 John Singleton's 2 Fast 2 Furious is the sequel to The Fast and the Furious but lacks Vin Diesel. It's may have everything else, however. As Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert observes, the movie "is a video game crossed with a buddy movie, a bad cop-good cop movie, a Miami druglord movie, a chase movie and a comedy. It doesn't have a brain in its head, but it's made with skill and style and, boy, is it fast and furious." Most critics hint that they could easily tear the film apart but are reluctant to do so. As Chris Kaltenbach writes in the Baltimore Sun: "Maybe lighting into this movie because it doesn't aspire 2 anything else is like slamming a mosquito for existing only 2 suck blood." Likewise Lou Lumenick comments in the New York Post: "2 Fast 2 Furious is a lark for anyone who's willing to check their brains at the concession stand for 100 minutes - a virtual requirement for multiplex audiences between now and Labor Day." However, A.O. Scott in the New York Times appears not impressed in the least by the action sequences. He writes that 2 Fast 2 Furious "is among the most lethargic action movies I have ever seen ... it might as well be called 2 Slow 2 Tedious." And Stephen Hunter concludes in the Washington Post: "2 Fast 2 Furious is 2 loud and 2 long. It makes any1 over the age of 30 go AGHHHHHHHH! But any1 over the age of 30 who goes 2 it is 2 dumb 2 worry about." |
