swilliky The fourth installment of the series brings back the original cast as they take on a Mexican dealer. Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) is reintroduced down in the Dominican Republic stealing oil with Lettie (Michelle Rodriguez) and Han (Sung Kang) in a spectacular explosive scene. Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) has rejoined the FBI, solving street-racing crimes and smuggling. When Letty winds up murdered, Dom returns to Los Angeles and seeks revenge. Dom beats up mechanics and O'Conner tracks his mayhem. When Ramon Campos (John Ortiz) hosts a race to interview new drivers to work for the mysterious dealer Arturo Braga, both Brian and Dom enter. Dom beats Brian to earn the job working for Braga. This chase looks great as the special effects are updated. Gisele (Gal Gadot) also works for Braga and finds Dom attractive. Brian also sparks anew his relationship with Mia (Jordana Brewster) though she is still bitter about him lying to her in the original film.Briand has another one of Campos's racers arrested so that he can join the other drivers transporting cargo. They are shipped across the border, given coordinates, and told to follow Fenix (Laz Alonso). They speed down into a tunnel beneath the Mexico-American border. Dom plays his hand, reveals he is on this mission for revenge and blows up all the race cars. Dom and Brian escape with Campos's supply, but then Dom becomes angry when he finds out Letty was working undercover for Brian, who is only able to stop Dom from beating him up when he reveals that she was doing it to gain Dom's freedom.Check out more of this review and others at swilliky.com

Evan Wessman (CinematicInceptions) There is nothing terribly remarkable about this movie. Basically, it's the kind of movie that would get pumped out of a formula for how to make a lot of money with a movie. I like the "New model. Original parts" tagline, but this really isn't that true. The only "original parts" are Dom, Brian, Mia, and sort of Letty. Pretty much every aspect is standard in quality, but tries to seem like it's really good. It's as if the writers think that by giving their characters a code and a few emotional moments, it means that the characters are deep, and that the actors give good performances just because they portray multiple emotions. The same goes for the action scenes, which are packed with crashes and explosions but really aren't that exciting. They held my attention, but not for that long. Besides, nearly every one of them involved cars and the action scenes were not shot well enough for me to actually comprehend what was happening in them. This was disappointing, because the FAF movies are never that strong in story, but can be entertaining as long as they have good action. Story is typically what drives a movie, but a bad story can be partially saved by some impressive action as with movies like Kingsman, the second Hobbit movie, or Mission Impossible 3. All of the action was standard and monotonous. Cars chase each other, get beat up, and the bad guys cars crash sooner or later, leaving Brian and Dom unscathed. Not much more really happens. In the filmmakers defense, they had a tough level of action to deal with here. The scale was larger than street fights, but nothing as huge-scale as the subsequent movies.The one aspect of the story that I found interesting was Brian trying to repair his relationship with Dom and Mia. He tries so many times to prove to them that he really is their friend, which is a difficult thing to do given the ending of the first movie. It would have been better if this had required Brian to change himself. Otherwise, the story was just a bunch of events strung together. It wasn't dramatically satisfying or anything like that. I had really hoped that Letty's death would lend this movie a more character-based story, but unfortunately her death turned out to just be a plot point.So, needless to say, my opinion of this fourth installment is not high. I suppose it's fine if you decide to watch it. It's no great work of cinema and probably won't even be your favorite of the series, but it might be entertaining. I would just recommend that you not bother yourself with figuring out the plot, because you won't enjoy the movie any better if you understand it. On a final note, it is somewhat impressive that this sequel was a financial success because of how pivotal its success was to the overall success of the series. Had this installment crashed and burned, the series would not be at the huge-scale level that it is today. Overall Rating: 7/10.

Tweekums After a thrilling prologue where Dominic Toretto and his team steal petrol tankers in the Dominican Republic the group breaks up before the cops can catch up with them. Then the story proper begins; one of the team is killed in Los Angeles so Dom risks imprisonment by returning to LA, where he is determined to discover who did it and take his revenge. Using his knowledge of the local street racing scene he traces the killer's car back to drug lord Arturo Braga. Brian O'Conner is also back in LA, working on an FBI in an operation to bring down Braga and his smuggling operation. Inevitably Brian and Dom are soon tearing up the streets as they compete for a position as one of Braga's drivers. Dom wins the position but Brian gets another position after arranging the arrest of another driver. Their first job sees them smuggling heroin through a secret tunnel from Mexico during which Dom learns the killer's identity but their troubles are far from over and neither is the excitement.After a third instalment that saw an entirely new cast racing in Japan it was good to get back to the original cast in the original city. Vin Diesel and Paul Walker have a great chemistry in these films… even when their characters are going up against each other one knows they will ultimately work together. For the most part there are no real surprises although it came as a genuine shock when we learn the identity of the friend of Dom that was murdered as the actor playing the part was high up the cast list… I won't give any further clues to their identity even though it becomes apparent very early in the film. As one would expect there are plenty of scenes involving cars travelling at speed; these are exciting; in particular the chase through the tunnel under the US/Mexican border. Overall I'm sure fans of the previous films will enjoy this as will those looking for mindless action without any really offensive content.

M MALIK this 4th installment in the series is quite underrated i have to say i have seen all of the fast furious films when i first saw this i hated it & thought it was boring because it is slow paced unlike other films but when i saw it the second time my opinion changed & i enjoyed it for what it was this one has a better story just like the first one,this film gave birth to the prequel series of fast & furious the story of the film happens around or after 2 fast & 2 furious.i just have a question how the hell did Jordana Brewster looked so cute here plus the hairstyle was great.one of the biggest things about this is the return of Vin diesel a lot of people though the series are over but Vin diesel just made a huge comeback in film industry with this one the action is nice here but the film itself is very dark & sad at times.for those who don't know Letty goes missing in this film & everyone thinks she is dead what happens is that Letty was working for Brian & Fbi secretly then she joins Braga & his gang but when the gang finds out there is a mole inside they get rid of her she escapes in a car but in the accident looses her memory in some hospital the international gang of Owen Shaw grabs her then she works with them it can be seen in fast n furious 6 later on Dom rescues Letty & defeating Ownen Shaw these events leads up to the emerging of super villain Dekard Shaw(Jason Statham) in furious seven 2015 story:plot is very simple here Brian joins Fbi & Dom returns in the big city together these 2 bring down a notorious drug runner Braga.Dom is hunted by the law here in the end when he gets arrested & being sent to jail Mia & Brian help him escape is one of the best scenes ever filmed in the series,fast five 2011 was nice but this one is betterthe opening oil tanker robbing scene is fantastic its like a bond film even better & more epic Vin Diesel is a insane man if he actually drove that fast on those mountain roads that's all i have to say.my view of this film is you don,t have to look deeper into this film to understand it it is just like a usual film only with a tight bonded narrative that blends easily with action.Overall Fast & Furious 2009 is a well made film so just grab a copy and enjoy it my rating is 7/10.Recommended