Apart from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, no film franchise has grown quite as fast or as furiously as, well, you’ve read the title of the article. With a dozen releases in a quarter-century , the Fast franchise has racked up over $6.6 billion at the worldwide box office.
10. The Fate of the Furious If Fast & Furious stands out for being a bit dreary, The Fate of the Furious resides on the opposite end of the spectrum. By this eighth entry in the franchise, the stakes and scale of the Toretto family’s missions have become so enormous that it’s hard to believe that this whole drama started with some pilfered DVD players.
8. Fast X As the first part in a planned trilogy that wraps up the core series, Fast X begins at an immediate disadvantage. It’s a film without a real ending, cluttered with subplots that are left dangling at the close of an oddly paced 142 minutes. Perhaps Fast X will feel less messy once the series is complete, and fans can sit down with a bucket of Coronas and watch the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth films all in a row.
6. 2 Fast 2 Furious If The Fast and the Furious is a louder and dumber Point Break, then 2 Fast 2 Furious is a louder and dumber Miami Vice, and we don’t take issue with either of them. John Singleton’s fun and colorful crime thriller was the first step in the evolution of The Fast and the Furious from a scrappy MTV drama to a tentpole summer blockbuster, teaming up disgraced cop Brian O’Connor and his childhood friend Roman Pierce on a mission to bring down a drug kingpin.
4. Fast & Furious 6 Let any action franchise run long enough, and eventually, you’re gonna have to do a mirror match. Fast & Furious 6 puts the newly expanded Toretto crew against their wicked opposites, a team of precision drivers-turned-thieves who have no compunctions against aiding or arming terrorists. And, to raise the stakes, their nasty counterparts have a ringer on their team: Letty Ortiz, who it turns out didn’t die in the fourth movie after all.