1. Fast Five (2011)
Why It Had No Right To Be Any Good: The Fifth Movie In An Awful Franchise The
Fast and Furious franchise marks one of the most interesting franchise turnarounds in cinema history, given how this once lackluster series with limited critical or "serious movie-going" appeal suddenly decided to aim a little higher and faze out the negative connotations that were marking it down. And although I'm not suggesting that
Fast Five is up there with
Citizen Kane or anything, here's a picture that really, really, really should not have been as good as it was, considering how little most of us thought of the franchise in general when it came out. And I'll gladly admit: I never, ever in a million years thought that one day I'd feel genuinely pleased that I went and saw a
Fast and Furious movie. So for this fifth installment (how rare is it that a fifth movie in a series will be a good one?) the filmmakers decided to intensity its action chops and tone down the crude, off-putting macho aspects that non-fans associated with these movies. The results were surprising, to say the least:
Fast Five - normally the kind of film that even hardcore fans might pass on - emerged as the best entry in the entire series.
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