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Fast & Furious (film)

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Fast & Furious (also known as Fast & Furious 4) is a 2009 American street racing action film directed by Justin Lin and written by Chris Morgan. It is the fourth installment of The Fast and the Furious franchise. The film stars Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster and John Ortiz. The beginning of the Fast & Furious trilogy, Fast & Furious serves as a direct sequel to the first film, set five years after the events of The Fast and the Furious, the original cast reprising their roles.[3][4] Originally released on April 3, 2009, the film received negative reviews upon release, but was a box office success grossing $363 million worldwide.

Plot

When Letty Ortiz is murdered by the member of a drug cartel led by Arturo Braga, Dominic Toretto and Brian O'Conner infiltrate Braga's cartel as his new drivers to investigate the circumstances leading to her death.

Summary

Five years after escaping Los Angeles, Dominic Toretto and his new crew, (Letty, Tego Leo, Rico Santos, Cara Mirtha, and Han Seoul-Oh), are hijacking fuel tankers in the Dominican Republic. Dominic begins to suspect that the police are hot on their trail. After Han informs him that one of his garages have been raided, he disbands the crew. Everyone except Letty go their separate ways. Dominic, realizing that he must move on, he packs his things in the middle of the night and leaves Letty behind in order to protect her from the police.

Three months later, Dominic is now lives Panama City. While there, he receives a call from his sister, Mia Toretto, who tells him that Letty has been murdered in a car crash. Heartbroken, Dominic returns to Los Angeles in his 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS and watches Letty's funeral from a distance. Later, he reunites with Mia who takes him where Letty was killed. He examine the scene of Letty's crash and finds traces of nitromethane on the ground. Dominic head for the only car mechanic that sells nitromethane and convince him to give up information regarding David Park, the man who ordered the fuel. The mechanic tells Dominic that the only car that uses nitromethane is a green 1972 Ford Gran Torino Sport.

Meanwhile, FBI agent Brian O'Conner is trying to track down a drug lord named Arturo Braga. His search leads him to David Park, and he tracks him down using an illegal modification record on his car. Dominic arrives at Park's apartment first and hangs him out of the window by his ankles before letting go. Brian, who was on his way to Park's place, saves Park and Park becomes the F.B.I.'s new informant.

Park gets Brian into a street race through Los Angeles. Brian selects a modified 2002 Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 from the Impound Lot. Dominic also shows up to race in his modified Chevelle. Gisele Yashar, the liaison for Braga, reveals that the winner will become the last driver on a team that traffics heroin between the Mexico–United States border. Dominic wins by bumping Brian's car while it is in nitro, making him lose control. Brian uses his power as an F.B.I. agent to frame and arrest another driver, Dwight Mueller, and takes his place on the team.

The following day, the team meets one of Braga's men, named Fenix Calderon, and Dominic notices that Fenix drives the same Torino the mechanic described. They drive across the border using underground tunnels to avoid detection. Brian has prior knowledge that, after the heroin was delivered, Braga ordered the drivers to be killed. However, it is revealed to Dominic from Fenix that he killed Letty personally, and after a tense stand-off, Dominic detonates his car with nitrous to distract Braga's men, and Brian hijacks a 1999 Hummer H1 with $60 million worth of heroin in it. Both Dominic and Brian drive back to Los Angeles and hide the heroin in a police impound lot, where Brian picks up a modified 2009 Subaru Impreza WRX STi GH, and they drive to Dominic's hideout.

Later, Dominic finds out Brian was the last person to contact Letty. Dominic attacks Brian until Brian explains that Letty was working undercover for the FBI, tracking down Braga in exchange for clearing Dominic's record. Brian tells his superiors that in exchange for Dominic's pardon, he will lure Braga into a trap, forcing him to personally show up to exchange money for the heroin. At the drop site, the man who claims to be "Braga", is revealed as a decoy, and "Campos", the real Braga, escapes and flees to Mexico.

Brian and Dominic travel to Mexico on their own to catch Braga. They find him at a church and apprehend him. As Braga's henchmen try to rescue him, Brian and Dominic drive through the underground tunnels back to the United States. Brian crashes his car after taking fire from Braga's men. He is then injured after being T-boned by Fenix at the end of the tunnel. Before Fenix can kill Brian, Dominic drives into and kills Fenix. As police and helicopters start approaching the crash site on the American side of the border, Brian tells Dominic to leave, but Dominic refuses, saying that he is tired of running. Despite Brian's request for clemency, the judge sentences Dominic to 25 years to life. Brian resigns from the FBI and Dominic boards a prison bus that will transport him to Lompoc penitentiary. As the bus drives down the road, Brian, Mia, Leo and Santos arrive in their cars to intercept it, and Dom smiles as he immediately recognized the sound of his car's engine.

Cast

Principal Cast

Supporting Cast

Featured Cars

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Production

Fast & Furious was announced in July 2007. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and the rest of the cast of the original film all reprised their roles. Filming began in 2008. The movie cars were built in Southern California's San Fernando Valley. Around 240 cars were built for the film.[5] However, the replica vehicles do not match the specifications they were supposed to represent. For example, the replica version of F-Bomb, a 1973 Chevrolet Camaro built by Tom Nelson of NRE and David Freiburger of Hot Rod magazine, included a 300 hp crate V8 engine with a 3-speed automatic transmission, whereas the actual car included a twin-turbo 1,500 hp engine and a 5-speed transmission.[6]

The original Dodge Charger 426 Hemi R/T that was used in the original movie was a 1970, but the car in this movie was a 1969 Dodge Charger R/T 426 Hemi with a slightly modified front grill to appear as a 1970 car; the original 1970 Dodge Charger was in pieces, being totally disassembled for restoration. The most radical vehicles built for the film were the Chevy trucks constructed for the fuel heist. Powered by 502ci GM big block motors, the '67 had a giant ladder-bar suspension with airbags using a massive 10-ton semi rear axle with the biggest and widest truck tires they could find. The '88 Chevy Crew Cab was built with twin full-floating GM 1-ton axles equipped with Detroit Lockers and a transfer case directing power to both axles and capable of four-wheel burnouts.[7]

Another vehicle built for the film was the blue Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 owned by an uncredited owner which brought a 241-mile per hour top speed at the Bayshore Route Highway in Japan. It was a hard car to build by the production so they made clones by acquiring Nissan Skyline 25GT's and made them look like the original car. The Skyline that was also used at the desert was actually a dune buggy using a Skyline R34's shell.

Marketing

Fast & Furious was released in the United States on April 3, 2009. It was originally set to release on June 12, 2009, but moved it up to April 3, 2009 instead. It was the first motion-enhanced theatrical film to feature D-BOX motion feedback technology in selected theaters.[8]

Music

Various Artists

Main article: Fast & Furious (Soundtrack)

The various artists soundtrack was released on March 31, 2009 on Star Trak. The first single from the soundtrack was titled "Blanco" and is by Pitbull featuring Pharrell Williams and is produced by The Neptunes.[9] The second single from the album is "Krazy" by Pitbull featuring Lil Jon. The track is also featured on Pitbull's album Rebelution.

The third and final single from the album is "Bad Girls" by Robin Thicke. The soundtrack will also feature the song "G-Stro" by Busta Rhymes featuring Pharrell Williams and also produced by The Neptunes. The track is a leftover track from Busta Rhymes' album Back on My B.S. Amazon gave the album an average score of 3.5 out of 5, calling it a Spanish-themed rap soundtrack with mostly average tracks.

Another song that was omitted from the album was song "Rising Sun" by South Korean group TVXQ. The Japanese version of the movie features the song "Before I Decay" by Japanese rock group The GazettE. Also featured in the background under a club scene which was omitted from the album, was song "Ride" written by Kervins Joseph and Travis Baker, published by InDigi Avenue Music Publishing (ASCAP), courtesy InDigi Music, and Virtual Diva performed by Don Omar.

Original Score

Main article: Fast & Furious (score)

The score for Fast & Furious was composed by Brian Tyler, who recorded the score with the Hollywood Studio Symphony at the Newman Scoring Stage at 20th Century Fox.[9] The score album was released on CD by Varèse Sarabande Records with over seventy eight minutes worth of music.

Music Videos

Home Video Release

Critical Reception

Fast & Furious received generally mixed to negative reviews from professional critics. The film is rated at 28% based on 173 reviews collected on the Rotten Tomatoes website[10] and 45 on Metacritic based on 27 reviews.[11] Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gives the film a B+, saying, "Fast & Furious is still no Point Break. But it's perfectly aware of its limited dramatic mission...and...it offers an attractive getaway route from self-importance, snark, and chatty comedies about male bonding."[12]

Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter thought this movie was the first real sequel to the first and also gave it a positive review, writing, "Fast & Furious is the first true sequel of the bunch. By reuniting the two male stars from the original and...continuing the story from the first film, this new film should re-ignite the franchise."[13] Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times gave it a positive review, providing viewers were car fans, writing, "If you're a lover of stomach-clenching speed that turns the world into a neon blur...then Fast & Furious, the fourth edition of that metal-twisting series, should leave you exhausted and satiated for a very long time."[14]

Roger Ebert, who gave positive reviews to the previous films, gave an unfavorable review of the film, writing, "I admire the craft involved, but the movie leaves me profoundly indifferent. After three earlier movies in the series, which have been transmuted into video games, why do we need a fourth one? Oh. I just answered my own question."[15]

On its first day of release the movie grossed $30.5 million, and peaked at the top spot of the weekend box office with $70,950,500, more than Tokyo Drift earned in its entire domestic run.[16] The film had the sixth-biggest opening weekend of 2009 and was double what most industry observers expected.[17]

It also held the record for the highest-grossing opening weekend in April[18] and of any car-oriented film, the record having been previously held by Cars, which grossed $60.1 million. Both of these records were broken two years later by Fast Five, which grossed $86.2 million.[19] Fast & Furious also held the record for the highest opening weekend for a Spring release, until it was broken by Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.

Its worldwide gross on its opening weekend stands at $102.6 million[20] with $7.2 million coming from the UK, $8.6 million from Russia, $6 million in France and $3 million from Germany.[21]

As of July 27, 2011 the film had grossed a total of $155,064,265 in the United States and $363,164,265 worldwide (making it the fourth most successful film in the franchise behind Furious 7, Fast & Furious 6 and Fast Five) and is the fifth highest-grossing film in the car genre, behind Furious 7, Fast & Furious 6, Fast Five, and 'Cars.[2]

Sequel

Main article: Fast Five

Trivia

Videos

Trailers

Clips

Interviews

Featurettes

Gallery

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Behind the Scenes

Notes

References

  1. ↑ Fast & Furious
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 |title=Fast and Furious (2009)
  3. ↑ vAnother Familiar Face Is Returning For The New FAST AND THE FURIOUS Film!!
  4. ↑ Michelle Rodriguez Joins Walker and Diesel for The Fast and the Furious 4
  5. ↑ More Cars and More Action in Fast & Furious pedal to the floor March 20, 2015
  6. ↑ The F-Bomb Drops on Fast & Furious Edmunds Insideline March 13, 2009
  7. ↑ Fast & Furious Movie Cars – Faster And More Furious Hod Rod Magazine, May 2009
  8. ↑ Fast & Furious 4 To Be First Theatrical D-BOX Release
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Brian Tyler scores fast and furious with Fast & Furious
  10. ↑ Fast & Furious - Rotten Tomatoes
  11. ↑ Fast & Furious - Metacritic
  12. ↑ Fast & Furious (2009) - Entertainment Weekly
  13. ↑ Film Review: Fast & Furious -Hollywood Reporter
  14. ↑ Video review: Fast & Furious -Los Angeles Times
  15. ↑ Fast & Furious (2009) - Roger Ebert
  16. ↑ Daily Box Office for Friday, 3 April 2009
  17. ↑ Fast & Furious shatters box office records
  18. ↑ Walker, Diesel will return for ‘Furious’ sequel – Access Hollywood
  19. ↑ Weekend Report: 'Fast Five' Packs Record Heat
  20. ↑ Fast & Furious speeds to No. 1 worldwide
  21. ↑ The “Fast & Furious” international cume stands

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The Fast and the Furious (2001) • 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) • The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) • Fast & Furious (2009) • Fast Five (2011) • Fast & Furious 6 (2013) • Furious 7 (2015) • The Fate of the Furious (2017) • Hobbs & Shaw (2019) • Fast & Furious 9 (2021) • Fast X • Fast & Furious 11
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