Film
Fast & Furious
- Director
- Justin Lin
- Certificate
- 12A
- Running Time
- 107 mins
Back in 2009, hit-starved Vin Diesel returned for the third sequel to his breakthrough hit. His problem as a star is that he was much better in earlier movies where he played the edgy outsider figure. The story here is that Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), girlfriend of criminal driver Dominic Toretto (Diesel), is murdered by a Los Angeles drugs gang while working undercover for FBI agent Brian O’Conner (bland Paul Walker). So the hood and the fed both want to get in with ‘the Braga Mob’, which is run by a boss who’s never been seen in public, for revenge – and have to compete in a race to land a coveted spot on the druglord’s team of drivers.
The action scenes aren’t up to scratch, with weirdly unexciting ideas like a chase through a dark tunnel and a race through LA traffic guided by satnav, and no amount of close-ups of scantily-clad female bottoms can disguise the seething, if giggly homoeroticism that crackles whenever the male leads are agonising over the way they feel about each other (and their cars).
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