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      2009 20m Action Drama List
      Reviews 54% 250+ Ratings Audience Score The crew reunites in the Dominican Republic to break Leo Tego out of prison and hijack gas shipments. Read More Read Less

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      Jithin K Vin Diesel directing everyone to treat him like a God while the camera hangs around like it is capturing the most profound truth in the world. Add a little bit of real commentary in the beginning before he actually appears and make the opening of Fast & Furious more of a social issue. This could've been like a two minute thing in the movie itself if it even needed to exist but here we are. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 04/28/23 Full Review victor o After having watched Fast & Furious, I always wondered who some of the other players were in the film beginning with the gasoline theft pulled in the Dominican Republic. I recognized Han from Tokyo Drift and of course Letty and Dom but Cara, Leo, and Santos were a mystery to me and didn't grow on me. As it turns out, you got to watch this short film to understand, and it's just as worthy as the feature-length film. In many respects the true sequel to the first Fast and the Furious movie as we finally get to see what Dominic Toretto has been doing after Brian O'Connor let him escape at the end of the first movie. Meeting up with old friends in the Dominican Republic, Leo, and Santos a pair of career criminals in prison. They meet up with Cara at her home as they and an old friend of his from America by the name of Han get ready to free Leo and Santos. But as a job is ready to be pulled another person from Dom's life in America returns, his old girlfriend Letty. In many ways, this short film is similar to another short film that happened with Brian before he arrived in Miami at the beginning of 2 Fast 2 Furious. Only this feels more polished and stronger a story than the sustained montage, a real movie than a music video. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member This short film didn't need to exist*. Yes, the characters were likable enough, Michelle Rodriguez arguably felt like she was utilised better here than in the 2009 movie despite there not being much of a difference in screen time and the ending was cutesy but, as a prelude to the fourth entry in a franchise that still revolved around racing at the time, it doesn't seem to have anything to say. The 2 Fast 2 Furious prelude short film actually felt like it had some reason to exist, even including a few thrills in the bargain, but this one doesn't. The opening action sequence in the movie already established that this was a direct sequel to the 2001 film. It's not like anything meaningful happens here nor is there any subtle world-building such as something setting up the next movie's genre shift to a heist flick, it's just an extension of the post-credits scene from the first film but in a different location whilst some corrupt dude tells Dominic Toretto to pretty please make an awesome action sequence with that gas truck in his country the day after their talk because he liked F&F better when it had his bald-ass head in it and didn't think much about that white boy's relocation to Japan, only liking that entry's ending because of you-know-who. Are you sick of me rambling on about a stupid short film's superfluous purpose yet? Because while I wasn't expecting much out of a 20-minute short film that precedes the beginning of the movie, Vin Diesel, who is also directing, could've done a much better job than what felt like an excuse for him to go on vacation in the Dominican Republic. Oh well, whatever barely satisfies my cravings for testosterone-laden over-the-top racing action while waiting patiently for Fast10 Your Seatbelts. P.S. No, I'm not looking at the Netflix/DreamWorks show. That cheaply-animated, crappy-looking Hot Wheels rip-off can piss off. I thought that thing cartoons did where the protagonist is a previously-never-mentioned relative of the movie protagonist, who will never show up on the big screen died out years ago when film-based cartoons started doing their damnedest to earn some respect. Bad Spy Racers, bad show >:( P.P.S. I really, REALLY should find a way to stop going on these rants and tangents. Padding reviews, even if unintentional, is no fun. *My DVD certainly seemed to think so because this short was conspicuously absent from the Fast & Furious special features menu but it was apparently on the Blu-ray. I feel hurt by this betrayal, Universal. Keep in mind this was before Hollywood actively started shaming anybody who doesn't own a device that can play Blu-ray discs by only giving those DVD-loving peasants a few crummy trailers, some deleted scenes and maybe a gag reel if you're lucky. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member This is a 'bridge' short to explain where Dom and Letty have been along with Hun and him knowing Dom. It also shows how he knows other characters that appear in the future. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member An interesting back-story previous to the events of Fast & Furious. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member I own this as a bonus feature on the Blu-Ray of: * Fast & Furious (2009) Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis The crew reunites in the Dominican Republic to break Leo Tego out of prison and hijack gas shipments.
      Director
      Vin Diesel
      Producer
      Josh Goldstein, T.J. Mancini, John Nguyen, Jalina Stewart, Thyrale Thai
      Screenwriter
      Vin Diesel, T.J. Mancini
      Genre
      Action, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Runtime
      20m