2 Fast 2 Furious Review
With its Miami Beach setting, cadre of evil-druglord villains, and gravity-defying car chases, director John_Singleton's follow-up to 2001's sleeper hit The Fast and the Furious isn't really trying to live up to its predecessor so much as it's attempting to be the big-screen equivalent of *Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. In that respect, it can only fail. The !Playstation title boasts a better cast than the Vin_Diesel-less 2 Fast 2 Furious, not to mention more-authentic production design, visually coherent stunts, and -- most importantly -- a keen awareness of its own clichés. But perhaps that's an unfair comparison. To its credit, 2 Fast substitutes an irrepressible, off-the-cuff turn from Tyrese for the MIA Diesel, and Singleton doesn't try to downplay the various ethnicities of his cast the way Rob_Cohen did with the first film. Of course, this means that whitebread lead Paul_Walker seems even squarer than he did last time around, and as a result, his buddy-buddy rapport with Tyrese comes off less like 48_Hours and more like a middling episode of Fox's Fastlane. (Accentuating the TV feel is Singleton's reliance on David_Arnold's cheesy score.) Still, Singleton's able to score enough points with his kinetic-if-ridiculous street-racer opening to make one think that there still might be some life left in this franchise after all. Michael Hastings, Rovi
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