10 All-Time Great Franchises That Still Had One Bad Movie

10. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

Although there are a lot of fans that miss the days when the Fast and Furious franchise was still focused on street racing, the box office numbers would seem to indicate that most people prefer the tonal shift into action-packed blockbuster territory.

This leaves Tokyo Drift as the odd movie out, because not only is it barely connected to the first two installments, but it marked the last movie before the original cast returned to take the series in an entirely new creative direction. Which is probably for the best, because it gave little indication that Justin Lin was only a few years away from establishing himself as one of the best action directors in the business.

Unsurprisingly, Tokyo Drift succeeds when it comes to the driving sequences but manages to fall flat almost everywhere else, not least in trying to convince us that Lucas Black is a high school student. It might be the weakest Fast and Furious movie, but at least it managed to serve a purpose in the long run by bringing both Lin and Sung Kang's Han into the mix.