When Dominic
"Dom" Toretto (Vin Diesel) is being transported to Lompoc prison by
bus, his sister Mia Toretto (Jordana Brewster) and friend Brian O'Conner (Paul
Walker) lead an assault on the bus, causing it to crash, freeing Dom. While
authorities search for them, the trio escape to Rio de Janeiro. Awaiting Dom's
arrival, Mia and Brian join their friend Vince (Matt Schulze) and other
participants on a job to steal three cars from a train. While aboard the train,
Brian and Mia discover the train is carrying DEA agents and that the cars are
seized property. When Dom arrives with the rest of the participants, he
realizes that one of them, Zizi (Michael Irby), is only interested in stealing
one car a Ford GT40. Dom has Mia steal the car herself while Dom and Brian
fight Zizi and his henchmen, with Zizi killing the DEA agents assigned to the
vehicles. Dom and Brian are captured and brought to crime lord and owner of the
cars Hernan Reyes (Joaquim de Almeida), Zizi's boss where he orders the pair be
interrogated to discover the location of the car. However they manage to escape
and retreat to their safehouse.
While Brian, Dom, and Mia examine the car to
discover its importance, Vince arrives and is caught trying to remove a
computer chip from the car, admitting that he was planning to sell it to Reyes
on his own. Dom forces Vince to leave and after investigating the chip, Brian discovers
it contains details of Reyes' criminal empire including the locations of $100
million in cash. Following the murder of the DEA agents aboard the train,
blamed on Dom and his team, U.S. Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) agent Luke
Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and his team arrive in Rio to capture Dom and Brian.
They travel to Dom's safehouse with assistance from local officer Elena Neves
(Elsa Pataky), but find it under assault by Reyes' men. Brian, Dom and Mia
escape with Dom suggesting they split up and leave Rio, but Mia announces she
is pregnant with Brian's child. Dom agrees to stick together and suggests they
steal Reyes' money to start a new life. The trio organizes a team to perform
the heist, recruiting Han Lue (Sung Kang), Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson), Tej
Parker (Ludacris), Gisele Yashar (Gal Gadot), Tego Leo (Tego Calderón) and Rico
Santos (Don Omar). Vince later joins the team after saving Mia from being
captured by Reyes' men, earning Dom's trust once more.
Hobbs and his team eventually find and arrest
Dom, Mia, Brian and Vince. While transporting them to the airport for
extradition to the United States, the convoy is attacked by Reyes' men, killing
Hobbs' team and Vince. Hobbs is saved by Dom, Brian and Mia as they fight back
against Reyes' men and escape. Wanting revenge for his murdered team, Hobbs and
Elena agree to help with the heist. The gang breaks into the police station
where Reyes' money is kept and tear the vault from the building using their
cars, dragging it through the city with police in pursuit. Believing they
cannot outrun the police, Dom makes Brian continue without him while he attacks
the police and the pursuing Reyes, using the vault attached to his car to smash
their vehicles. Brian returns to kill Zizi, while Reyes is badly injured by
Dom's assault. Hobbs arrives on the scene and executes Reyes. Hobbs refuses to
let the pair go free, but unwilling to arrest them, agrees to give them a
24-hour head start to escape. The gang split Reyes' money, with Dom leaving
Vince's share to his family, before the members go their separate ways.
In the South Pacific, Brian and Mia, now visibly
pregnant, relax on a beach, where they are met by Dom and Elena. Brian
challenges Dom to a final, no-stakes race to prove who is the better driver.
In a post-credits scene, Hobbs is given a file
by US Customs agent Monica Fuentes (Eva Mendes) concerning the hijack of a
military convoy in Berlin. In the file, Hobbs discovers a recent photo of Letty
Ortiz (Michelle Rodriguez), Dom's presumed-deceased girlfriend, implying that
she survived the events of Fast & Furious.
Ah Boys To Men ! STEADY LA :D
Singaporean-Malaysian two-part comedy film produced and directed by Jack
Neo, written by Neo and Link Sng and starring Wang Wei Liang, Noah
Yap, Joshua Tan and Maxi Lim. The main plot revolves around a group of army
recruits in National Service in Singapore.In conjunction with the Ministry of Defence's
2012 NS45 campaign, From
Fathers to Sons,it
is meant to commemorate the 45th anniversary of Singapore's National Service.Neo had wanted to shoot an army-themed film
since his army days, but could not find a suitable chance to do so.Ah Boys
to Men is the first local
film to be released in two parts and the first to film in Pulau Tekong, as well
as the first South-East Asian film to feature Dolby
Atmos surround
sound. The film's theme song, "Recruits' Anthem" was written
and composed by one of the cast, Tosh Zhang.
The film was released on November
8, 2012. It is the highest-grossing
Singaporean film of all
time, and has grossed over four times of its S$3 million budget. Buoyed by
audience demand, a third installment has been confirmed.
The film opens with the Republic
of Singapore apparently being under an immense invasion from a fictional army,
with iconic Singaporean landmarks (such as the Merlion and
the Esplanade) coming
under fire and many civilians killed brutally. It is later revealed that the
war was fictitious setting of a war-based role-playing game played by Ken Chow
(Joshua Tan), a rich and spoiled child reluctant to enlist into National
Service. Ken plans to study abroad with his girlfriend Amy (Qiu Qiu), but his
plans are derailed by NS. After being chided by Amy for his childishness, Ken
takes it out on a nearby rubbish bin, to be apprehended by two policemen in the
vicinity. A disappointed and embarrassed Amy walks away.
Back home, after being driven
back by his father (Richard Low), Ken confides to his parents about his
fears of National Service. His overprotective mother (Irene Ang) decides to
help him think of ways to defer, but to no avail. Eventually, they are all
forced to face the hard truth - there is no going against the law. The Chow
family sadly send off Ken on the day of his enlisting. Thereafter, Ken and a
few other recruits are assigned to Ninja
Company (Platoon 2, Section
2) and are sent to their bunk and introduced to their Platoon Sergeant (Tosh
Zhang), a portrayal of the tough-nails sergeant stereotype. Whilst waiting for
the mandatory haircut, Ken gets to know a few people - "Lobang" (Wang
Wei Liang), Aloysius Jin Sia-lan [Sia-lan being a reference to a crude Hokkien
slang term meaning extreme disgrace] (Maxi Lim) and "I.P. Man" (Noah
Yap).
After a two weeks' worth of
training, Ken and the other recruits are allowed to book out. A lavish party is
thrown to celebrate Ken's return, but his mood is ruined when he is shown a
photo of his girlfriend with another man. Ken angrily confronts her and demands
that they meet, which she did not agrees to. She later admits that she has fallen
for another man and dumping Ken on the highway. Determined to win her back, Ken
devises a plan to escape from Pulau Tekong and
send her off, for he feels she is merely just testing him. Ken stop drinking
water, in hopes to get a heat stroke, for which he would be sent home for ten
days; he takes the extra measure of sleeping under a ceiling-fan after dousing
himself in cold water. However, he gets into a situation worse than expected
and he is quickly sent off to a hospital after collapsing during training.
Ken's father is alerted of his son's critical condition while in a company
meeting. He quickly drives off to the hospital, but the shock and strain is too
much and he suffers a stroke while driving and violently collides with another
vehicle.
Ken wakes up in the next scene,
surrounded by his two sisters, in a hospital. He realised his foolish actions
have caused much trouble for many people and cannot bear to face his father,
who has survived the car crash and is recuperating in another ward in the same
hospital. Awakened to reality, Ken is finally fit enough to go back to
training. The film ends at this junction, and snippets of the next part are
shown.