10 Sequels That Were Nothing Like The First Movie

4. Fast Five

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The Original:

Basically Point Break with wheels, The Fast and the Furious was an unashamed B-move based around the Los Angeles street racing scene, one that embraced its pulp roots and delivered an entertaining enough actioner.

The Sequel:

While it may have been the fourth movie that reunited the original cast, Fast Five was when the franchise really embraced its new identity. Upgrading itself as gravity-defying, balls-to-the wall escapism, the fifth installment threw logic out of the window and was all the better for it.

The casting of Dwayne Johnson cemented this shift into the realms of blockbuster territory, with the franchise's street-racing roots all-but-forgotten following a series of city-destroying, bone-breaking and utterly gonzo action sequences that transformed the Fast and Furious series into one of Hollywood's elite franchises, a position that it has embraced with increasingly-ridiculous results with each sequel since.

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