An average movie

The thing I love the most about this franchise is its convoluted history. Indeed, when the first movie was released, it was a surprise success and reached a cult status for the tuning afiocionados but was frankly despised by the rest. The 1st and 2nd sequels were disappointing and you'd thought that the franchise was slowly dying. But no! They brought back the original cast for the 4th installment and, against all expectations, it was a huge success and the 5th movie was even more successful. As a result, it has become one of the most successful movie franchises ever made and they are of course working now on the 9th installment. Who would have expected this 16 years ago when the first movie was released?!? This is a real Cinderella story and you have to give some credit to the makers who managed this. And the movie itself, the one which started it all, was it any good actually? Not really, I'm afraid... I mean, there were some decent action scenes, some cool cars, a few chicks but that's barely enough for me to get entertained, I'm sorry. I watched it back then when it was still a cult flick and not yet a blockbuster franchise and I could see the appeal but, personally, I thought it was pretty damned average. To conclude, I didn't really like it and I don't think it is really worth a look.

5/10