Yahoo Lifestyle "Fast X" Is Almost Here, So Here Is Every "Fast And Furious" Movie So Far, Ranked
The real question is: have they ever even made a bad Fast and Furious movie?
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I would argue that no, they have not. I think the biggest sins a Fast Saga installment can commit is being relatively forgettable or too similar to other movies, rather than pushing the franchise forward.
So while we get ready for Fast X, let's see how each film stacks up.
10.Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
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I'm going to restate here that I don't think the Fast Saga has ever made a boring movie. And Hobbs & Shaw introduced some fun stuff like the fight with the Hobbs family and some motorcycle action.
But a pretty forgettable plot combined with the lack of the rest of the familiar Fast faces like Dom and Letty puts this one at #10.
Clip: Helicopter vs. Trucks
9.Fast & Furious (2009)
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This movie deserves a lot of credit for setting the franchise's tone. After trying out several different aesthetics in the first three movies, Fast & Furious nailed down what the vibe would be moving forward.
We also got to see Mia joining in on more of the action than she did in the first movie. But besides killing off one of its major characters, Fast & Furious didn't do too much that the franchise hadn't already seen.
Clip: Opening Scene
8.Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
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Featuring the famous airplane runway that's roughly 18–25 miles long (depending on who's doing the math), Fast & Furious 6 saw the family fighting Owen Shaw and an evil Letty around London.
Fast & Furious 6 also has one of my favorite vehicles in the franchise with the "flip cars" that Shaw and his crew drive. We also got to see Hobbs come back and a wild post-credits scene that retconned Tokyo Drift — before F9 retconned the retcon.
Clip: Plane Fight
7.The Fast and the Furious (2001)
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It may only barely resemble the modern Fast movies (for anyone who missed F9, they drove a car into space), but we wouldn't have the $6+ billion franchise we have today.
Muscles vs. tuners, pulling off crimes in souped-up cars, and, of course, Family —they all started here.
Clip: Street Race
6.F9 (2021)
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Could there have been any better movie to welcome audiences back to theaters after a year of lockdown? Not only did they manage to make the action even bigger (like with that car they drove to space), but also explored Dom's younger years with his brother Jakob.
Bringing back Charlize Theron and introducing John Cena and Vinnie Bennett to the cast didn't hurt, either.
Clip: Rope Swing
5.2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
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For too long 2 Fast 2 Furious has been the bastard child of the franchise. It may have swapped out Vin Diesel for a weirdly vibrant color palette, but it also introduced mainstays in the franchise: Tyrese Gibson as Roman, Ludacris as Tej, and vehicles flying through the air and landing on bigger vehicles.
It may be the single most "early-2000s" movie I've ever seen, but that's a plus in my book.
Clip: Pink Slip Race
4.The Fate of the Furious (2017)
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"The one where Charlize Theron has dreads." Also, we get some Hobbs v. Shaw bickering that sets up their spinoff movie, an evil Dom, and a franchise-changing reveal involving Elena Neves (click here for the spoiler).
Clip: Harpooning Dom's Car
3.Furious 7 (2015)
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In my opinion, no major blockbuster has respected one of its main characters' real-life deaths in the way that Furious 7 did. It delivered on the franchise's often-memed theme of Family with an emotional sendoff for Paul Walker.
And despite the tragedy surrounding it, it still managed to be a great movie, with an incredible sequence set in Abu Dhabi. There were also skydiving cars, foreshadowing the car that went to space in F9.
I really cannot understate that space car.
Clip: "Cars Don't Fly"
2.The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
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My personal favorite, Tokyo Drift took a series that had two movies under its belt and said, "What if we kept the cars and forgot everything else." Besides the early-2000s sheen that shines through it, everything feels different in Tokyo Drift.
The driving is less about speed and more about dexterity. Dom, Brian, and Letty have been swapped out for Han, Sean, and Bow Wow. And for a series that's known for constantly making its set-pieces bigger (space car), Tokyo Drift actually feels like a smaller movie than 2 Fast 2 Furious.
Clip: DK vs. Sean First Race
1.Fast Five (2011)
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I love Tokyo Drift for trying something new, but the #1 spot has to go to the most "Fast & Furious-y" Fast & Furious movie in the series. Fast & Furious (the fourth movie) set the tone for the franchise, but Fast Five perfected it.
The Family starts globe-trotting, Luke Hobbs and Elena Neves are introduced, Gal Gadot's Gisele Yashar is brought back in a more prominent role than in Fast & Furious, and the final set-piece with the vault is one of the best in the franchise.
