The Fast & The Furious: Ranking Every Movie From Worst To Best

5. Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)

Widely considered the whipping boy of the franchise for a long time, the third, Brian-less addition to the Furious franchise has now taken on a sort of cult appeal (mostly because hipsters who rank these movies keep wildly claiming it's the best one). It doesn't deserve quite as many plaudits as some will tell you, but it's definitely far from the worst.

What is most impressive is that Dom and Brian aren't keystones here - Dom appears, obviously, but it's for a glorified cameo - and how well the story shifts to focus on Lucas Black and his new supporting characters, including the returning Han. It would have been remarkably easy not to care enough about them - given the charisma vacuum they were seeking to fill - but through humour, charm and some great race-sequences, they succeeded impressively.

The film is surprisingly intelligent in a way that none of the rest of the franchise has been, taking in topics as weighty as immigration and racism, which gives the whole "family" thing even more depth. But in terms of what the franchise would become, it's not as fun - or as self-consciously daft - and while the franchise started as a road race series, it became a hell of a lot more. And for the better.

But if Universal can spin off like this again in future, it would be a very welcome development.