Fast And Furious - 玩命關頭4

Fast And Furious (玩命關頭4) is 2009 film about street car racing. The film stars Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, and Jordana Brewster. I had an Upcoming and Box Office post for this. I caught this via Netflix the other day.

The movie is directed by Taiwanese-American Justin Lin. You'll see Sung Kang reprise his role as Han. You'll also see some peeps from Justin's Finishing the Game movie.

The movie starts with a oil truck heist with Dominic and Letty. Han and gal pal are in car #2. Tego and Rico are in car #3. They make off with 3 of the 5 cars, but not before there's plenty of mayhem and explosions. Dominic thinks its too dangerous to have Letty follow him now and decides to leave for Panama. Letty goes back to LA. Letty is murdered in LA however. Dom goes back to LA for revenge. It is there that Dom and O'Conner meet up again and try to take down the Braga cartel.

The movie was pretty much non stop action. The pacing was crazy and the dialog was minimal. It's a wild ride that's closer to the first installment. Since most of it is based in LA and has many of the original cast. The movie ends with a the possibility of a follow up.

Props to Justin Lin for the movie. It was a box office success and revived the career of Vin Diesel. Sequel(s) are in the works. I hope they give the movie(s) to Justin.

玩命關頭4 - Fast And Furious - Box Office

Fast And Furious (玩命關頭4) took the number one box office postion for the latest weekend in the USA. Coming in at a cool $70,950,500 (USD) for Apr 3 - 5 weekend of 2009. A little lower than the estimated $72 million from Sunday night.

That's not a bad take for a fourth installment. What I am happy about is that Justin Lin is the director. I wrote about this back in February. This is just what Justin needs to help keep him making his indie stuff.

It's set for a April 17th release in Taiwan. Good luck to it in Justin's birth country.

Fast & Furious - 玩命關頭4 - Upcoming

Justin Lin is back at the helm of 4th installment of the The Fast and the Furious film series, Fast & Furious. This is a step back into the past by bringing back Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, and Jordana Brewster from the first film.

The hype is starting as trailer and production stills are making their way slowly to the web. I caught the trailer during this years Super Bowl and was excited.

I hope Justin Lin will get more opportunity to make his type of films. I think of these as his "keep the ball moving" type movies. I expect his next film to be more his style. Especially since Fast & Furious will only feature Asians in the back drop and no one in a prominent roll.