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Since Point Break did not make a sequel, The Fast and the Furious rip-off remake is left with limited options to copy from in order to generate a second outing. Therefore, preschool level talents gathered whatever they had in mind & hand to cook up one of the worst instalments in the franchise, 2 Fast 2 Furious.

Even if you try to hold this film together firmly with both your hands, it will still crumble into pieces. That is how atrociously rotten this feature is! We do not deserve to sit through corny & immature acting, sexually-fuelled dialogues, purposeless accidents & crashes, bad graphics, shitty cinematography techniques and chintzy background score!

What do you mean, story and screenplay? If there's any, we could definitely talk about it. Common residents are able to lift up city bridges. Police seek the one outlaw who flipped on them years ago & assign him another task in exchange for his freedom. Yes, please believe it. Lead pairs could meet & interact almost instantly, just because. What's with the miserably filmed rat-torture clip? When you think about the villain's goals and plans, you'll begin to ask why couldn't have he done what he wanted to do with his readily available henchmen? The plot, the story, the very existence of this motion picture, if you could call this that, doesn't make a single sense!

Every sequence construction is very poor. You'll notice plenty of runtime elongation with intentionally lagged, awkward stays of scenes. This is done to fill up the runtime on behalf of the gapping script. Well, what could you expect for when there's no material to work on? Show some skin & hot babes laced within sexist, racist & sexual innuendos plus dialogues and pray hard audiences will love the end product. Even the car racing parts are boring! Plot wise, it's too foreseeable & banal!

There are one or maybe two chuckle-prompting humour. Tyrese Gibson as Roman Pearce is enjoyable, and it is his motivations that you could buy into. His attitude & presence solves the absence of Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto. Friendship between him & Brian O'Conner is okay, and it is thoughtful to connect the latter's action in the first film. But still, just another ramshackle justification. Their ground-hugging brawl fight is comical. 'Stare and drive' is nice. Certain checkpoint missions like retrieving the stash from Ferrari is watchable.