Fast & Furious

When is a sequel not a sequel? In the case of Fast & Furious it is when the sequel is set between the second and third films in the series. Follow?
Well, the fourth film in the franchise starting with The Fast And The Furious is set before the Tokyo Drift film and reunites the four main stars of the first movie.
Brian O'Connor (Paul Walker) has been given a second chance with the FBI in LA and he happens upon Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) while searching for a drug importer, who just happens to have been involved in the death of Dom's gal Letty (Michelle Rodriguez).
For some reason I really got into this series from the first film, I thought the second was awesome while Tokyo Drift was good but not great. There are the spectacular and impossibly unrealistic car chase and race sequences but where I think this suffers against the first two is that they tried to cram too much storyline into the movie.
I know that's a weird criticism to make but this series is all about the cars, the chases, the crashes and the conflict. The story is secondary.
Having said that it is hard not to enjoy what is there, and basically if you liked the original then this sequel, call it The Fast And The Furious 2.5, is worth a watch.
A 7 out of 10.