Meanwhile, director Rob Cohen had read a 1998 Vibe magazine article called “Racer X” about illegal street racing in New York. His response was that he wanted to do a mash-up of Days of Thunder and Donnie Brasco.
The 2001 original was intended as a vehicle for Walker, who’d been asked what sort of film he’d like to star in.
#Keep it wheel series
The series started as a relatively straightforward and borderline gritty action thriller (and also essentially as a rip-off of Point Break). The beginner’s guide to The Fast and the Furious is that it chronicles the ever more ludicrous adventures of a group of international car thieves. Either you’re all in or you just don’t get it. That’s the other thing that sets its apart from other big-screen properties. If you’re not a true believer you’re probably a little bit iffy about F&F and its nine instalments to date.
We get brake-squealing action punctuated with zinging one-liners and knockabout humour. What’s important is that, in pitting Dwayne Johnson’s Agent Hobbs and Jason Statham’s renegade secret service man Deckard Shaw against a computer enhanced super-villain played by Idris Elba, F&F once again delivers. But, also technically speaking, this in no way matters. The film is, technically speaking, a spin-off rather than a sequel proper. Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw, which you should rush out to see immediately, continues this tradition.
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