速度与激情(The Fast and the Furious)
环球公司(Universal Pictures, USA)2001年出品

主演：
　　　范-迪斯尔(Vin Diesel)
　　　保罗-沃克尔(Paul Walker)
　　　乔丹娜-布鲁斯特(Jordana Brewster)
导演：罗布-科恩(Rob Cohen)
类型：动作片
分级：PG-13(暴力、性场面)

　　曾主演《星际传奇》(“Pitch Black”)的范-迪斯尔(Vin Diesel)和主演《头骨俱乐部》(“The Skulls”)的保罗-沃克尔(Paul Walker)，此次联袂出演动作冒险片《速度与激情》，以一副冷酷英雄的面目出现在洛杉矶街头，展开了一场亡命飙车大赛。

　　洛杉矶街头的年轻人将这种疯狂飙车当作是建立权威和赢得赌赛的手段，以期一战成名，赢得荣誉和财富。沃克尔在片中饰演一个警察局的新人，他受命充当卧底，装扮成一个飙车爱好者，打入飙车组织以查清多宗劫车事件。一开始，他竭力讨好这个飙车组织的老大多米尼克(范-迪斯尔饰)，并赢得了好感。可不久，这个飙车队的其它成员开始怀疑他们之中有奸细，此时沃克尔发现自己已经身陷囹圄了，激动人心的摊牌时候到了。

　　出演本部电影的酷星还包括出演过《老师不是人》(“The Faculty”)的乔丹娜-布鲁斯特(Jordana Brewster),出演过《落在香杉树上的雪花》(“Snow Falling On Cedars”)的里克-云恩(Rick Yune)，以及主演《女拳师》(“Girlfight”)的米歇尔-罗德里格兹(Michelle Rodriquez)。

　　《速度与激情》的导演是曾执导过《头骨俱乐部》的罗布-科恩(Rob Cohen)，制片是曾制作过《危险性游戏》(“Cruel Intentions”)的尼尔-H-莫里兹(Neal H. Moritz)。本片在向观众们展现现代汽车的精美和震憾人心的设计的同时，也奉献出了迄今为止银屏上最激动人心、令人叹为观止的赛车场面。

Every summer a film comes around that takes everyone by surprise. Last year it was Scary Movie and I'm sure in 1977 it was a film like Star Wars and then in 1981 it was Raiders of the Lost Ark. Now I am not saying that The Fast and the Furious is in the same class as Raiders and Star Wars, just that it surprised everyone on the same level. F&F is short on plot and dialogue and even some of the acting is lame, but what it is oozes is testosterone. It pumps your blood, increases your adrenaline and attacks you with fast cars, sexy women and that one invariable that I think it has going for it... Vin Diesel. There is just something about the guy, something that you really can't put your finger on, but he just has it. Maybe it is charisma, maybe it is charm, maybe it is just that he resembles some of the action heroes from the 80's with his chiseled triceps and his slabs of pecs. Maybe it is all those things and maybe it is none of those things, all I know is that F&F is exactly what I had hoped it would be and nothing more. This is the summer movie that I have been waiting for. It's not that the films that have been out so far aren't that great because some of them are, it's just that this is the one that epitomises what summer as a teen ager is all about. It is no wonder that exit polls for this film were around 65-70% under the age of 21. And maybe that is why I enjoyed it so much. I am pushing 30 but isn't it cool to lose yourself in a film that reminds you what it was like to be in highschool. And isn't it cool to watch street racers break 140 miles an hour wile they shoot NOS through their vehicles? Well isn't it?

F&F doesn't contain any machinations similar to a film like Mission Impossible and it doesn't dazzle us with special effects of impending doom like Armageddon did, but it takes us into a world where people live life "a quarter of a mile at a time."

Vin Diesel plays Dominic Toretto, a massive, bald mechanic that owns a garage but street races on the side to make some extra cash. Paul Walker ( The Skulls, Varsity Blues) plays Brian Spindler. He is a cop that has infiltrated the street gang to find out who is highjacking trucks and stealing all their merchandise. There are about four rival street gangs in L.A. and one of them is pulling this off. He has to figure out which one. Of course along the way he seduced by the life, but that is not what we really care about. All we want to see is lots of racing, a few crashes, some fights and some sex. F&F doesn't disappoint. If what you have seen in the trailers of the film excites and entices you, then you know exactly what you're in for. This is not going to win any Oscars for anything but what it will do is entertain you. It will expedite you for 90 minutes into a world where Honda's are souped up to look like Dragons and junkyard scraps are rebuilt from scratch to be better than they were before, better, stronger and faster. If this film appealed to you in the commercial, it will appeal to you on the screen.

And of course there is Vin Diesel. He first made a name for himself in Saving Private Ryan where he played Capparrzo. Then he jumped onto the scene with his excellent and grandiose turn as Riddick in Pitch Black. I think this is the film that got him noticed because no one had even heard of him before this. Then he did Boiler Room and he showed a different side to him. But F&F is all muscle and sheer bravado. I think Vin is going to do great things in the years to come. He is not a nobody anymore. This film will take care of that. And face it, isn't it cool to see the genesis of a new action hero?

8 out of 10- The ultimate summer rush!