This drifter is not exactly what I had in mind or to put it mildly, I just was not in the frame of mind for a such. Nor will I ever for that matter. Meaning, I prefer a summer-breeze drifter cruise down French coast or a Sport Utility Vehicle drifter which I had myself already without films or reality shows of this kind. Walker is dreadful even for Johnny handsome and Vin Diesel is completely cancelled due to his nonsense of prefering an erased Beyonce's shape and an erased musical opus.

This review contains spoilers.2 Fast and 2 Furious is the sequel to The Fast and the Furious. The movie stars Paul Walker as Brian O'Conner as he works with the FBI to clear his name after the events of the first movie. Brian partners with Roman Pearce, played by Tyrese Gibson as the two work to bring down a criminal drug lord.Even more so in the sequel, the plot is an excuse to have car race and car chases. This plot absolutely requires the audience to turn off their brain in order to enjoy the action. The quiet scenes do not build on each other and the movie offers these as a weak excuse to have car chases and car races. Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto is missing in this movie. The movie suffers as a result of his absence. The missing pieces are picked up by Paul Walker and Tyrese Gibson's chemistry on screen but not completely. These two characters and actors look like they are having a lot of fun on the screen. This translates to the movie well. However, this is not enough to hold up the quiet parts of the movie.The action in this movie is good but it fails to have any story weight behind it. I am hard pressed to find any fulfilling action scenes in the movie.2 Fast 2 Furious is not a good movie. It can be entertaining for its action, but audiences looking for a completely movie should look elsewhere.

The most glaring negative to "2 Fast 2 Furious" is it's incredible back pedaling on any sense of danger and excitement with a story that underwhelms to a huge degree. What before felt much more grand, here feels like a cheap 90s cop TV show. Almost everything that shined in the first film fails here.At the top of the list is the worthless and limp Cole Hauser as Miami's resident "bad guy" whose entire posse of henchmen appears to be two equally terrible Cuban drones. Why the writers would narrow this story to such an empty villain is beyond me. To top it off we have to deal with the FBI and the returning Thom Barry (Bilkins) who seriously doesn't even seem to show up for work. I kept wondering where he was looking when he was talking. Can we work on eye lines please?? Some seriously amateur acting there.As usual Eva Mendes thrills with her sexy, sultry appearance but falls flat with a vacuous almost non-existent performance. She has cornered the market on gorgeous yet empty actresses who excel in Hollywood. I think a career is modeling might do her much better. Just keep her mouth shut.Paul Walker, as the apparent protagonist to the series, fairs better but not much than anyone else. He looks good in the part as he did in the first film and carries himself well, especially in the driving scenes. Sadly and painfully though the writers and director somehow decided that the majority of the cast would speak ebonics/street in this film. Now, if it felt natural I would buy it, but when you force someone like Paul Walker into using phrases like "cuz" and "kick it" it comes off as incredibly fake and corny as if someone was trying to speak in a fake British Accent and could say nothing but "Bloody Hell, Govna, I am bloody British". SHUD UP !! Sorry, Paul Walker does not normally speak this way and his character Brian shouldn't either. I had a number of eye-roll moments dealing with Walker's onset of slang, cuz.On the positive side and one of the only things I did enjoy about the film was Tyrese Gibson as Roman. I think we got more of him than we did of his character. Every other word out of his mouth was "bra". It got annoying at times, but ultimately his performance came off as fun. At times I had some laugh out loud moments at his reactions and quips. The same type of stuff from Walker would have been hideous, but from Gibson it worked out fine.Going in to the film I knew it was directed by John Singleton who I have had great respect for in the past. "Boyz n the Hood" is a brilliant and powerful film. I also enjoyed "Poetic Justice" and "Higher Learning". I had a certain expectation about him as a Director that I thought would add to this series, but sadly it did not. Compared to the stylistic and impressive camera work and visual effects in the first film "2 Fast 2 Furious" really falls down a rung. The effects during the races/chases you would expect to improve but here seem much more "low budget" and animated. It almost at times seemed more like the over the top cartoon like antics of the Washowski's "Speed Racer" than another Fast and the Furious film. (Yes, I know this was before "Speed Racer", but I am simply drawing a comparison).There are fun smaller roles for Ludicrous (Tej) and the spicy little Devon Aoki (Suki) but they do not get much play here. Sadly, the local Miami racing circuit stuff at the beginning of the film was much more fun and interesting than the majority of the film with Cole Hauser and his dumb-ass sidekicks. I could even see a TV series around the antics of a team like this sans Paul Walker and all of his character's baggage. When Ludicrous is more fun and interesting than your main character you might want to do some damn re-writing.In the end, while there is promise here, I think the main plot / story is an un-interesting mess. It's just boring. Who cares. Keep the story more to the streets where it shines and away from FBI informants as hot as Eva Mendes. It's just dumb. While I respect John Singleton I do not think this was a good match for his skill set. Maybe the film was rushed, I don't know, but it is well below his capabilities in my opinion.

Brian O'Connor (Paul Walker) returns for another adventure of fast cars and undercover policing. Brian has gone on the run from the police in Miami beating other street racers in competitions hosted by Tej (Ludacris) when he is apprehended and forced to work with Monica Fuentes (Eva Mendes) if he wants to stay out of trouble. Unimpressed with the partner Agent Bilkins (Thom Barry) assigns to him, he suggests his old partner in crime Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson) accompany him on the sting. The two racers are put into a fierce competition to impress the crime lord Carter Verone (Cole Hauser) and win his trust.For what this sequel lacks in quality, it makes up for with color and new insane driving stunts as Brian swerves around in his lime green car going backward on the highway to beat the other criminals competing for the job. When the cops show up, Roman fires at them and Brian discovers that their cars have tracking devices on them. They make it back to Verone to win themselves a job, despite Roman's tendency to rub people the wrong way. Check out more of this review and others at swilliky.com