Fast and Furious 4 Trailers
Consider the original Fast and Furious. The first mega-hit for stars Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, the film pushed them towards careers as solo leads in similarly action-oriented fare.
Walker still returned for Fast and Furious 2 (another hit) but skipped the third outing, whereas Diesel hasn’t been in the franchise since the first film.
Both went on to have middling to poor careers as leads in actioners. Diesel scored with XXX but watched A Man Apart flop and Chronicles of Riddick underperform. He finally had to pull a move, similar to the Rock, and star in a family friendly pic (The Pacifier) to give his career some life support. His most recent stateside released actioner Babylon A.D. also flopped.
Meanwhile, Walker also starred in some major action-y flops. Timelime flopped, as did Into the Blue and Running Scared. Much like Diesel, he needed a family film to give himself career traction, and starred in Eight Below.
So now, with the series most recent installment (Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift) underperforming stateside, Diesel and Walker have returned. One wonders if they themselves had to lobby a bit to even be in the movie, considering the swan dive their careers as action leads have taken.
It certainly is a circular arc for these two, made into big-timers because of a series but now with careers stunk up so bad they are ready to return.
But on the plus side for them, the trailers so far actually don’t look half bad (if you ignore everything but the action).
First there was the teaser trailer, which was almost entirely free of dialogue (smart move) and showcased a car heist sequence any action movie would be pleased to have in its arsenal.
Say what you will about the Fast and Furious series, but this is good action work.
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809989992/video/11537903
And just recently Yahoo put up a new trailer.
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809989992/video/11537903
The new trailer wisely starts without dialogue as well, if ever there’s a movie that would play better as a silent film this is it. Of course once they start talking it sounds idiotic and trashy, but no one is seeing this movie for its plotting and character development, are they?
The actual chase scene that starts out the trailer is very impressive stunt work, and fun to watch. That’s pretty much all they’re going for with this movie anyway.
If Fast and Furious delivers a number of killer action set-pieces and isn’t insultingly idiotic with the actual dialogue/plot, it could find a major audience.
Walker and Diesel could use the hit. Then maybe in five years they’ll reappear in Fast and Furious 8.
-Dan Benamor