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Fast and Furious Movie Review
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Fast and Furious Movie – Plot After a successful run of hijacking fuel tankers in the Dominican Republic, Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) has become an international criminal. Under increasing pressure from the local police, Dom’s partner Han (from the third film) decides to flee to Tokyo. Dom tries to convince Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) to run away again with him to another country. She refuses, and so he leaves her. (The prologue ends here.)Some time later, Letty is found to have been shot dead in her wrecked car. Dom returns to the scene of her murder just outside of L.A.. There, he discovers traces of nitromethane, which allows him to lead a personal investigation up to a certain David Park, who had purchased the nitromethane for the driver who killed Letty. Park is coerced into helping Dom get a spot in a street race, arranged by Ramon Campos, where he will supposedly find Letty’s killer.Meanwhile, Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker), now an FBI agent, is assigned to track down a notorious drug lord named Arturo Braga. Brian’s investigation also leads him to David Park. He arrives at Park’s apartment while Dom is still interrogating him. At the FBI bureau, Park also tells Brian that the aforementioned street race grants the winner a spot on the team that traffics heroin across the United States-Mexico border for Braga. Dom and Brian participate in the race, and Dom wins. Having lost the race, Brian uses his position at the FBI to wrongfully arrest Dwight Mueller, another of Braga’s drivers, in order to usurp Mueller’s spot on the team. Ramon Campos, Braga’s right hand man, invites the drivers to a party, where Dom ends up in a confrontation with a driver called Fenix, and Brian looks for signs of Braga.The next day, the team’s drivers and their cars are smuggled into Mexico to receive the heroin which they are to import across the border at night. They are to meet with Fenix en route and pass through a path of tunnels to evade the surveillance systems used to monitor the borders. Gisele, Braga’s liason, gives Dom a subtle warning in the form of the Spanish phrase “vaya con Dios” After the run, Dom realizes that the drivers are routinely shot and killed after each import job, to avoid having to pay them. Letty, having been in the same situation, was the only driver to get away when they shot her team. The ensuing pursuit led to her car crash and getting shot. Now, just before shooting Brian and Dom, Fenix admits with no remorse that he killed Letty. Suddenly, the cars behind them explode due to sabotage by Dom, who had anticipated the betrayal. Brian uses this diversion to hijack one of the Hummers carrying the heroin, and escape the gunfire with Dom.Back in L.A., they hide the Hummer in the LAPD impound lot, and Brian claims that Dom now owes him a “10-second car”, echoing Dom’s line from the first movie. Dom smashes the window of an impounded Subaru Impreza WRX STi, which he “gives” to Brian. They go to the Torrettos’ house, where Dom learns that Brian had been contacted by Letty, who had agreed to infiltrate Braga’s organization to collect information in exchange for clemency for Dom, so that he could return home to her in LA. This is how she had ended up being one of the drivers for the Braga import job which led to her death. Mia forgives Brian for his past betrayal five years earlier.The next day, he tells his superiors about his plan to lure Braga into a trap, offering him his heroin back in exchange for $6 million, which Braga is to deliver himself. However, Brian requests that the FBI pardon Dom before proceeding with the plan. Campos agrees to Brian’s deal, not knowing that the FBI is poised to arrest Braga at the exchange site. However, the FBI only succeeds in apprehending Braga’s decoy, realizing too late that Campos is the real Braga. Because of this error, Braga is able to evade capture and flees to Mexico, out of the FBI’s jurisdiction. Read the rest of this entry » |
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CITY OF MEN Movie Review
Brazil’s Fernando Meirelles earned an Academy Award nomination for his direction of his 2002 breakthrough City of God and went on to more acclaim for his 2005 English-language debut, The Constant Gardener. But he’s remained loyal to the country and movie that made his reputation, producing a successful spinoff TV series called “City of Men,” which ran for four seasons totaling 19 episodes in Brazil and played in the U.S. on Sundance Channel.
Now the TV spinoff has come full circle as a feature film, with the same two former nonprofessional teenage actors who had minor roles in City of God and grew up before our eyes on the TV series. Those two actors, the sweetly vulnerable Douglas Silva and the markedly handsome Darlan Cunha, are a big factor in the series’ success, and fully deserve their shot at the big screen in the colorful and engaging City of Men movie. Read the rest of this entry »
Nagesh Kukunoor is back to the genre he began his career with — a light entertainer. In his new outing, BOMBAY TO BANGKOK, he goes a step further and incorporates every ingredient available on the shelf that constitutes atypical Hindi film. This one’s not ’same-same, but different’ from Kukunoor’s earlier films!But all’s not well in Kukunoor’s BOMBAY TO BANGKOK. The plot, though interesting, isn’t fine-tuned into a gripping screenplay. What holds promise at the start turns out to be a below-ordinary exercise midway through the film.
