Once you embrace the stupidity, these movies get a lot more enjoyable. I'm not saying you should live there, but visiting the Land of Ridiculousness every once in a while can be refreshing, like giving your brain a nap.Brian O'Connor (Paul Walker) is no longer a police officer after what happened in The Fast and the Furious. He now lives in Miami, racing cars and working in a shop owned by Tej (Ludacris). U.S. Customs pulls him back and threatens to prosecute him unless he helps them with a job: drug kingpin Carter Verone (Cole Hauser) is looking for a couple of fast drivers to help him move his dirty money. The feds know this because they have an undercover agent close to Verone, Monica Fuentes (Eva Mendes). O'Connor agrees, but requests that he be able to bring his childhood friend, Roman Pierce (Tyrese Gibson) along.
There are more cars and more macho posturing, as well as another sub-plot about what it means to be true friends or something but none of that really matters. This was much more of an action/heist movie as opposed to just car racing. I, for one, found that a welcome change. This series has managed to gain respectability through its franchise, which is the opposite of pretty much every other movie series. That is impressive and for that, I will continue watching.
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