Fast & Furious (2009)

Fast Furious is the previous section of Fast Five.

Plot

Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his new crew; Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), Tego (Tego Calderón), Rico (Don Omar), Cara (Mirtha Michelle), and Han (Sung Kang), are hijacking fuel tankers in theDominican Republic. Dominic begins to suspect the trail is too hot and leaves Letty to go elsewhere to avoid being caught. In Panama City, Dominic gets a call from his sister, Mia (Jordana Brewster), who tells him that Letty has been murdered by Fenix (Laz Alonzo) 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, the man who ordered the fuel.

Meanwhile, F.B.I. agent Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) is trying to track down a drug dealer named Arturo Braga (John Ortiz). His search leads him to David Park. Dominic arrives at Park's apartment first and hangs him out of the window by his ankles before letting go. Brian, who was also on his way to Park's place, saves Park and Park becomes the FBI's new informant. Park gets Brian into a street race through Los Angeles; the winner will become the last driver on a team that traffics heroin between the United States-Mexico border. Brian selects a modified Nissan Skyline GT-R R34from 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 power as an FBI agent to arrest another driver, Dwight Mueller, and takes his place on the team.

The following day, the team meets one of the Braga's men. They drive across the border using underground tunnels to avoid detection. Brian had prior knowledge 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, Dom detonates his car with nitrous to distract Braga's men and Brian hijacks a Hummerwith US$60 million worth of heroin. Both Dom 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 finds out Brian was the last person to contact Letty which resulted in him being attacked by Dominic until he learnt Brian put Letty undercover for tracking down Braga so she could clear Dominic's name. 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, the man who claims to be Braga is a decoy and Campos, the real Braga, escapes and flees to Mexico.

Brian and Dominic travel to Mexico on their own to catch Braga. They find him at a church and apprehend him. 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 beingT-boned by Fenix at the end of the tunnel. Before Fenix can kill Brian, Dominic, who survived the explosion and exchanged his 1970 Dodge Charger with a 1973 Chevrolet Camaro, drives into and kills Fenix. As police and helicopters start streaming to the crash site on the U.S. side, Brian tells Dominic to 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. Dominic boards a prison bus that will take him to Lompoc penitentiary and as the bus drives down the road, Brian and Mia, along with Tego and Rico (who assisted in the Dominican Republic heists), arrive in their cars to intercept it. An animated sequence is played during the credits, in which Brian brakes in front of the bus causing it to flip, Dom escapes from the prison bus, and he is free, which is where Fast Five begins.

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 "Dom" 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.
• Michelle Rodriguez as Leticia "Letty" Ortiz, Dominic's girlfriend who lives with him in the Dominican Republic.
• Jordana Brewster as Mia Toretto, Dominic's younger sister.
• John Ortiz as Arturo Braga, A liaison for Braga's drug cartel, who recruits street racers to move heroin across the US-Mexican border.
• Laz Alonso as Fenix Calderon, Arturo Braga's henchman, drives 1972 Ford Gran Torino.
• Gal Gadot as Gisele, a liaison for Braga.
• Robert Miano as Ramon Campos
• Neil Brown Jr. as Malik Zon
• Jack Conley as Penning, head of FBI.
• Sung Kang as Han, street racer, a member of Dominic's crew that also appeared in Tokyo Drift.
• Don Omar as Rico Santos, a member of Dominic's crew.
• Tego Calderón as Tego Leo, a member of Dominic's crew.
• Mirtha Michelle as Cara Mirtha.
• 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.
• Anthony Gakuo as Choco.