Once Brian reaches Miami, he quickly gets involved in the street-racing scene (of course). But before he can have too much fun, the feds catch up with him and send him undercover all over again — except this time, he enlists his old friend Roman (Tyrese Gibson) to join him. I'd forgotten so many things about this movie: for starters, Eva Mendes is a key character, plus Ludacris is also a huge character in this franchise, and there's a scene in the club that involves a gang and a rat trapped under a bucket on a man's stomach that I can never unsee.
I had also completely forgotten about the scene where Brian drives while looking deep into Mendes's eyes instead of watching the road, and as a teenager, I just thought this was the most romantic thing ever.