Fast & Furious is a 2009 American street racing action film directed by Justin Lin. It is the fourth film in The Fast and the Furious film series and the third installment in terms of chronology. The plot connects with the original film of the series from which Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, and Jordana Brewster reprise their roles.[2][3] The film was directed by Justin Lin, who also directed the third and fifth installments of the series, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift and Fast Five. It is also the first film in the series to give more emphasis to American built muscle cars than imported cars.
Five years after the Los Angeles events, Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his new crew: Leticia "Letty" Ortiz (Michelle Rodriguez), Leo Tego (Tego Calderón), Omar Santos (Don Omar), Cara Mirtha (Mirtha Michelle) and Han Seoul-Oh (Sung Kang), are hijacking fuel tankers of the road train in the Dominican Republic due to his old crew with Leon disappearing, Jesse (killed by Johnny Tran), Vince (got wounded and escaped in South America, now in Rio) and Letty, who he found recently, already disbanded from the first movie. After the successful heist, Dominic begins to suspect the trail is too hot for him, and leaves Letty in the middle of the night and he leaves to avoid being caught. Some time later, In Panama City, Dominic is fixing his 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle and he gets a call from his sister, Mia Toretto (Jordana Brewster), who tells him that Letty has been murdered after getting into a near fatal car accident. Dominic heads back to Los Angeles to examine Letty's crash and finds traces of nitromethane. He then goes to the only car mechanic that uses nitromethane and coerces him into giving him the name David Park (Ron Yuan), the man who ordered the fuel.
Plot
Meanwhile, F.B.I. agent Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) is trying to track down a drug dealer named Arturo Braga. He chases the man through city streets, capturing him, and forcing him to tell the name. Ironically, it's David Park. Due to his street racing rep and knowledge, he seizes the search on the cars of all of David Parks, and he finds the person with a illegally modified Nissan Silvia. Knowing that this is the right one, he arrives at his apartment. Dominic arrives at Park's apartment first and hangs him out of the window by his ankles before letting go. Brian saves Park, but Dominic escapes. Park becomes the FBI's new informant in exchange for the immunity. Park gets Brian into a street race through Los Angeles organized by Ramon Campos (John Ortiz) Braga's right hand. The winner will become the last driver on a team that traffics heroin between the United States-Mexico border. Brian selects a Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 modified for better drifts due to RWD using from the Impound Lot. Dominic also shows up to race in his modified 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle. Dominic wins by bumping Brian's car, making him lose control. Brian uses his position as an FBI agent to arrest another driver, Dwight Mueller (Greg Cipes), and takes his place on the team.
The following day, the team meets with Gisele Yashar (Gal Gadot) one of Braga's men. They drive across the border using underground tunnels to avoid detection, where they meet Fenix Calderon (Laz Alonzo), one of Braga's henchmen. Brian had prior knowledge from the last sent agents that after the heroin was delivered, Braga ordered the drivers to be killed. However it was revealed to Dominic from Fenix that he killed Letty and after a tense stand-off, Dominic detonates his car with nitrous to distract Braga's men and Brian hijacks a Hummer with US$60 million worth of heroin. Both Dominic and Brian drive back to Los Angeles and hide the heroin in a police impound lot where Brian picks up a modified Subaru Impreza WRX STI. Later on, Dominic searches Letty's stuff and discovers her phone. He recalls the last number, revealed to be Brian's number and he realises Brian was the last person to contact her and that he placed her for Braga's driver. This angers Dominic, and attacks him until he learned Brian put Letty undercover for tracking down Braga so she could clear Dominic's name, so he could return back to Los Angeles, and so they could settle up. Brian tells his superiors that in exchange for Dominic's pardon, he will lure Braga into a trap, forcing him to personally show up to exchange money for the heroin. At the drop site, however, is revealed that the man who claims to be Braga (Robert Miano) is a decoy and Campos is the real Braga, who escapes and flees toMexico. Dominic fixes his 1970 Dodge Charger and Brian upgrades his Subaru. Brian visits Dom and tells him he is going with him, with Dom saying "I don't plan to bring anyone back.", with the meaning that if Brian leaves with Dom, he cannot return to his life as a cop anymore. He replies "I know.". He spots Mia returning from the store, and he follows her. They rekindle their relationship. That night, Dom and Brian leave Los Angeles.
Brian and Dominic travel to Mexico on their own to catch Braga. Gisele meets with Dom, giving him the spot where he is, as a exchange for saving her life. They find him at a church. Braga mocks Dom that he will shoot him in a church, and he is no hero, just like him. Dom decides that he would take him back to US so he can be arrested, but with replying that Fenix is his.. As Braga's henchmen come down to rescue their leader, Brian and Dominic drive through the underground tunnels back to the United States. When some of Braga's men are killed, Brian crashes his car and is injured after being T-boned by Fenix at the end of the tunnel. Before Fenix can kill Brian, Dominic, who survived the explosion and exchanged his car with a 1973 Chevrolet Camaro, drives into. Fenix tries to run, but Brian holds him at his leg and Dominic crashes him on the car, killing him. As police and helicopters start streaming to the crash site on the U.S. side, Brian tells Dominic that he must leave, but Dominic refuses, saying he's tired of running. Despite Brian's request for clemency, the judge sentences Dominic to 25 years to life in the Lompoc penitentiary.
Dom boards the prison bus, and as it drives away, Brian and Mia, along with Leo and Santos arrive, with Brian in fixed Dom's Charger, Mia in her Acura NSX-T, and Leo and Santos in their Pontiac Trans Am, intercepting the bus.
Cast
Main article: List of The Fast and the Furious characters
- Paul Walker as Brian O'Conner, a former police officer, auto mechanic and elite street racer. Brian is now an FBI agent on the trail of the Mexican drug lord Arturo Braga. He drives a Subaru Impreza WRX STI.
- Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto, an auto mechanic, ex-convict, and elite street racer from the United States. Dominic is wanted for committing numerous semi-truck hijackings. At the beginning of the film, he is living in the Dominican Republic and drives a black Buick Grand National to hijack fuel trucks.[4]
- Michelle Rodriguez as Leticia Ortiz, Dominic's girlfriend who lives with him in the Dominican Republic.
- Jordana Brewster as Mia Toretto, Dominic's younger sister and Brian's former girlfriend.
- Sung Kang as Han Seoul-Oh, a street racer and member of Dominic's crew, who also appeared in Tokyo Drift.
- John Ortiz as Arturo Braga, a power drug lord who wants drivers to smuggle heroin across the USA/Mexico Border.
- Laz Alonso as Fenix Calderon, Arturo Braga's henchman, drives a 1972 Ford Gran Torino.
- Gal Gadot as Gisele Yashar, a liaison for Braga.
- Robert Miano as Ramon Campos, Braga's double.
- Neil Brown Jr. as Malik Herzon.
- Jack Conley as Penning, head of FBI.
- Don Omar as Omar Santos, a member of Dominic's crew.
- Tego Calderón as Leo Tego, a member of Dominic's crew.
- Mirtha Michelle as Cara Mirtha, a member of Dominic's crew and Han's girlfriend.
- Ron Yuan as David Park.
- Greg Cipes as Dwight Mueller, Braga's Camaro driver.
- Brandon T. Jackson as Braga's BMW driver.
- Mousa Kraish as Braga's Silvia driver.
- Shea Whigham as Ben Stasiak, FBI agent.
- Liza Lapira as Sophie Trinh, FBI agent.
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