“限界を突き抜けろ！”
元警察官のブライアンは各地を逃亡しつつ流れ着いた先のマイアミで、ストリートレーサーとしてカリスマ的存在になっていたが、ある夜のレース後に、警官隊によって連行されてしまう。連行先のロサンゼルスでの強盗団捜査の指揮を執るFBI捜査官・ビルキンスの指示によるものであった。 過去の免罪の見返りとして麻薬組織の囮捜査を強要されたブライアンは、旧友のローマン・ピアースをパートナーとして捜査に乗り出すのだった。
製作費: $76,000,000 (114億円)
興行収入: $236,350,661 (355億円)
推定収支: $160,350,661 (241億円)
※製作費・興行収入はTMDBのデータを参照しています。収支は(興行収入 - 製作費)で算出したFindKey独自の推定値であり、広告宣伝費や諸経費は含まれません (1ドル=150円換算)。
監督: John Singleton
脚本: Gary Scott Thompson / Michael Brandt / デレク・ハーズ
音楽: David Arnold
制作: Michael Fottrell / Lee R. Mayes / ニール・Ｈ・モリッツ
撮影監督: Matthew F. Leonetti
制作会社: Ardustry Entertainment / Mikona Productions / Original Film / Universal Pictures
Get revved up for a bit of car porn. The second instalment of what will become an on going film franchise, 2 Fast 2 Furious ticks all the boxes of the action junkie fan. Paul Walker is back as Brian O'Conner and joined by Tyrese Gibson and Eva Mendes, who all get involved in an undercover job to bring down Cole Hauser's nefarious bad guy. There's lots of awesome cars, pecs and breasts, noise, carnage, violence and awful dialogue. The story is weak, but are we really looking for some brains over brawn here? We want car porn and we want it now! And so it delivers as per our polite request. John Singleton directs, David Arnold scores the music and Matthew F. Leonetti photographs the sumptuous Florida locations. 6/10
***Paul Walker and Tyrese Gibson team-up to bring down a pompous drug lord in south Florida*** Now living in the Miami area and no longer an undercover cop, Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker) is compelled by the authorities to work with a US Customs agent (Eva Mendes) to nail an arrogant drug lord (Cole Hauser). To accomplish this, he teams-up with an old street-racing buddy (Tyrese Gibson) who’s in dire need of redemption. Paul Walker is the only notable cast member to return for "2 Fast 2 Furious" (2003). The others won’t return until the fourth installment, “Fast & Furious” (2009). Anyway, I like the beginning of this sequel better than the first movie. Director John Singleton has a better eye for photographing women, at least as shown in the first 40 minutes or so; plus I appreciate the diverse cast, which also includes the likes of Ludacris as Tej, cutie Devon Aoki as Suki and James Remar as a lead agent. But as effective as Gibson is here, he can’t rival the charisma of Vin Diesel. And somewhere just after the midpoint I started to get a little bored. Nevertheless, “2 Fast 2 Furious” is an entertaining race-oriented action thriller. It basically mixes the first movie (2001) with “Licence to Kill” (1989). The film runs 1 hour, 47 minutes and was shot in the Miami area. GRADE: B-
Sadly, this sequel really did miss Vin Diesel. Paul Walker tries, he has a glint in his eye, and Tyrese Gibson gives it all he has as the wise-assed sidekick "Roman" but sadly this entire thing resembles an hybrid of "Starsky & Hutch" meets "Miami Vice". Plenty of squealing rubber, the cars and the people all look great but the thinnest of plots and some seriously woeful dialogue make this better to watch with the sound turned down. Poor stuff.
Walker isn't a cop anymore and after the first one we sort of know why don't we? But then he becomes a contract worker of the DEA or immigration and enlists an old friend to have his record cleared and that is about it. Nothing really comes from it. He has a crush on a woman who is working both sides of things and saves her by... driving a car into a boat. Yeah, it makes about that much sense, but, hey, Deadly Little Miho is in it and she really needed to stick around, she would have been a bright spot on this franchise.
