YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME................
from moviehole:
Well, ya see, Mia re-enters the picture on less than pleasant circumstances. Seems a certain lover of her brother’s [from the first film] may have –literally – crashed and burned (Michelle Rodriguez should really learn to put the bottle down when she’s cruising at such speeds), and Mia’s been asked to deliver her precious car to him (awwww).
Mia, of course, fell in love with undercover agent Brian (
Paul Walker) in the first film. She reunites with him here, if only to ask ‘Why did you let my brother go?’
By letting Dominic go [at the end of the first picture], Brian’s got himself into some knee-high shit soup. When the film begins, the young agent has been doing time - after the authorities discovered the truth about Dom’s disappearance, and the part Brian played in that.
In a sort-of twist on “
The Rock” – or even Walker’s recent film, “Bobby Z” – Brian makes a deal with the authorities. He’ll help stop a crime boss known as Braga, whose importing heroin (with the assistance of some hot-car driving bad-asses, of course), if they uncuff him. With the assistance of an informant named James Park (who Dominic was also after - - -- it’s at his pad that Brian and Dom reunite, I believe), Brian wins a spot on a street race that Braga’s number.1 man, Jorge Campos is going to be at. He makes friends with Campos (and therefore Braga); wins a spot on his tag-team (importing heroin) and gets Dominic a gig too.
Just one other thing Brian wants from the authorities: “we get Braga, we let [Dominic] Toretto walk”.
Like the first film, this one’s very reminiscent of “Point Break” – and the writers
know it. In one scene, they even write it into the script, that a foot chase in Chinatown is very “Point Break” like.
Whoever thought filmmakers would be using “Point Break” as the golden temple at which they should all bow?
