Fast & Furious 1-9 Film Collection [DVD] [2021]

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The sticker on my DVD left an ink stain of the code on the front of my slipcover, but it rubbed away pretty easily.

This newest iteration gets points for including ALL of the existing extras, but the material is still only okay instead of great, and the transfer is just plain obsolete. The DVD refers to them as "extended", but that just means they're additions to scenes that made it into the movie.

The films focus on heists, street racing, and spies, engrossing a generation of cinema-goers in its unmatched depiction of modern action tropes, with an underlying motif relating to the bond of family.

Occasionally, detail and clarity are pretty high, but the film is awash in a compressed haze most of the time. Synopsis: Disc 1: Los Angeles police officer Brian O'Connor must decide where his loyalties really lie when he becomes enamoured with the street racing world he has been sent undercover to destroy.With his superiors on his back (including Ted Levine) and Dominic's best friend (Matt Schulze) getting suspicious, Brian's forced to choose between the law and his loyalty to Dom before his increasingly personal ties to the case blow everything.

Unfortunately, Brian finds himself intrigued by Dominic's skills and sense of family, and even more interested in Dominic's sister Mia (Jordana Brewster). The movie doesn't really do anything with all that diversity, but rest assured that the mixed-race flavor of the street-racing scene hasn't had Hollywood White-Out applied. Audio commentary with director Cohen is included, which doesn't add a lot (mostly explaining that they were cut for time or pacing). Lastly, we have the same Paul Walker Public Service Announcement (0:39) that plays before the film on disc 1 (no explanation for why it's included twice), and trailers for the Riddick and Wanted games, and the Back to the Future trilogy re-releases.Similarly, if there's anything The Fast and the Furious might not get enough credit for, it's having a wide-spanning, multi-cultural cast that it even appears to respect. When a crime brings them both back to LA, fugitive ex-con Dominic Toretto (Diesel) reignites his feud with agent Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker). On the whole, it looks alright, and some viewers won't even notice (it probably looked good on tube TVs of 2001), but given that these are meant to be brand-new "Limited Editions", it's a huge strike against them that Universal decided this very old transfer was good enough. During the film's big truck sequence near the end, the final moment features a roof-grabbing bit of business a current movie wouldn't have even tried, and it makes the scene just that much better.