the drag races were few and far between and simply seemed to be an addition to fluff out what is basically another cop movie. In fact the whole idea of infiltrating illegal street racing was only a side issue, but then again the only connection between this film and the first were the characters (or two of them at least).In a way I am not really all that sure about this film. Okay, it was entertaining, but then again I have come to expect that of films – it certainly wasn't boring, or slow. However, the objectification of women sort of puts me off an awful lot, even if there are a couple of women playing speaking roles (there were some in the first film but if you blinked you would certainly miss it, and in a way with this film and the first the women with speaking roles are probably only there to balance out all of the machismo that seems to ooze out of this movie). While it is probably okay to simply sit down and waste some time watching, on the other hand it really isn't anything hugely fantastic.

2 Fast 2 Furious was a pretty good installment in this franchise. Seeing that Brian was an original member of the cast from the very beginning. Old Blue Eyes is what I called him. I now see that he was the face of the franchise. I will be watching all of the rest of the installments to bring me back up to present day before they bring out the 8th installment. This 8th installment should be interesting to watch and to see who will be in it. Right now I'm watching Tokyo Drift. Last night I watched the the original The Fast and The Furious, I also watched 2 Fast 2 Furious(this one). It was really good .. I love the introduction of Roman Mr. Pierce into the franchise, he brought some comedy relief to the line up. But now watching TD ... I can see where the indifference of the cast members may have come into play. Van Diesel wasn't in 2 but he came back in 3 this one TD and old blue eyes wasn't in TD ...hhhmmm where problems brewing way back when? Anyway let me finish watching this ... So I can do a review on this one. ENJOY