Fast & Furious Franchise: 20 Greatest Action Sequences Ranked
18. The Fast And The Furious - The Finale
The Fast and the Furious might be positively quaint compared to nearly everything else that came afterwards, but that's not to say it doesn't have some awesome action since it absolutely does.
The movie saves the best for last with this enormously enjoyable finale in a Los Angeles neighbourhood. Dom and Brian take down the film's main villain Johnny Tran (Rick Yune) and then race each other - this culminates in the film's legendary train crossing stunt, in which both cars jump past a moving train that barely misses them.
The film, due to how early 2000s it feels in every way, has aged horribly in some ways but this finale is ageing really, really well. It's an enormously fun action sequence that is raised right up by how grounded and believable it feels, and that train crossing stunt is still absolutely epic all these years later.
This is easily the best pre-Fast Five action sequence in the series, as well as probably the best overall part of the first film.