The Fast & The Furious: Ranking Every Movie From Worst To Best
Can someone get a grip on these film titles, please?
It might be the most frustrating movie franchise in the history of provocatively ignored naming conventions, but there's something warm and familiar about Fast & Furious movies. They've long since dispensed with trivialities like logic (and indeed the former central premise of underground street racing), and they've managed to carve a lucrative position out of Hollywood's hillside.
The latest might not have the emotional kicker of Paul Walker's goodbye (it helped, whether you care to admit it or not), but Universal did pull the rather inspired move of turning the series' original, most dependable anti-hero - Vin Diesel's Dominic Toretto - into a full blown villain. That alone should be worth the cover price, but it's good to know that the film actually lives up to its billing.
It's a balls-out, lunatic spectacle, very funny in places and touching in others, and it features one of the greatest action sequences you will ever see in your life. Impressively, it doesn't feature any cars, but there's a baby. Seriously.
The franchise as now grossed close to $4billion (and it will go comfortably over that and towards $5bn when Fate ends its cinematic run), which is no small feat for what originally amounted to a Point Break rip-off with cars.
So how does the latest - and craziest - Fast & Furious movie rank against the others.