Four Brothers
Dir: John Singleton
2005
**
I liked the idea but I'm not sure John Singleton executed it as successfully as he could have. It got a bit silly in places when it could and should have been a little bit more of a 'Who done it' rather than a dumb revenge film. The lead characters where painted as hot-headed hoodlums one minute and then master detectives the next. A little more of the Terrence Howard storyline would have improved things in my opinion, his character opened up the story and then went AWOL up until the end. And as beautiful as she is, I'm not sure what the real point of Sofía Vergara's character was?

2 Fast 2 Furious
Dir: John Singleton
2003
*
Apart from the amazing and original use of the number 2, signifying that this film is the second film of the franchise, 2 Fast 2 Furious is pretty much the same old nonsense but with less of the original cast. It took itself less serious at the beginning but soon went down the familiar road (see what I did there) of testosterone fueled melodramatic man anger and girls being bitchy/pink/half naked mannequins. There are cars in there somewhere too but much like the first it is so forgettable, I forgot what it was about fairly soon after watching.