Ben Oliver

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2 Fast 2 Furious

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02 February 2025

The first film made a lot of money so they went and banged out a sequel. Paul Walker’s back, Vin Diesel isn’t.

It’s pretty much a remake of the first film, just in a different setting with different villains. Walker is dragged back into the police, into an undercover operation where he has to use his street racing skills to work for the bad guys. He teams up with an old friend, Tyrese - who actually can act and sort of rescues the film from total doom.

Eva Mendes is also in this, who besides looking absolutely incredible, also can act. Paul Walker meanwhile seems to struggle to get his lines out. There’s a painful amount of early 2000s cool guy speak, with Paul Walker saying ‘bruh’ and ‘cuh’ more than seems decent.

We’re still at a point in time here where the Furious producers haven’t realised that these films are about people, not about street racing criminals and undercover cops. The bromance (or dare I say, straight up romance?) between Walker and Tyrese is all that works, and I think they wisely pull on that thread in the later films - we’re about to find out.

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