Eye Candy #339 - "Fast and Furious"

Fast and Furious:  It’s sad when someone can call this particular series of films “venerable” as the original spawned not 1, but 3 mediocre sequels that appeal mostly to that young male set who like cars doing exotic and darn-near-impossible feats with the help of Hollywood wizardry.  Back again for the first time in a role that helped make him a star, Vin Diesel, has returned as Dom Toretto, professional street racer and minor thief.  Oh, and Paul Walker is here again too, since lord knows his career hasn’t really skyrocketed either.  This time Toretto is out for revenge, to find the killers of one of his crew, Letty  (played all too briefly again by Michelle Rodriguez).  Insert souped-up automobiles here, as we get a ludicrous plot involving drug runners who use street racers to take drugs across the border and of course, they only want the fastest and the best.  Now, I haven’t even seen all 4 of these movies, but it’s certainly worse than 1 or 3.  The action set pieces are just silly, including some of the silliest mine runs this side of “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”.  Good news is I had exceedingly low expectations to begin with (there is only so much mileage you can get out of a plot that shallow, pun intended).  Woodchuck sez, “Skip it.”