Paul Walker

Tyrese Gibson

Eva Mendes

Cole Hauser

Ludacris

James Remar

Thom Barry

Michael Ealy

Mark Boone Junior

Devon Aoki

Roberto 'Sanz' Sanchez

Mo Gallini

Edward Finlay

Au-Yeung Jin

Amaury Nolasco

Eric Etebari

John Cenatiempo

Neal H. Moritz

Troy Brown

Corey Michael Eubanks

Sammy Maloof

Troy Robinson

Sincerely A. Ward

Nievecita Dubuque

Mateo Herreros

Kerry Rossall

Marc Macaulay

Tony Bolano

Marianne M. Arreaga

Tara Carroll

Tamara Jones

Bruce Cannon

Gary Scott Thompson

Michael Brandt

John Singleton

Matthew F. Leonetti

Dallas Puett

Michael Fottrell

Lawrence A. Hubbs

Lee R. Mayes

David Arnold

Derek Haas

Keith Brian Burns

Brian Moon

Rick Simpson

Sanja Milković Hays

Jon Danniells

Camille Argus

Kimberly Hardin

Grady Allen Bishop

Heather Lieberman

Crystal Dowd

Michael J. Wassel

E. Melanie Moore

Carla Antonino

Brian Allen

Kostas Theodosiou

Terry Miller

Barry Gross

Alexa Marino

Pauletta O. Lewis

Greg Hedgepath

Hugh Conlon

Rita Duffey

Ntana Key

Kurt Beckler

Chris Furia

Christopher M. Fisher

Bob 'Smitty' Smith

Duke Foster

Tammy Sandler

Elizabeth Elwell

Jane Everett

Ron Goodman

George Schoendorfer

Michael Farrow

Tim Black

Luciano Blotta

Edmond J. Coblentz Jr.

Lisa Rodgers

Robert Crowley

Rod Ortega

Roger Sherman

Joyce M. Lark

Bob Bowman

Daniel Birnbaum

Adam Klitzner

Jeff Smithwick

Thomas P. Powell

Tom Ozanich

Michael Kory

David S. Campbell

Douglas Shamburger

Jordan Corngold

John S. Moyer

Alicia Accardo

Thomas M. Allen

Walter Anderson

Liba Daniels

Valerie Fusaro

Stephen P. Durante

Larry Donahue

Bob Graham

Matthew Binns

James P. Crapser

Christian Labarta

Sharon Smith Holley

Michael J. Schwartz

Mark Weber

Collin Fowler

Xelinda Yancy

Nicholas Scott

David Norris

John Feinblatt

Tom Bahr

Jeff Glueck

Tom Slovick

Ben Wilkins

Donna Battersby Greene

Matt Baker

Frank Davis

Syd Dutton

Kevin Long

Bill Meadows

Leah Daniels-Butler

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Get revved up for a bit of car porn.

The second instalment of what will become an on going film franchise, 2 Fast 2 Furious ticks all the boxes of the action junkie fan. Paul Walker is back as Brian O'Conner and joined by Tyrese Gibson and Eva Mendes, who all get involved in an undercover job to bring down Cole Hauser's nefarious bad guy. There's lots of awesome cars, pecs and breasts, noise, carnage, violence and awful dialogue. The story is weak, but are we really looking for some brains over brawn here? We want car porn and we want it now! And so it delivers as per our polite request. John Singleton directs, David Arnold scores the music and Matthew F. Leonetti photographs the sumptuous Florida locations. 6/10

***Paul Walker and Tyrese Gibson team-up to bring down a pompous drug lord in south Florida***

Now living in the Miami area and no longer an undercover cop, Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker) is compelled by the authorities to work with a US Customs agent (Eva Mendes) to nail an arrogant drug lord (Cole Hauser). To accomplish this, he teams-up with an old street-racing buddy (Tyrese Gibson) who’s in dire need of redemption.

Paul Walker is the only notable cast member to return for "2 Fast 2 Furious" (2003). The others won’t return until the fourth installment, “Fast & Furious” (2009). Anyway, I like the beginning of this sequel better than the first movie. Director John Singleton has a better eye for photographing women, at least as shown in the first 40 minutes or so; plus I appreciate the diverse cast, which also includes the likes of Ludacris as Tej, cutie Devon Aoki as Suki and James Remar as a lead agent.

But as effective as Gibson is here, he can’t rival the charisma of Vin Diesel. And somewhere just after the midpoint I started to get a little bored. Nevertheless, “2 Fast 2 Furious” is an entertaining race-oriented action thriller. It basically mixes the first movie (2001) with “Licence to Kill” (1989).

The film runs 1 hour, 47 minutes and was shot in the Miami area.

GRADE: B-

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Sadly, this sequel really did miss Vin Diesel. Paul Walker tries, he has a glint in his eye, and Tyrese Gibson gives it all he has as the wise-assed sidekick "Roman" but sadly this entire thing resembles an hybrid of "Starsky & Hutch" meets "Miami Vice". Plenty of squealing rubber, the cars and the people all look great but the thinnest of plots and some seriously woeful dialogue make this better to watch with the sound turned down. Poor stuff.

Walker isn't a cop anymore and after the first one we sort of know why don't we?

But then he becomes a contract worker of the DEA or immigration and enlists an old friend to have his record cleared and that is about it.  Nothing really comes from it.

He has a crush on a woman who is working both sides of things and saves her by... driving a car into a boat.

Yeah, it makes about that much sense, but, hey, Deadly Little Miho is in it and she really needed to stick around, she would have been a bright spot on this franchise.

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Written by John Chard on Sun Jan 03 2016

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