There's a stupefying beauty to the arc of The Fast and the Furious movie franchise. With 2001's The Fast and The Furious, a Point Break for gearheads starring two relatively unknown young actors and made for $38 million, we learned about a tight-knit crew of thieves in Los Angeles who like to drag-race, throw backyard cookouts, and steal DVD players from trucks while driving at insane speeds. Eighteen years and $5 billion in worldwide gross revenue later, the franchise is a box-office behemoth, with its first spinoff, featuring the usual macho, stunt-based shenanigans and an ever-growing number of friends and foes. This is not a normal trajectory.
Like the saga's bulbous figurehead Dominic Toretto, played by Vin Diesel, this series lives its life '.' When you're strapped into your seat at the multiplex, nothing else matters: not the convoluted chronology, not the, not the tragic death of Paul Walker that has added a melancholy quality to the later films. For those two or more hours of rubber-burning mayhem, you're free.But when you get home - or peel out of the theater parking lot in your NOS-powered vehicle - it's time to discuss one of the most pressing questions in contemporary cinema: What's the best Fast and Furious movie? More specifically, how would you rank all nine movies (and ) in terms of fastness and furiousness? To help you make sense of this globe-trotting octology, we've ordered them in the way that can only be described as perfect and correct.
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The next installment in The Fast and Furious franchise, is due out in 2021, making it a full 20 years since the original film debuted. Yes, the street-racing, vehicle-heisting, world-saving team — ahem, family — of Dominic Toretto, Brian O’Conner, Letty, and a small army of supporting characters has been around for two decades.The is one of the highest-grossing of all time, having earned more than $5 billion combined. It now includes nine films, including the spin-off, two supporting short films, as well as a spin-off film in the works, and a spin-off TV show for called Spy Racers. Dwayne Johnson, who plays Luke Hobbs in the franchise, has revealed that even Hobbs and Shaw has its own sequel in the works, potentially making a franchise within the franchise.Put simply, The Fast and Furious franchise is huge.
The Turbo-Charged Prelude for 2 Fast 2 Furious is a six-minute short. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift focuses on high school student.
If you want to catch up on everything that’s happened in this saga, you may need a little guidance because, like the, you can’t just watch the movies based on when they came out. Below, we’ve broken down the best order to watch the Fast and Furious movies to follow the storyline in the way it was intended.Warning: Some spoilers ahead. Fast and Furious (2001)The one that started it all. If you’ve only seen some of the more recent films in the franchise, 2001’s Fast and Furious will be almost shocking in its restraint.
The first film follows undercover LAPD officer Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker) as he infiltrates notorious street racer and gang leader Dominic Toretto’s (Vin Diesel) crew to investigate grand theft auto. Ultimately, Brian realizes he has more in common with Dom than he expected and falls in love with Dom’s sister Mia, to boot. Rather than turn Dom over, Brian helps him escape, setting the stage for an enduring partnership. The Turbo-Charged Prelude for 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)The first short film in the franchise was included in the special edition DVD set of 2003’s 2 Fast 2 Furious. It’s not essential viewing — it’s buried in the special features of a DVD — but it provides a nice little link between the first and second film and shows just how forward-thinking this franchise really was. Marvel’s post-credits scenes receive the hype, but The Fast and Furious franchise was finding creative ways to further the story half a decade earlier.In the six-minute film, Brian is on the run after helping Dom escape. He flees LA and begins winning street races across the U.S.
To earn money and notoriety while the FBI launches a national manhunt for him. In the end, Brian reaches Miami, where 2 Fast 2 Furious takes place. 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)In Miami, Brian continues street racing to make a living.
The film introduces us to mechanic Tej Parker (Ludacris) and starts making strides toward some of the crazy car modifications that the franchise is known for.After failing to bring Brian in, his former boss FBI Agent Bilkins (Thom Barry) cuts a deal with him to return to undercover work to take down drug lord Carter Verone (Cole Hauser). Brian teams up with childhood friend Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson) and together they bring down Verone, both earning clean records in the process.