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Fast & Furious (2009) - 12 corrections

Directed by Justin Lin (add more)

Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

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In the last stretch of the "qualifiers" street race, the GPS-voice indicates finish is at one quarter of a mile. With both cars presumably already at top speed and then using the boosters, it still takes them forever to reach the point where they collide, which is still about a hundred yards from the finish line. Even though it can be argued the quarter mile isn't shown in real time, too many things happen for too long for it to take place in that distance. [If you mean forever taking about ten seconds. In fact the cars were not at top speed, as they were shown at about 100 kmh by Brian's speedo just before the boost was hit. A car going 60 mph (approx 98 kmh) running start takes 15 seconds to run a quarter mile. From the time 1/4 mile is announced to the time Brian is taken out of the race is about 20 seconds. The flashing back between Dom and Brian happens concurrently, so we can easily knock a few seconds off that time. Banging the cars together is going to scrub off some speed as well. Dom is shown approaching the finish line with Brian spun out in the background at about 3 semi-truck /trailer units from the finish line which is at most 210 feet. As the race is not completely real time, with the alternating shots between Dom and Brian, the 20 seconds or so it takes to travel the 1/4 mile is not far off what is shown in the movie, and can't be considered a mistake.]
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During the opening chase scene, Dom's Grand National starts with an all-black grille, then it's chrome, then goes back to all-black. [There are a few shots where the very glossy black paint reflects a lot of sunlight, but after checking the entire chase scene frame-by-frame, there is no shot anywhere of the Buick with a chrome grille nor grille frame.]
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Throughout the first half of the movie the focus is to locate and find David Park. It is believed this will lead them to Bragga and they can arrest him. However, later in the movie it is revealed that Letty was working with the FBI and was killed running drugs for Bragga. This means that the whole storyline to find Park was useless because they already knew how to get people inside. [Letty was shown at the beginning of the movie during the FBI meeting as one of the agents killed by Braga. Brian noticed her photo immediately. It was also revealed at this meeting that none of the agents had gotten close enough to Braga to make an arrest. They knew how to get people inside, but had difficulty getting anyone close enough to him.]
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Near the end, when Brian launches out of the tunnel to kill the bad guy, the Subaru Impreza STI he is driving flips. As it flips over you can see the undercarriage and both the drive shaft and gas tank are gone, as well as swaybars and other suspension parts. [By the time you can see the undercarriage due to the dust and the camera angles, the car has rolled about 6 1/2 times, all the while we can see parts flying off the car. It is not inconceivable the tank and driveshaft et al broke and flew off during the crash.]
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Paul Walker is told of a 240SX with an illegal mod. You then see it is an S15. There was never an S15 240SX. It is a Japanese spec 200SX, chassis code S15. [This is a character mistake, not a movie mistake; people, even those in law enforcement, don't always get something like the model name of a car correct every time; it's only human.]
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When the first chase starts and they disconnect the trailer from the rest, the truck would stop in real life. Since they have air brakes, the air would leak out and brakes would lock up - on all the trailers and the trucks. [No, only the trailer would stop. There is a tractor protection valve that stops the air from leaking out of the tractor when the gladhands are disconnected, and the trailer supply air is going through the airlines.]
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In the last chase scene, Dom is being chased by bad guys. He is about to crash, and so he hijacks a Camaro to save himself. The Dodge Charger is then blown up upon impact. Then, when Dom is being transported on the prison bus, Brian is driving the same exact Charger. How did the Charger get fixed in such a short amount of time, let alone from being blown to pieces? [First of all, this is not necessarily immediately after that chase scene - trials usually take some time to get underway. Second, it's entirely concievable that this could be another Charger.]
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When the Subaru Impreza WRX that Bryan is driving rolls over at the end of the tunnel, it can be seen that the car is a dummy. It doesn't have any exhaust system or crankshaft for the rear wheels. [Rear wheels don't have crankshafts, engines do. The WRX is all wheel drive, and popular in rally racing. There are skid plates available to cover the underside of the car to prevent damage while rallying, in which case, very little of the mechanical components would be seen.]
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When surrounded by the 'bad guys', Toretto fills his car full of nitrous oxide and pops in the cigarette lighter before getting out of the car. Car then explodes when the lighter pops out and creates a spark. Why? Nitrous oxide isn't an explosive gas. It only gives engines more power by releasing oxygen during the internal combustion process. The car would not explode in real life if it were full of Nos. [It is explosive when introduced to heat, and the cigarette lighter is hot enough to start the chain reaction, especially if the concentration of gas in the cabin (where the NOS bottles are) is sufficient.]
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The Dodge Charger R/T explodes inside the tunnels with Letty's cross. But at the end, Bryan is driving it to rescue Toretto. The car is in pristine condition and even has Letty's cross in the rear view mirror. [The car is also wrecked at the end of The Fast and the Furious. There is nothing to say they couldn't have restored it as we don't know how long after the explosion it is that Dom is being driven to the prison. We see him reach for something before getting out of the car - most likely the cross.]
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When they leave the mountain after crossing the border, they leave driving between mountains to escape the helicopter. When Paul Walker is driving towards it at the end of the movie, the escape route mountain cover isn't there. Mountain disappears. [As the drug lord Arturo Braga says himself, there is more than 1 tunnel. So they could have used a second tunnel not by the mountain.]
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"Fast and Furious" [4th film] takes place after "The Fast & the Furious" and before "2 Fast 2 Furious. However in the film the R35 Nissan Skyline exists, which in that time shouldn't have been made yet. Time Paradox? [Fast and Furious doesn't take place before 2 Fast 2 Furious. The opening sequence takes place before Tokyo Drift, the rest takes place in 2009.]
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