Iv'e seen all the fast and furious movies, and they all great, this one was kinda good with the beginning and middle but rubbish ending, i mean i thought it was gonna keep going before it ended, but still there all cool styles of movies together, cause i watched 'em one after another so thats cool. Not really suitable for kids but i watched it and im 12 so ... It did have bad swear words in at different times of the movie, thats for this one. It was kinda rude in parts with probably some refrence talk, and some positions people were in were kinda wrong but quick. There were obviously half-naked woman in it like every one. There was a part when a mans hand gets moved to a womans breast which was kinda wrong.
The Fast and the Furious
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Common Sense says
This is a bad, bad movie. Skip it.
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for Ages 14–15
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What Parents Need to Know
This review of The Fast and the Furious was written by Nell Minow
Parents need to know that this is as close to an R as it can be and remain a PG-13. It's very violent, with shoot-outs that leave one character dead and another seriously wounded. A character takes one risk that appears suicidal. Characters drink and smoke. Corona beer seems to be an especially obvious product placement, and giving someone a beer is a gesture of honor and acceptance. There is a same-sex kiss, some skanky behavior, and women appear in scanty clothing. There's a non-graphic but explicit sexual situation. Characters use very strong language, including the "N" word and other racial slurs. Viewers see some gross photographs of an injured man. Characters are in extreme peril, both in racing and in shoot-outs. Robbing and shooting are sympathetically portrayed, and Brian's ultimate decision is a serious betrayal.
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What’s the Story?
In THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS, Brian (Paul Walker) is a loner with a fancy racecar who wants to get into the hidden world of street racers. He also wants to get close Mia (Jordana Brewster), the pretty sister of the fastest driver of them all. The street racers take over a quarter mile stretch for races that last less than 10 seconds, then disperse before the police catch up with them. Brian challenges Mia's brother Dom (Vin Diesel) and loses both the race and his car to the jeers of the onlookers. But he rescues Dom from the police and sticks with him through an encounter with a rival gang. Soon, he is a member of Dom's rag-tag team of outcasts – mechanic Jesse (Chad Lindberg), brooding Vince (Matt Schulze), and tough girl Letty (Michelle Rodriguez). But after races and chases in various locales, it turns out that neither Dom nor Brian has been telling the truth and that both will have to put what they care about most on the line before it is all over.
Is It Any Good?
I don't ask for much from summer popcorn movies. Give me some car chases and explosions, some romance, and a nasty villain who meets a nastier end, and I'm happy. I had high hopes for The Fast and the Furious to be a classic of this genre, but it turned out to be a numbing waste of celluloid, a bad, bad movie that cannot even fake authenticity. It is not about what is cool or about what the people in the audience think is cool. It is about what people in Hollywood think that the people in the audience think is cool.
There is a lot of posing and attitude, and nearly every line is a cliché, spoken without any sense of irony, tribute, or transcendence. There is some flashy photography, a lot of blasting faux-hip rap music, very fine cars, and sprays of automatic weapon bullets that manage to miss all the main characters. The last fifteen minutes is genuinely, deeply, infuriatingly stupid. Diesel and Rodriguez are talented and watchable, but this movie insists on interfering with our ability to enjoy them.
Movie Details
Studio: Universal Pictures, Director: Rob Cohen
Run time: 0 minutes
Theatrical release: 6/22/2001, DVD release: 6/3/2003
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violence, language, and brief sexuality
Run time: 0 minutes
Theatrical release: 6/22/2001, DVD release: 6/3/2003
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violence, language, and brief sexuality
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I rate this title iffy for age 13 and give it
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Good movie
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I rate this title on for age 14 and give it
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I Don't Know What You Guys Are Talkng About but The Fast & The Furious Shouldnt be a bad movie and it doesnt have very strong language i think this movie is on the rating
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I rate this title on for age 11 and give it
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WTF COMMENSESNE
WTF COMMONSENSE THE MOVIE WUZ AWESOME
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I rate this title on for age 14 and give it
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- Excessive violence
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good
ok so how can you think this is a bad movie. seriously? action packed series gives this movie quite an adrenaline rush
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I rate this title on for age 14 and give it
I haven't seen this movie, but I just wanted to say...
I'm sure it isn't too bad for 14 and up, Everyone I know has seen and loved it. And that was a very immature title, csm. it's not a bad, bad, movie. Give it a shot, thats what I'm doing.
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I rate this title off for age 17 and give it
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I rate this title iffy for age 13 and give it
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a must see classic
awesome movie rthis is not your standaed action film there is no clear good or bad guy the film has awesome action sequences. the film is very well made i think that commonsense media is stupid for not giving this sction classic it's due the film is a classic must watch. just don't expect your standard action film here
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I rate this title iffy and give it
A great movie!
I love the car chases in this movie and the cars too! Paul Walker is really hot in this movie! Very entertaining!
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I rate this title iffy and give it
Fast Cars, Great Story
Awsome Story good acting and you really start caring about the charicters. It's not as violent as the revewe says
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| 50% | of parents don't think the messages are positive |
| 50% | of parents don't feel there are good role models |
| 50% | of parents say there's too much drinking, drugs, or smoking |
| 50% | of parents say they notice product placement |
| 50% | of parents say the sexual behavior isn't age appropriate |
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