Plot
Former cop, Brian O'Conner is finally arrested after letting his leader escape the law. To avoid the consequences, he must now work with an old college friend and help the police arrest a local drug exporter.
Release Year: 2003
Rating: 5.3/10 (70,288 voted)
Critic's Score: 38/100
Director:
John Singleton
Stars: Paul Walker, Tyrese Gibson, Cole Hauser
Storyline Former cop Brian O'Conner who teams up with his ex-con pal Roman Pearce to transport a shipment of 'dirty' money for shady Miami-based import-export dealer Carter Verone, while actually working with undercover agent Monica Fuentes to bring Verone down.
Writers: Gary Scott Thompson, Michael Brandt
Cast: Paul Walker
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Brian O'Conner
Tyrese Gibson
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Roman Pearce
(as Tyrese)
Eva Mendes
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Monica Fuentes
Cole Hauser
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Carter Verone
Ludacris
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Tej
(as Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges)
Thom Barry
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Agent Bilkins
James Remar
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Agent Markham
Devon Aoki
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Suki
Amaury Nolasco
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Orange Julius
Michael Ealy
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Slap Jack
Jin Auyeung
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Jimmy
Edward Finlay
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Agent Dunn
Mark Boone Junior
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Detective Whitworth
Mo Gallini
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Enrique
(as Matt Gallini)
Roberto 'Sanz' Sanchez
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Roberto
Filming Locations: Infinite Horizon Studios, Orlando, Florida, USA
Box Office Details
Budget: $76,000,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend: $50,472,480
(USA)
(8 June 2003)
(3408 Screens)
Gross: $236,350,661
(Worldwide)
(28 September 2003)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
USA:
Did You Know?
Trivia:
Most of the cars were heavily reinforced with roll cages for the bridge jump. However, the roll cage would have been all too obvious in the convertible S2000. So, the stunt crew rigged up a remote control version for the jump with a dummy in the driver's seat.
Goofs:
Continuity:
In the first race of the film, when the driver of the Supra uses Nos to get past Brian, he presses the right button. Later when he uses Nos to jump the bridge he presses the same button again.
Quotes:
[first lines]
Tej:
Yo, Jimmy, man, give me the status. Tell me we good.
User Review
Slow acting, slow action
Rating: 1/10
Having seen and enjoyed the first movie I had moderate hope for this one
but
it looks like yet another sequel that should never have been made. It's
impossible to know just how bad the acting was as dialog was contrived and
uncomfortable and probably wouldn't have sounded natural from even the
best
speakers. However, bad acting is bad acting and this was certainly about
as
bad as it comes. The one exception to this was ludacris who was
suprisingly
enjoyable while on screen but those times were too short and too far
between. All of this could easily have been forgiven though if the action
measured up. After all, this isn't hamlet right? Unfortunately "2 fast"
fell short here as well unless one likes seeing gear shifts, speed-o
needles, and mechanically impossible driving sequences. In the year of
the
matrix, the hulk, and later return of the king this one simply wont
measure
up to it's competition and in the lexicon of exciting driving movies (Fast
and the Furious, Blue Brothers, Gone in Sixty Seconds, etc.) it doesn't
even
deserve mention.
************** Spoilers *****************
What really irks me are the incredibly fake driving sequences. You don't
need to know much about cars to know that you can't drive at freeway
speeds
in reverse, most care are geared even lower in reverse than in first.
HEAVY
duty swerving as seen in the opening race scenes can't be done at anything
higher than 40 (try it sometime but don't sue me when you roll it or
fishtail right off the road). Star Wars type light speed effects don't
happen at 80 miles an hour (or even 120) regardless of what you're dumping
into your engine. In the final scene you see the speed-o creep past 90,
100, 110, 120 all to barely eek past a boat that wouldn't be capable of
speeds greater than 25 or so. The one and only interesting stunt is the
well done truck scene which is shown in it's entirety (yes, it's only
about
10 seconds) during the previews.
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