Sign In  | Register  |  Help

Critic Reviews

A gritty and gratifying cheap thrill, Rob Cohen's high-octane hot-car meller is a true rarity these days, a really good exploitationer, the sort of thing that would rule at drive-ins if they still existed.

-Todd McCarthyFull Review

While few of the paper-thin characters register long enough to make much of an impression, Diesel carries the movie with his unsettling mix of Zen-like tranquillity and barely controlled rage.

-Reece PendletonFull Review

Works hard to be exciting, but the movie scarcely lives up to its title.

-Owen GleibermanFull Review

Even those who've never heard of 'rice rockets' (Japanese imports souped up with computerized hydraulics and customized engines) might be charmed by the film's blend of kineticism, car-culture rituals, and hilariously flat-footed dialogue.

-Amy TaubinFull Review

May not have much of a brain, but it's definitely got a pulse.

-Andrew O'HehirFull Review

Diesel, Brewster and Rodriguez have undeniable charisma, while Walker is serviceable in his role.

-Curt FieldsFull Review

The young and the restless with gas fumes.

-Rita KempleyFull Review

Cohen ... at least knows how to keep matters moving and the action sequences exciting.

-Susan WloszczynaFull Review

The narrative takes a gutless turn and replaces the central (and exciting) conflict with a whole different set of villains.

-David EdelsteinFull Review

It's a formula movie, to be sure, but it's Formula One.

-Mick LaSalleFull Review

Remember that everyone is entitled to wallow in junk every once in a while -- even movie critics.

-Joe BaltakeFull Review

Rob Cohen, who last directed The Skulls -- ouch! -- can consider this one another career-killing skid mark.

-Peter Travers

Guilt-free pleasure, the sort that wears its trashiness on its sleeve and exults in it.

-Jan StuartFull Review

Such a drag that it ends up doing something hard to imagine: it makes you long for the soulless professionalism of a Jerry Bruckheimer movie.

-Elvis MitchellFull Review

Yes, the whole thing is pretty dumb, and every character and every situation is familiar from better movies.

-Jonathan Foreman

An action picture that's surprising in the complexity of its key characters and portents of tragedy.

-Kevin ThomasFull Review

These gear-heads may spout car-talk like know-it-alls, but they sound no less nerdy than trivia-obsessed Trekkers.

-Bruce WestbrookFull Review

Has B-movie grit, with sexy young actors, even sexier cars and the smarts to realize a teen movie will only work if you empathize with its characters.

-Kirk HoneycuttFull Review

The disconcertingly but finally happy surprise of the picture comes with the way it persuades you to its perverse point of view.

-Susan StarkFull Review

It's been a long time since we've had a junky exploitation movie we could really fall for. The Fast and the Furious is that movie.

-Terry Lawson

Breathes life and fire -- and fury -- into the old hot-rod movie.

-Steven RosenFull Review

Screenwriters Gary Scott Thompson, Erik Bergquist, and David Ayer haven't really written a movie, they've followed a formula.

-(CNN.com) Paul ClintonFull Review

It delivers what it promises to deliver, and knows that a chase scene is supposed to be about something more than special effects.

-Roger EbertFull Review

Doesn't manage to deliver the wild ride it promises.

-Liam LaceyFull Review

It jumps off the screen with the mindless panache of a good bad movie.

-Jay Carr

The guys in F & F are all wusses. Lara Croft and Charlie's Angels could kick all of their asses.

-Peter HowellFull Review

If you're 14 and love Limp Bizkit, or 50 and yearn to lay down some rubber, chances are you'll think this honey corners like it's on rails.

-Kevin Maynard

Will appeal to the inner juvenile delinquent in all of us.

-Philip WuntchFull Review

A massive compendium of youth-movie/ pedal-to-the-metal cliches.

-Steven Rea

Since we've become a nation of 9-mile-per-gallon, automatic-transmission SUV-driving sissies, a movie about the blood-curdling speed you can achieve in a Honda Civic is probably all we deserve.

-Roger Moore


© Copyright 2005-2012 mSpot, Inc. All rights reserved.
mSpot®, mSpotTM, mSpot MoviesTM, and mSpot Movies ClubTM are trademarks or registered trademarks
of mSpot, Inc.
mSpot MoviesTM service available in USA only. Watch on supported phones, tablets, computer
browsers, and web-enabled TVs.
Help -  About the Company -  Terms and Conditions -  Privacy Policy
Other mSpot Services: mSpot Music |  Radio |  Music Sync