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(1 - 34) of 34 OFCS Rating: 12% Rotten Page   1   1.5/5 "If it's not fast and furious automotive action you're after, hoping instead for a cohesive character driven plot, then you're more likely to just get furious pretty damn fast."   Cut Print Review   Anders Wotzke "Everything here cuts to the chase, with personalities presented in a streamlined shorthand, and dramatic plausibility sacrificed to the need for speed... Fast & Furious, Fatuous & Forgotten."   Little White Lies   Anton Bitel 3/5 "Fast & Furious could be called Grand Theft Autopilot. Lin knows that his demographic doesn't care about truth. They want to see stuff smash up - and in as outlandish and outrageous a way possible."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron C "Hopefully for the next go-around, the series will plunge even further into the crash-em-ups and flip-e-doos that feel so organic to the attitude of the series, and less into that thing called "acting" I'm assuming the entire cast is trying to pull off."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf 1.5/5 "Enough is enough"   Filmcritic.com   Chris Barsanti C- "Chris Morgan (the screenwriter on "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" - 2006) is to blame for a script that runs more like a '70s Ford Pinto than the hopped up muscle cars burning rubber onscreen."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 3/10 "Fast & Furious is everything it sounds like: crass, unoriginal, and mostly tiresome."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2/4 "As brashly dumb as all the earlier pictures in the series, but this time there is also a more rampant mean-spirited streak running through it."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman D+ "There's not even much car-racing in it -- and why would anyone want to watch this movie if it doesn't have a lot of car-racing in it?"   Cinematical   Eric D. Snider 1/4 "It seems deftly appropriate that they would decide to remove the two 'the's from the title, the most replaceable word in the English language and compensate their absence with two of the most transparent ciphers to ever get above-title billing."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress C "Any suggestions for the title of fifth film? How about Fast & Furious: I'm Gonna Kick Your Ass? Or, no, I know: Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 2/4 "...pretty much contains the same high-octane hollow hedonism that has run through this routinely noisy, frenetic film franchise...this speeding-wheel spectacle has all the charm and intrigue of a shopping mall speed bump."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng D "Slick but idiotic action flick...doesn't have any real power, and no intelligence whatever, under its glossy hood."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2/4 "The end result, while it provides moments of kinetic entertainment, is too repetitive and uneven to be satisfying."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3/5 "The good news is that the movie's speedy and strong enough to deliver some well-tuned excitement, even if it's as bulky and brainlessly bright as the muscle cars it celebrates."   MSN Movies   James Rocchi 5/10 "General unoriginality contributes to 'The Fast and the Furious' series' own issue as a 'seen one, seen 'em all' series."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy 2/4 "Following in the skid marks of its predecessors, this fourth installment of auto erotica reunites the original cast for one more go around the track."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito 2.5/5 "%u03B7 %u03B5%u03B9%u03C3%u03B1%u03B3%u03C9%u03B3%u03B9%u03BA%u03AE %u03C3%u03BA%u03B7%u03BD%u03AE %u03BC%u03B5 %u03C4%u03B7%u03BD %u03B1%u03C1%u03C0%u03B1%u03B3%u03AE %u03C4%u03C9%u03BD %u03B2%u03C5%u03C4%u03AF%u03C9%u03BD %u03B5%u03AF%u03BD%u03B1%u03B9"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 3.0/4.0 "The sequel that SHOULD have followed The Fast and the Furious... sharp editing, cool stunts, and cars going way too fast still make for a fun time at the movies."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 2/5 "The plot is utterly incomprehensible, but the legions of street racing fans hopped up on NOS and Full Throttle energy drink aren't going to care."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr C+ "Writer Chris Morgan's already proven a predilection for action over logic and director Justin Lin, who's switched gears from Sundance darling to sequel hack, plays to his strengths."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "[D]amn if there ain't enough street racing in this here street racing movie..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2/4 "Lin makes the few set pieces sandwiched between the many flat, talky scenes count as much as they can."   TheMovieReport.com   Michael Dequina 1.5/4 "Fast & Furious represents a drastic drop in quality for the series. The reason is simple: it abandons the central premise of the franchise, which seems a betrayal of the very thing that made the other entries so enjoyable."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan C "The imagination of the almost-identical title matches the imagination of the almost-identical script."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow 1/4 "Removing the "the" from its predecessors' title not once but twice, Fast & Furious's abbreviated moniker harkens back to the series's 2001 original while simultaneously expressing a tough curtness that marks it as its own model."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 1.5/5 "Mt. Rushmore sports a more animated ensemble cast than on display here, each of who seems content to try and outglare the other."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 1/5 "Oh yeah, there are also lots and lots of car crashes--so many, in fact, that it feels at times like a big-screen version of an auto industry bailout plan."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 3/5 "What's amazing about this loud, lazy film (they couldn't even be bothered to give it a title) is that it's still entertaining"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline D "You know why movies like Fast and Furious are so easy to pick on? Because they take themselves so damn seriously."   Mania.com   Rob Vaux 2/10 "You don't need a road map to conclude this franchise has run out of gas and is going nowhere."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 4/10 "A superfluous, wandering plot ultimately keeps it from attaining the heights of a modestly diverting action thingy, dooming it instead to the pits of a modestly disappointing action thingy."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 2/5 "While it's good to see the original cast back, there isn't much of a story and even less action to keep you entertained."   BlackFilm.com   Wilson Morales  (1 - 34) of 34 OFCS Rating: 12% Rotten Page   1