Fast And The Furious, The

RATING: PG-13

STARRING: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Ridriguez, Jordana Brewster, Rick Yune, Matt Schulze, Chad Lindberg, Ted Levine, and Ja Rule

DIRECTOR: Rob Cohen

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal Pictures

GENRE: Drama

INTENDED AUDIENCE: Teenagers and adults

SUMMARY: In The Fast and the Furious, Paul Walker plays Brian, an undercover policeman investigating a series of truck hijackings. The investigation leads him to the illegal world of high-performance street racing. He joins this subculture by getting chummy with the sister of one of his prime suspects, Dominic, played by the charismatic Vin Diesel. Brian, however, begins to bond not only with Mia but also with Dominic. As the pressure to wrap up the hijacking case intensifies, Brian must decide where his loyalties lie and what his limits really are.

The Fast and the Furious condones, if not glamorizes, reckless, dangerous driving and casual premarital sexuality. Although slickly photographed, it also has an overcomplicated, formulaic, sometimes hokey script The film also contains plenty of foul language, brief nudity and a shot where two women kiss passionately at a party. Because these things encourage immoral imitative behavior among young people, concerned parents should therefore be extremely wary.

CONTENT Romantic worldview with pagan elements that condones, if not glamorizes, dangerous driving, pre-marital sexuality and two women kissing passionately, with some moral and redemptive elements, including one of the two main characters, who wears a crucifix, later receives mercy instead of justice because of mitigating circumstances and other possible and Christian reasons; 48 obscenities, 5 strong profanities and 2 mild profanities; plenty of action violence, such as car crashes, car racing (most of it illegal), car chases, gunfire, man murdered, man punched and forced to swallow oil, and two scenes of implied fornication; brief upper female nudity and women wear sexy, revealing clothes; alcohol use; smoking; and pagan partying glamorized, an apparently existentialist definition of freedom, and vigilante action rebuked.

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