At first, Dominic Toretto is hiding from the police in Dominican Republic, but after the fuel truck robbery he is hunted even there as he becomes an international criminal. As a result, he finds his team separated as they have to disappear for some time. Letty refuses to move to another country no matter how Dom tries to convince her. Soon he finds out about her death. Trying to find the ones who might have killed her, he finds himself working for a secret person who is being chased by Brian O'Connor, the agent of the FBI.
As hard as it is to believe, having the old gang back really does make a big difference, just not big enough. Lin isn't the director to offer anything new enough to make Fast & Furious worth your time unless you're a hardcore fan of the series.
Provided a cinematic equivalent of NOS to the franchise with a tone shift that helped make it one of the most popular and profitable action series in the last decade.
The stars look bored out of their minds when the fourth episode of the franchise stalls between racing sequences, which is all too often in a flick where 106 minutes speed by in what feels like at least four hours.
People who want nothing more out of a movie than an extended rap video -- there's lots of hip-hop, close-ups of cars, and women in shiny tiny shorts -- may be satisfied. But this movie isn't much more than a re-do of the first film in the series.