10 Movie Franchises That Should Have Stopped At One Film

4. Fast And Furious

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Not only is the Fast and the Furious 9 due out in 2021, but there are already plans for two more after that. Eleven movies? Seriously? The ideas were running dangerously thin by the second film, yet inexplicably audiences keep returning to drier and drier plots and action sequences.

Compared to the legendary 80s action trio of Arnie, Sly and Willis, Vin Diesel, The Rock and Jason Statham pale into insignificance. Have any of the trio made a movie any better than mundane? They are the kings of the modern day B-Movie. Only Dwayne Johnson seems able to consistently make movies popular enough to avoid the straight-to-DVD hell of Statham and Diesel.

What is the appeal of the franchise? Surely it is testament to the gap in the market left by the big three, as a consequence of the inevitability of ageing and also the lack of decent movies worthy of their involvement.

Diesel and Statham must be laughing their socks off to be able to reap big bucks on the back of the most formulaic of all movie franchises, bolstered primarily by The Rock's ability to carry a film at the box office.

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