Fast & Furious (2009) on Netflix
Dominic Toretto returns to Los Angeles after Letty's murder, hunting those responsible. FBI agent Brian O'Conner hunts drug lord Arturo Braga, and both trails cross in the same racing scene.
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In the Dominican Republic, Dominic Toretto and his crew hijack fuel tankers, and when the police close in he leaves Letty behind rather than risk her being caught with him. Months later in Panama City, his sister Mia calls with news that Letty has been murdered. Dom slips back into Los Angeles, studies the crash site, and works a local mechanic for the name of the man who bought the nitromethane. Brian O'Conner, reinstated at the FBI, is trying to put a face to the drug lord Arturo Braga, whose people recruit street racers to run heroin over the Mexican border. Brian's search leads him to the same man.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Fast & Furious (2009)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Around 240 cars were built for the film in Southern California's San Fernando Valley, but the replicas did not match the real cars: the F-Bomb Camaro replica had a 300 hp crate V8 with a 3-speed automatic, while the actual car had a twin-turbo 1,500 hp engine and a 5-speed transmission.
- Fast & Furious was the first theatrical release to feature 4DX and D-BOX motion feedback technology, and the first film in the franchise produced by star Vin Diesel.
- The original 1970 Dodge Charger used in the first film was in pieces for restoration, so this film used a 1969 Dodge Charger R/T 426 Hemi with a modified front grille and rear taillights to look like a 1970 car.
- Visual effects supervisor Churchill said no real abandoned mine shafts existed to film the tunnel chase in, so the cars were shot as live-action and the tunnel environment was recreated in CGI.
- A blue Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 built for the film reached a 241-mile-per-hour top speed on Japan's Bayshore Route; it was so hard to build that clones were made from Nissan Skyline 25GTs, and the desert car was a dune buggy wearing a Skyline R34 shell.
- Fast & Furious surpassed The Lost World: Jurassic Park to set the biggest opening weekend ever for a Universal Pictures film at the time, and set records for the biggest April opening and the biggest car-themed opening, beating Cars ($60.1 million).
- It was the last film in the franchise to feature street racing, before the series moved into "more accessible action elements" with the heist film Fast Five in 2011.
