![]() ![]() Vin Diesel’s anti-hero is neatly balanced by Paul Walker’s Brian O’Conner, a blond, hungry wannabe racer who boyishly challenges cock-of-the-walk Dominic to a race in the movie’s early moments. “I live my life a quarter-mile at a time,” he intones. Part existential rebel, part grease monkey, he’s a superhero to the race-car set. The dominating figure in this movie is Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto, a perfect throwback to those iconographic American anti-heroes Jack Nicholson played in his early years. The entire cast is entirely too good-looking, but who wants to see the toothless meatballs who really participate in Los Angeles’ import-car street racing scene? These guys have spent too much time in the gym to have possibly put in the kind of wrench time into fine-tuning their computer-controlled, fuel-injected bullet cars. ![]() Yet if the running commentary by teen girls about the physical attributes of its male stars at the press screening is any barometer, The Fast and the Furious has hot goods for women, too. ![]() The question is not will this be a hit for Universal, but how big? Its natural audience is males of virtually all ages, especially 14-30. ![]()
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