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The "Fast and Furious" franchise has gone from mediocre to terrible to downright wonderful in the eyes of critics, who now can't stop praising it._ by [Darren Franich / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Darren Franich / Entertainment Weekly Apr 4, 2015 7:25 PM UTC  Vin Diesel stars in Furious 7 Vin Diesel stars in Furious 7Universal by [Darren Franich / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Darren Franich / Entertainment Weekly Apr 4, 2015 7:25 PM UTC Some people think all the _Fast & Furious_ movies are the same. Those people are crazy and you should never talk to them, because crazy people are crazy. Yes, every _Fast & Furious_ movie features cars that go fast. Yes, every _Fast & Furious_ movie features a lot of characters who say the word “fast” and absolutely no one who ever says “furious.” And yes, every _Fast & Furious_ movie is set in the same world where top-secret all-powerful government agencies, even more top-secret all-powerful drug cartels, and the top-secret-est all-powerful-est supervillain terrorist warlord arms dealers are no match for cool dudes with cool cars. But there the similarities end. The franchise began with Dominic Toretto truck-heisting DVD players. Fourteen years later, he’s fending off drone strikes. Below, a reasonable attempt to rank all the _Fast_ films. **7\.** **_Fast & Furious_** On a structural level, this is the single most important film in the franchise. You could call the fourth movie the pilot episode, setting the tone for the bigger-and-better movies that followed. Original stars Vin Diesel and Paul Walker return, joining with _Tokyo Drift_ team Justin Lin and Chris Morgan. And the first scene of _Fast & Furious_ is a great demonstration of Lin’s talents as an action filmmaker. But there’s no way of getting around it: _Fast 4_ is also a total bummer. Killing off Letty sends Dom on a mission of _Death Wish_ vengeance, which should feel melancholy but just feels mopey. (In Bond-movie terms, this is _Quantum of Solace_.) Also not helping matters: A running action motif where the main characters follow “directions,” which plays out like an inadvertent advertisement for Waze. _Fast 4_ is awkward, but essential for everything that came next. **6.5\.** **_Los Bandoleros_** Vin Diesel wrote and directed this twenty-minute prologue for the fourth film. What could’ve been a just-for-fans Easter egg is actually a charming, weirdly abstract short film. The movie starts with Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Tego Calderon talking about corporations holding back the electric car, right before he escapes prison to hang out in a bar with Dominic Toretto. Letty shows up, and Dom takes her to the beach. It’s very film school-y—diegetic music, ambient conversation, long shots of young lovers driving—but it’s also a curiously sincere alternate-universe _Fast_ movie. (Call it _Slow & Mildly Bemused_.) I dunno, don’t you wish Jeremy Renner could make a twenty-minute short film about Hawkeye? **6\.** **_2 Fast 2 Furious_** Controversial opinion: _2 Fast 2 Furious_ is not bad. Even more controversial opinion: _2 Fast 2 Furious_ is pretty okay. Most controversial opinion of all: The spirit of _2 Fast 2 Furious_ makes the later films even better. One-off director John Singleton doesn’t seem to have any interest in making an action movie; instead, he turns the second film into a parody of the first one. Every drag-racer is color-coded in neon clothes to match their neon cars, and Ludacris is the big-haired King of Miami, and Tyrese Gibson rips his shirt off so you can admire his glistening physique while he punches in a window, and never has there been a more hilarious unconvincing Argentine drug lord than Carter Verone. CARTER VERONE! The first film trucked in relatively realistic auto-physics—the craziest thing to happen was that time a car drove under a truck. _2 Fast_ starts with one car flying over another one; by the end, there’s a car flying into a boat. _2 Fast_ is a goof, but it’s a self-aware goof. **5\.** **_Furious 6_** Let’s be clear. Justin Lin’s _Fast_ swan song features one of the single greatest moments in movie history: Letty flying off the tank to certain death, and Dominic Toretto crashing his car so he can fly _into_ her. (Don’t worry; there’s a car to break their fall.) And the sixth _Furious_ movie also has one of the best action scenes ever: The final race down the neverending runway. Any director who makes an action movie should study the plane scene: How it pays off every subplot, cutting between a massive cast and steadily building the thrills until the final crash. Good stuff? Absolutely. So it doesn’t really matter that _Furious 6_ is less a movie than a victory lap, a job-well-done chance for the _Fast Five_ team to do the same again but moreso. It’s great to see Rodriguez back in the franchise, but the amnesia plotline keeps her locked away from the drama. Likewise, it was a weird decision to banish Brian for an Act 2 _Fast 4_ epilogue. (In _Harry Potter_ terms, this one’s _Goblet of Fire_: A mess of subplots alongside standout showcase scenes.) In conversation, Lin and Morgan have both described this movie as essentially the second half of the previous film, which actually does explain why the first half drags while the final climax rocks. (If you’re keeping track, that also means the fifth and sixth movies comprise a single movie titled _Fast Five Furious 6_.) ### These Are the 11 Best Bromances of All Time  Brian O'Conner and Dominic Toretto in The Fast and the Furious Universal  Turk and J.D. in Scrubs Justin Lubin—ABC/Getty Images  Spock and Kirk in Star Trek CBS/Getty Images  Woody and Buzz in Toy Story Pixar/Disney  Cory and Shawn in Boy Meets World ABC/Getty Images  Sulley and Mike Wazowski in Monsters, Inc. Pixar/Disney  Chandler and Joey in Friends Danny Feld—NBC/Getty Images  Dr. John Watson and Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock Robert Viglasky—Hartswood Films/Masterpiece  Alan, Stu, Doug and Phil in The Hangover Warner Bros.  Troy and Abed in Community Justing Lubin—NBC/Getty Images  Brian and Stewie in Family Guy Fox **4\.** **_The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift_** In which Justin Lin and Chris Morgan turn a pile of spare parts into a 10-second car. The over-delivering starts early in the third _Fast_ film, when Sean Boswell (the oldest-looking high school student in movie history) races football jock Clay (the oldest brother from _Home Improvement_!) through a construction site. It’s a playful site gag that’s also a genuinely exciting car chase—an essential preview of the unique Arnold-Schwarzenegger-meets-Buster-Keaton mixture of muscle-car wild action and geometric precision that Lin brought to his films. Once the film moves to Japan, _Tokyo Drift_ positively soaks in atmosphere. Of all the _Fast_ films, this is the one that feels closest in spirit to genuine car culture—and the best parts of the film are practically anthropological. (Drifting really _does_ look cool.) All that atmosphere helps cover some of the film’s problems—namely, the almost-complete lack of compelling personalities. I say “almost” because _Tokyo Drift_ lucked out with Sung Kang. His world-weary Han would appear in all the future films, but this is his showcase—his _Bandoleros_, if you will—and he gives the film a genuine heart. The final action scene hasn’t aged well—whoa, cameraphones!—but _Tokyo Drift_ is _Fast & Furious_ reduced to its bare essentials, lean and mean. (In _X-Men_ terms, it’s _The Wolverine_.) **3\.** **_The Fast and the Furious_** The first movie should look so modest in comparison. Everyone is young, normal-sized. There are only a few big action scenes, none of them which involve tanks or planes or bank vaults. Later films put whole cities at risk; the scariest part of _Fast 1_ is the possibility that Brian O’Conner might ruin his friendship with Dominic Toretto. But _Fast 1_ runs on huge emotions and sky-high ambitions. Walker plays the role of nice-guy outsider protagonist, which means everyone else gets to have fun. Vin Diesel becomes Vin Diesel, playing ex-con Toretto as a broody car-Christ. The first big racing scene is mythmaking at its finest, complete with a Ja Rule cameo and Diesel’s “You never had me!” monologue. Rick Yune’s Johnny Tran is the second-best _Fast_ villain—and if you retroactively think the Rock’s a good guy in _Fast Five_, he’s the best, full stop. Director Rob Cohen doesn’t have Lin’s verve for action scenes, and _Fast 1_ is a clear victim of age-so-poorly bad CGI. But Cohen was smart enough to let dynamic young performers like Diesel and Rodriguez pretty much play the version of themselves they’d be playing forever. So although the later movies are wilder and crazier are bigger, they’re also all chasing the franchise’s Big Moment: Vin Diesel, in the shadows of a garage, explaining that he lives his life a quarter mile etcetera. **2\.** **_Furious Seven_** If _The Fast and the Furious_ is the band’s debut album, then _Furious Seven_ is the double-sided concept-album mixtape with guest stars and interludes and sometimes Taiko drums just for the hell of it. (_Fast 1_ is to _Furious Seven_ as _Meet the Beatles_ is to _The White Album_.) From the very first scene—an extended introduction to new villain Jason Statham, walking through the ruins of a hospital he practically destroyed—the newest film announces itself as a complete hyperbolization of everything that has come before. Everything that can be done gets done twice. Statham has a hand-to-hand fight with The Rock _and_ a hand-to-hand fight with Diesel. Cars fly out of a plane, and fly off a cliff, and through a building, and through another building. In the wrong hands, this could get enervating—too much too muchness, like the _Transformers_ films. But Wan brings a light touch, scattering little moments inside the big scenes. Like the moment when two cars fly off a cliff, and while they fall through the air, birds chirp in the background. There’s a proud incoherence to _Furious Seven_. None of these movies’ plots make sense, but _Seven_ clearly bears the marks of the midstream loss of Paul Walker. To counterbalance the loss, the film shuffles through A-plot goals and B-plot arcs in a clear attempt to keep things moving; Kurt Russell turns an extended cameo into a scenestealing showcase, popping up every twenty minutes or so. (Nominal villain Djimon Hounsou is shot like Darth Vader, but most of his role is screaming from the front seat of a helicopter.) This is the franchise’s take-it-to-11 moment—complete with a telenovela-worthy Dom and Letty arc—but it’s also the first film that seems aware that these films can’t really go over-the-top. (In _Evil Dead_ terms, this is _Evil Dead 2_.) And for all the awkwardness, the film is also a sincere tribute to its fallen lead actor—with a four-hankie coda unimaginable in any other action-movie context. **1\.** **_Fast Five_** The legend. The killer app. The film that retroactively argued that four essentially unrelated movies were all worldbuilding towards a final act. _Fast Five_ is one of the best pure entertainments of the decade, with at least three hall-of-fame action scenes: The train heist, the Rock-Diesel showdown, and the final bank-vault robbery. Hell, there are great action scenes _within_ those action scenes: The train heist leads into the cliff dive, while the final scene double-climaxes with Dom transforming the bank vault into an anti-police-car cudgel. As Luke Hobbs, Johnson is the kind of genuine-equal antagonist most films never bother with. (Which makes it even more goofy-profound when he agrees to partner up with Dom at the end.) And where the next couple of _Fast_ movies kept sending the cast to further-flung locations, _Five_ benefits from a single strong setting: Rio de Janeiro, imagined herein as a metropolis of sweaty favelas and malevolent dictator-druglords. In his finest outing, Lin brings a mix of beefcake camp and street-level grittiness to the proceedings: When the Rock chases Diesel across the rooftops, it’s like watching _Bourne Ultimatum_ remade by Vince McMahon. But there’s a core generosity of spirit to _Fast Five_, which speaks to the weird wonder of the franchise as a whole. Star-producer Diesel has never looked bigger or more messianic—”THIS IS BRAZIL!”—but _Fast Five_ is democratic enough to find room for the stars of non-_Diesel_ outings like _2 Fast_ and _Tokyo Drift_. Although it’s easy to forget now, _Fast Five_ was partially conceived as a potential conclusion to the franchise—who knew it’d run forever? And so the final sequence of the movie is one of the most ebullient conclusions of the franchise era: Don Omar’s “[Danza Kuduro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zp1TbLFPp8)” rides the characters off into eternity. They finished their last job; now they can rest. Until the next last job. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/03/fast-furious-movies-ranked?hootPostID=477b36543c596666e7e9a833fe9bbab7) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com)_._ _Read next:_ [Furious 7 _Races to Front of Box Office Pack With $143.6 Million_](http://time.com/3771638/furious-7-box-office/?iid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article) Every Fast & Furious Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3771543/fast-furious-ranking/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3771543/fast-furious-ranking/"},"headline":"Every Fast & Furious Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best","datePublished":"2015-04-04T19:25:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:41:01.429Z","description":"They all have fast cars...but which one is best?","url":"https://time.com/3771543/fast-furious-ranking/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta0cdeb0a05247c74/698786b9a988ca35e46ad3c6/furious-71.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Darren Franich / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta0cdeb0a05247c74/698786b9a988ca35e46ad3c6/furious-71.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"furious-7","caption":"FURIOUS 7, (aka FAST & FURIOUS 7), Vin Diesel, 2015. ph: Scott Garfield/©Universal Pictures","creditText":"Universal","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3771543/fast-furious-ranking/","name":"Every Fast & Furious Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Paul Walker's Brothers Doing Final 'Fast And The Furious' Scenes","description":"'The Fast and the Furious 7' resumes shooting with the help of Paul Walker's brothers. 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