Vin Diesel
Blu-Ray Review: Great Release For Disappointing ‘Fast & Furious’
Submitted by BrianTT on August 9, 2009 - 5:20pm.
CHICAGO – The Blu-Ray release of Universal’s “Fast & Furious,” also now available on DVD, is a tough one for a critic who hated the film when he had to review it in theaters. “Fast & Furious” is not a good movie, even when judged against the relatively low standards of this lackluster franchise. But the Blu-Ray? It’s pretty great.
Video Game Review: ‘The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena’
Submitted by BrianTT on April 22, 2009 - 10:30am.
 Video Game Rating: 4.0/5.0 |
CHICAGO – Vin Diesel should stick to making video games. After headlining last month’s “Wheelman” and this month’s “The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena,” I have to admit that I like the actor more as a video game hero than I do as a movie star. “Athena” gives fans the most bang for their buck of anything the actor has been involved with in years.
Video Game Review: Fast, Furious ‘Wheelman’ With Vin Diesel is Guilty Pleasure
Submitted by BrianTT on April 13, 2009 - 7:34am.CHICAGO – Midway’s “Wheelman” is my guilty pleasure game of the season. I know the game has some serious design flaws, but like an action movie you watch over and over again, the flaws are easier to forgive in the name of old-fashioned fun.
Blu-Ray Review: Vin Diesel’s Riddick Flicks Hit HD in Time For New Game
Submitted by BrianTT on April 6, 2009 - 7:08am.
 Blu-Ray Rating: 4.0/5.0 |
CHICAGO – Has one star ever had such an assault on their demographic as Vin Diesel is having in April 2009? He’s the star of two original video games (“Wheelman,” “The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena”), a blockbuster movie (“Fast & Furious”), and has two catalog titles in “Pitch Black” and “The Chronicles of Riddick” hitting Blu-Ray. And all of it happens in the span of two weeks.
‘Fast & Furious’ With Vin Diesel, Paul Walker is Loud, Boring, Useless Drivel
Submitted by BrianTT on April 3, 2009 - 11:01am. Rating: 1.0/5.0 |
CHICAGO – It took eight years to reunite the cast of the original “The Fast and the Furious” - Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, and Michelle Rodriguez. What’s changed in that time? The franchise lost two articles and gained an ampersand. Maybe the next film will simply be called “F F”. I can think of one word that starts with ‘F’ that certainly applies to the latest film - failure.
Slideshow: 38-Image Gallery From ‘Fast & Furious’ With Vin Diesel, Paul Walker
Submitted by BrianTT on March 16, 2009 - 7:30am.
(L to R) Paul Walker and Vin Diesel reteam as agent Brian OConner and fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto for the ultimate chapter of the franchise built on speedCHICAGO – This 38-image slideshow contains the press images for Universal’s “Fast & Furious,” starring Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez, John Ortiz, and Laz Alonso. Written by Chris Morgan and directed by Justin Lin, the film opens on Friday, April 3rd, 2009.
Blu-Ray Review: Vin Diesel’s ‘Babylon A.D.’ Passable Only in High-Definition
Submitted by BrianTT on January 13, 2009 - 1:21pm.
CHICAGO – When did Vin Diesel go from “the next Bruce Willis” to the “the current Steven Seagal”? Diesel’s half-asleep, apathetic performance in the sci-fi action flick “Babylon A.D.” is only one of the problems with a film that was ignored in theaters but has been given a respectable treatment on Blu-Ray.
