The writers and producers of the braindead and equally boring hit The Fast and The Furious decided to put another mindless piece of junk in this world. As, it turned out, it's quite an improvement over part 1.
Vin Diesel rightfully picked other projects to work on so we have to do with Paul Walker playing his 'am I a cop or aren't I' routine (I still don't know whether he is or not), and this time around his play mate is 'Roman Pearce', played by a dude called Tyrese, who decided NOT to use a last name. Oh well.
To brighten things up they brought in Eva Mendes, whose characterization of 'Monica Fuentes' should have deserved her a razzie. My eyes, my eyes! (in a bad way, that is). Then there's Devon Aoki, who is completing the multi-cultural (to keep everybody happy?) line-up as 'Suki'.
The story is some blabla about a drug baron who keeps his money in a trailer (!), which has to picked up by our heroes he only met (!), so he can fly or sail away while having a shotgun at handy(!). Talk about your low profile Godfather of crime.
It all serves to let the attractive cast and luscious extra's have their go on some speedy cars apparently. It's a cross between a rap video and the incredibly intelligent MTV show 'Pimp My Ride'. With obviously some white and hispanic guys for marketing reasons.
The great thing about this movie is they got each car their own colour so to make sure we don't mix them up... this is for all you comatose kids out there I guess...
Back to the story: after a slow first 30 minutes or so things speed up and although the finale was kinda lacking, well, in everything really it was an OK ride (yes, all puns in this part are indeed intended).
Not as bad as part 1, but not nearly as good as, you know, a decent movie. 4/10.
Vin Diesel rightfully picked other projects to work on so we have to do with Paul Walker playing his 'am I a cop or aren't I' routine (I still don't know whether he is or not), and this time around his play mate is 'Roman Pearce', played by a dude called Tyrese, who decided NOT to use a last name. Oh well.
To brighten things up they brought in Eva Mendes, whose characterization of 'Monica Fuentes' should have deserved her a razzie. My eyes, my eyes! (in a bad way, that is). Then there's Devon Aoki, who is completing the multi-cultural (to keep everybody happy?) line-up as 'Suki'.
The story is some blabla about a drug baron who keeps his money in a trailer (!), which has to picked up by our heroes he only met (!), so he can fly or sail away while having a shotgun at handy(!). Talk about your low profile Godfather of crime.
It all serves to let the attractive cast and luscious extra's have their go on some speedy cars apparently. It's a cross between a rap video and the incredibly intelligent MTV show 'Pimp My Ride'. With obviously some white and hispanic guys for marketing reasons.
The great thing about this movie is they got each car their own colour so to make sure we don't mix them up... this is for all you comatose kids out there I guess...
Back to the story: after a slow first 30 minutes or so things speed up and although the finale was kinda lacking, well, in everything really it was an OK ride (yes, all puns in this part are indeed intended).
Not as bad as part 1, but not nearly as good as, you know, a decent movie. 4/10.