By any honest accounting, the film is a foundational document of Hollywood's 21st century. It arrived in 2001 carrying the DNA of a heist film, the skeleton of a western, the musculature of a B-series action picture, and the beating heart of something else entirely: a film about honor and brotherhood, somehow a deep analysis of masculine relationships; about the strange tenderness that men are sometimes only able to express through the shared worship of internal combustion engines. From this unlikely combination, it spawned a franchise that has not merely survived but expanded, sequel by sequel, into the largest and most improbable mythology that Hollywood has produced in the modern era.
— Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal (MUBI)
Synopsis: Dominic Toretto is a Los Angeles street racer suspected of masterminding a series of big-rig hijackings. When undercover cop Brian O'Conner infiltrates Toretto's iconoclastic crew, he falls for Toretto's sister and must choose a side: the gang or the LAPD.