This review contains spoilers.Fast & Furious or Fast & Furious 4 is the fourth installment to The Fast & Furious franchise. The movie is a sequel to The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift but is more of a direct sequel to 2 Fast 2 Furious. The movie features Paul Walker and Vin Diesel as they reprise their roles of Brian O'Conner and Dominic Toretto respectively. The crew from the first movie confront a drug lord called Braga that wrongs both Dominic and Brian.The plot of this movie is incredibly incomprehensible. Many events in the plot simply happen without any reason or the flimsiest of reasoning. This movie's plot is an excuse to show car chases. The story keeps up the action at the expense of the plot. An example of this is in one car race, Brian is knocked out of the race. He is able to use his FBI connections to re-unite with Dominic Toretto by taking another person's place. The other characters and even the villain simply accept this and allow it to happen.The main story of Letty's murder is not well done. This story feels incredibly flimsy and the audience does not even see the murder happen. It is simply in a flashback scene that is told. I understand that the movie wanted to use this event as the reason for Dominic Toretto's mission but it felt incredibly forced.The finale of the movie improves the rest of the movie. With an explosive finale and the story being wrapped up, the movie concludes in a satisfying way. This movie did set up the rest of the series well and this can be considered this installment's strength. I did look forward to the other future installments because of this movie. The movie ends with the crew assembling and busting Dom out of a prison truck.I do not recommend Fast & Furious. This movie's plot is a jumbled mess. The only redeeming factor for this movie is its place for the rest of the series.

With a few meandering and unproductive features, 'Fast & Furious' takes the series to new grounds. Bringing back familiar faces but finally implementing some much needed emotional depth, the fourth installment was the best of the franchise to that date.Back after a short hiatus are Vin Diesel and Paul Walker playing Dom Toretto and Brian O'Connor respectively. Not that the previous two films were entirely pointless, but Dom and Brian are the heart of the films. Without them, you don't get the same feeling of family and meaningful relationships. 'Fast & Furious' may not feature the high-octane stunts and action that its successors do, but it brought the series back to being about family, and particularly the drama that sometimes goes on between family. O'Connor is miraculously back to being an FBI agent after betraying their trust multiple times in the past, but with this series that type of stuff doesn't matter. Toretto is on the run once again since he went missing following the events of the first film. As ridiculous as it is to see Brian once again after Dom, I feel like it was the one last obstacle these two needed before they gained back each other's trust. Once they do, the film takes off. I love all the tension between Brian, Dom, and Mia, especially knowing where all of them end up. But I also love watching the cast drive insanely fast cars at ridiculous speeds and wreck every bit of them. The fourth film still tries to tell a lame undercover racing/drug/crime story with its villain, but the rest of it is a hell of a ride.The supporting cast includes the likes of Michelle Rodriguez, Gal Gadot, Sung Kang, Jordana Brewster, and John Ortiz. The latter plays the villainous Campos and probably has the most depth and/or personality out of any previous F&F antagonist. Rodriguez is back as Letty, who's death (being a central plot line to the film) is probably the most complicated and convoluted death I've ever seen from any franchise, and I'm still not sure I know exactly what happened.Overall, Fast & Furious progressed the series back to its Toretto vs O'Connor roots, but managed to finally give us the balance of emotion and action that we've wanted. It also happens to be the film that set up what is now more of a heist franchise than it is full of big muscles and muscle cars.+Dom & Brian+Finally balances emotion and action+Supporting cast is written and acted very well-Letty's death & Brian's time with the FBI is still puzzling8.2/10

In this 4th installment of the franchise I give it 6 stars because as I'm sitting here watching this I'm wondering, why? For some reason this one wasn't all that exciting to me. yes the guys were back together again(Toretto & Brian), here was plenty of action but the stunts in this installment were to stunt like. From the window stunt, car exchange, things like that were OK I guess. But now I'm looking at this and I'm wondering like how can they make this better. I'm a rue believer in when you make a great film unless there is an continuation of the movie there shouldn't be any more added to me it only cheapens the brand. Tokyo Drift was OK because it kind of added or introduced something fresh(the drifting) to the franchise. I also see that in this one the original director was back on board. I'm not understanding how Hanz came back in this installment ... I thought it was much later on in the franchise but anyhow. That's it for this one. Oh but I will say that the installments that came later with the Rock did or was better than 4 ... OK now I'm off to watch the 5th installment, I don't quite remember what it was about but I will find out soon enough. Fast five is what they called it. lol

Fast & Furious 4 teams up everyone from the original film and some new faces like Gal Gadot (Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice). Fast & Furious 4 is what you saw from the previous 3 films action, car chases, hot chicks, one liners and so on. The Fast & Furious series is not something that is going to win any Oscars for Best Picture or anything but it's still a very well made franchise that knows it's fans and what they want. Just by the ending of this movie you understand that they were aiming for a fifth movie also and aww boy did they became much much better? Verdict: Fast & Furious 4 will be loved by it's fans and hated by it's haters.