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...says action films can't address today's most pressing international issues? Fast & Furious, the fourth episode in Universal's car-chase franchise, tells the story of professional drivers toting heroin across the border into California and corralling the villainous Mr. Big. The movie solves the auto-buying drought and the Mexican drug wars in one huge testosterone fantasy...
...actor who seems motor-driven - ideal as the headliner of special-effects action films like this weekend's Fast & Furious, the fourth in a series that launched in 2001 and has now been stripped of its definite articles because, in Hollywood, thes are for wimps. In a car-demolition picture like F&F, the real work in the driving and fighting and jumping scenes is done by stuntmen and computer nerds, but the stories require a stoic male presence, and that, Diesel provides to the teen boys who constitute such a movie's core audience. Like Stallone and Schwarzenegger...
...hangs by a strap on the back of a huge semi speeding just in front of him. (It's just as well Rodriguez isn't at the wheel; as fans of thesmokinggun.com know, the actress does not have an exemplary driving record.) Letty manages to slip into Dom's car just before the truck crashes and explodes. But the semi hasn't completed its mischief: it starts tumbling toward them. With no escape, Dom guns his car toward the truck, which, following the physical laws of action movies (cf. Live Free or Die Hard), can be counted on to flip...
...Morgan or the stunt supervisors may have peeked at the 1954 car-chase movie called The Fast and the Furious, which also begins with a truck careering down a winding road, crashing and bursting into flames - except in the original, the whole thing took exactly 10 seconds. The opening scene runs about 10 minutes and is a smartly choreographed ballet mécanique. But Rodriguez's character isn't around much longer; Letty gets killed soon after. Fortunately, when Dom examines the crime scene, he turns out to have skills as both a specialist in tire-tread forensics...
...ethical dilemmas implicit in a plot involving spies, treachery, and corporate litigation—even after five mentally exhausting plot twists. Gilroy uses the same intelligent crime thriller formula as his “Bourne” trilogy, but “Duplicity” relies on neither car chases nor intricate fight scenes to provide its thrills. Instead it depends on countless moments of shocking deceptions. After the spies’ initial hook-up in Dubai, Claire drugs Ray and steals some top-secret Egyptian military codes. Despite the lack of careful choreography, high-tech gear, and explosions, Gilroy...