2 Fast 2 Furious | Rickenbacker Marina — The Yard Where Fast Things Are Held

The impound sequence — rows of seized cars and boats behind chain link, Brian and Roman walking the aisles — was shot at the marina on the Virginia Key side of the Rickenbacker Causeway, where a working boatyard sits in full view of the downtown skyline. It is the film's most honest location. Nothing had to be dressed, because a marina hard-standing already looks like the place expensive things go when somebody takes them away from you.

Drive the causeway out from Brickell and the approach is half the reward. The road lifts over the William Powell Bridge with the bay open on both sides and the whole rank of Brickell towers swinging past your shoulder, which is the transition shot the movie reaches for again and again.

Park at Virginia Key, walk down to the water and look back west. Hulls on cradles, masts, a travel lift, the skyline stacked behind them. Bring cash for the causeway toll and time it for late afternoon, when the light comes flat off the bay and the yard turns exactly the colour it is on screen.

Photo: Miami Marine Stadium, Virginia Key, by Thomas Hawk (Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0).