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Has the Fast & Furious franchise earned a victory lap? That’s the key question behind an appraisal of “Fast X,” a film that brazenly plays like a Greatest Hits collection from a hit artist. Not only does it directly link to the massive, franchise-turning “ Fast Five ” in its narrative, but it constantly recalls other films in this series either through direct mention or action beats designed to recall similar moments in movies like “ Fast & Furious 6 ,” “ Furious 7 ,” and “ The Fate of the Furious .” The script by Dan Mazeau and "Fast Five" director  Justin Lin (who left the film after creative differences and whose absence is felt in terms of action choreography) is like a snake eating its own tail, often playing like a parody of the franchise more than a new entry that cruises on its own four wheels. Even as it’s spinning through enjoyably goofy action set pieces, most of them enlivened greatly by a fun performance from Jason Momoa , there’s a desperate familiarity to all of “Fast X” that makes it even more like reheated leftovers than it has before. This is reportedly the start of a trilogy that will close the series. Let’s hope they come up with at least one fresh idea in the next two flicks.

Maybe it’s the leaden way in which director Louis Leterrier treats these beloved characters, but the opening scenes of “Fast X” are among the worst in all ten films, a cavalcade of conversations about family, legacy, and other FF tropes. It’s one thing for a character like Dom Toretto ( Vin Diesel ) to preach the importance of family, but it’s another with notes of Charlie Puth playing over gauzy shots of him looking at press stills of Paul Walker . There was an opportunity here to give us “Old Man Dom”—he is 56, after all—but it’s as if Diesel and his team have no idea what that looks like other than to make their tough guy a little wistful. There’s an odd construction to these early scenes that use the oft-parodied trope of Dom saying “family” as a constant whipping post. They diminish what these films were at their best (installments five through seven) by reducing Toretto and his gang to their most obvious qualities. No one expects great character depth at this point, but do we need so many scenes of Dom grunting "family" and looking worried when he sees his son ‘Little B’ ( Leo Abelo Perry )?

“Fast X” improves greatly when Momoa’s Dante Reyes begins his plan to torture Dom and his furious family. Roman ( Tyrese Gibson ), Tej (Ludacris), and Ramsey ( Nathalie Emmanuel ) head off to Rome on a mission, but it’s a trap designed by Reyes, the son of Hernan Reyes, who was killed when Dom and company rolled a safe through Rio in “Fast Five.” Dante says repeatedly that he doesn’t want to kill Dom; he wants him to suffer. That apparently entails an elaborate scheme to frame the gang as terrorists after a bomb explodes in the Italian capital. Following the construction of these films, at least since Vin and The Rock broke up, it’s just a way to divide the crew. Roman, Tej, Ramsey, and Han ( Sung Kang ) flee to London, where they run into Shaw ( Jason Statham ), of course. Letty ( Michelle Rodriguez ) ends up captured, and only Mr. Nobody’s daughter Tess ( Brie Larson ) and Cipher ( Charlize Theron ) can get her out. And that crowded synopsis doesn’t even include John Cena , Jordana Brewster , Daniela Melchior , Helen Mirren , Rita Moreno , or Alan Ritchson . It’s a crowded street race of a blockbuster.

And yet all of these famous faces are given so little to do. The Roman/Tej banter has never felt more tired; Moreno & Mirren each get one “supporting Dom” scene that sounds like A.I. wrote it; Cena gets trapped with Perry on an awkwardly conceived and executed road trip; only Theron and Rodriguez get to have any real fun in their subplot, fighting it out in one of the film’s best combat scenes. For the most part, “Fast X” is the Dom & Dante Show, and the film is at its most effective when it bounces Diesel & Momoa’s very different screen personas off each other. Diesel seems more stoic than ever while Momoa plays to the back row, going for flamboyant psychotic with every scene. He’s like a giant child in a superhero’s body, sticking out his tongue and gleefully hopping into chaos with a “Here we go!”

“Fast X” opens with a repurposing of one of the most famous scenes in the franchise from “Fast Five,” only inserting a de-aged Momoa into the action that fans remember. It’s almost as if that inciting idea became the creative force behind the entire film. Someone listed the best action scenes on a whiteboard and then asked how the energy of Momoa’s Dante could shift them. Sometimes it works. A drag race scene in Rio captures that more grounded energy from when the series was actually about people driving fast instead of defying physics. There’s a plane dropping a car again and harpoons with wires on the end. Even when the goofy action is working, it’s hard to shake the sense that all of “Fast X” is an echo of something you’ve seen before, and often done better with a director who understands stunt work and action geography better than the mediocre Leterrier. It doesn’t help that “Fast X” often looks poorly rendered in CGI terms, with actors more obviously against green-screen backgrounds than before. It reduces the stakes when we're clearly watching something that’s more visual effects than stunt work.

All of this “rock band encore with new pyrotechnics” approach becomes even less forgivable because of where “Fast X” lands. Or rather doesn’t. Without spoiling, Diesel has revealed that this is the start of a franchise-ending trilogy, and that information probably leaked pre-premiere to soften the blow of a blockbuster with no ending. I’m talking “ Avengers: Infinity War ” level climax here. Characters are left presumed dead, in jeopardy, and still divided. This movie's race down memory lane goes arguably nowhere, forcing fans to wait for satisfaction. It makes “Fast X” into less of a victory lap than a loud, expensive revving of engines that haven’t even crossed the starting line. It just adds to the sense that this isn’t so much about family or fun as it is finances.

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Brian Tallerico is the Managing Editor of RogerEbert.com, and also covers television, film, Blu-ray, and video games. He is also a writer for Vulture, The Playlist, The New York Times, and GQ, and the President of the Chicago Film Critics Association.

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Fast X (2023)

Rated PG-13

142 minutes

Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto

Michelle Rodriguez as Letty Ortiz

Tyrese Gibson as Roman Pearce

Ludacris as Tej Parker

Jason Momoa as Dante Reyes

Nathalie Emmanuel as Ramsey

Jordana Brewster as Mia Toretto

John Cena as Jakob Toretto

Jason Statham as Deckard Shaw

Sung Kang as Han Lue

Alan Ritchson as Agent Aimes

Daniela Melchior as Isabel

Scott Eastwood as Little Nobody

Helen Mirren as Magdalene 'Queenie' Shaw

Charlize Theron as Cipher

Brie Larson as Tess

Rita Moreno as Abuelita Toretto

• Louis Leterrier

Writer (characters)

• Gary Scott Thompson

Writer (story by)

Cinematographer.

• Stephen F. Windon
• Kelly Matsumoto
• Dylan Highsmith
• Brian Tyler

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‘Fast X’ Review: Drivers Wanted. Again.

Twenty-two years and nine sequels in, the “Fast and Furious” franchise is finding it hard to keep the thrill alive.

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By Wesley Morris

So much has gone over the top in these “Fast and Furious” movies — stunt work and demolition, obviously; but also family trees, racing, race , plots, pates, biceps, upper backs — that it wasn’t until I saw what Jason Momoa was up to in this new installment, “Fast X,” that I realized how much the acting had stayed under the table. He swoops in to play a flamboyant terrorist named Dante Reyes. And it’s pretty clear, from the pitiful quips he’s been given and the light-loafer treatment he’s going for, that the mustache Momoa’s twirling isn’t his. It’s Rip Taylor’s.

For half a century, Taylor ran all over American TV in a hail of confetti that he threw for himself. He didn’t act. He made appearances. That’s how Momoa operates here, showing up wherever the movie needs him (on patio furniture, at the top of the Aldeadávila Dam ) in lavender and snakeskin and billowing everything, horny to blow something up. These movies have been out of good ideas since “Furious 7” eight years ago , mired in government-flavored tug-of-wars over hacking, surveillance and tech. And Momoa’s here to zhuzh things up. So along with Taylor’s mustache, Momoa twirls himself. It’s like watching an overcup oak go trick-or-treating as a Christmas tree.

And yet, even though he destroys the Spanish Steps of Rome with alacrity and purrs lines like, “I know what you’re thinking. And yes: the carpet matches the drapes,” it’s not zhuzh-y enough. Momoa is giving the Joker. But Cesar Romero’s. Of course, he’s the only person here committed to clear and present lunacy, going for post-macho chill, refashioning the quote marks around him into neck pillows.

Five movies and a dozen years ago, Dom (Vin Diesel) and the gang trashed favelas in Rio de Janeiro and killed Dante’s drug-lord father (along with scores of innocent Brazilians, but we’re not going there today). Now, with the series at the bottom of its barrel, Dante wants revenge. This means sending a giant bomb barreling toward the Vatican. He doesn’t quite pull that off, but his wish comes true to make wanted terrorists of Dom and the rest of the gang, creating a rift between them and the feds they covertly work for and spoiling the driving lessons Dom had been giving to his 8-year-old son, Brian (Leo Abelo Perry).

There are about five intersected plot lines, credited to Justin Lin and Dan Mazeau (the director Louis Leterrier replaces Lin as mayhem manager). Dom on the run; Dom’s brother, Jakob (John Cena), babysitting Brian (they’re on the run, too); some of Dom’s crew — Roman (Tyrese Gibson), Tej (Chris “Ludacris” Bridges), Han (Sung Kang) and Ramsey (Nathalie Emmanuel) — all but backpacking through Europe; Dom’s wife, Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), arrested and locked up alongside the crew’s cyberterrorist nemesis, Cipher (Charlize Theron); and the two feds, Aimes (Alan Ritchson) and Tess (Brie Larson), at odds with each other over whether to aid or apprehend the “F&F” gang. And just about every strand stems from Dante’s pique and gets left as a cliffhanger that won’t be resolved until years from now in, what, “Fast X+1”?

The best I can say about all of this is that it didn’t bore me. But this is a series that, by the time its fourth and fifth installments arrived, had merged the original movie’s casually erotic, multiethnic, omni-racial car culture with the “can’t top that” set pieces of Hollywood summer movies. It wasn’t that that fusion was never boring. It had the thrill of newness. How many times have I laughed, in awe, at what this series could do with all kinds of vehicles and the people behind them. It insisted that a universe of nonwhite folks could meet the priorities of blockbuster filmmaking and still rake up money around the globe. And it was exciting to see who they could enfold into that agenda (Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Helen Mirren, Kurt Russell).

We’re talking about 22 years and nine sequels, though. Stacking the rotation with two former professional wrestlers, four Oscar winners (Rita Moreno gets jammed in here as Dom’s grandmother) plus Aquaman no longer feels like radical popular-culture inclusion. It feels both defensive and greedy: Can the Avengers top that ? From an industrial standpoint, it does expose how much less gonzo our movies are now. What other franchise would’ve had the nerve to imagine Statham as Mirren’s son? To put Diesel in Moreno’s arms, Larson’s good graces and Theron’s cross hairs?

There’s a charitable, cash-free reason nobody wants these things to end. Despite Paul Walker’s having been dead for a decade, in these movies, his character, Brian O’Conner, is still alive, still married to Dom’s sister, still a dad, still living on a beach somewhere. The opening minutes of “Fast X” reimagine the death of Dante’s daddy in “Fast 5” and therefore grant the film an excuse to reanimate Walker. It just strains credulity that Brian would be sitting idle now while his homies face extinction. But that’s an implication of what these movies are asking us to believe, that his wife, Mia (Jordana Brewster), is more down for the defense of their family than he is. So letting this series go means letting Walker go, too. But that sentimentality leaves these movies with nowhere to go but up its own annals. (Well, there is Antarctica, the funniest of the datelines here.)

Instead, we get the wrong kind of chaos. You can see it in the incoherence of the driving — and there’s not enough of that, either. Which means wasting the series’s lead actor and flame-keeper. These movies used to know what they had in Vin Diesel. Put him behind the wheel of anything, and he’s a star. The cameras in “Fast X” are too busy to truly take in all the furrowing, the glints, the scowls. He’s not much of a husband, lover, father or mastermind in these movies, but give his foot a gas pedal and suddenly the man can act. His best moments in “Fast X” involve that stuff at the Vatican. He seems to mean it. Dom’s enormous crucifix isn’t an accessory. It’s a promise. But later, when he’s pulling two charred helicopter husks behind him, Diesel’s lack of concern concerned me. The thrill is gone.

It’s not there in the sequence in which that ball-bomb eats a chunk of Rome or any of the many, many shootouts and fistfights. Not even in the brawl Rodriguez and Theron endure that should have killed both of their characters. Visually, it’s as messy as a lot of the sequences in “Fast X.” It’s hard to care about a fight you can’t follow or be bothered to suspend disbelief for. That’s the true death knell for this series: rationalism, nit-picking, disillusionment. ( Why can’t Brian come out and play? )

The series doesn’t need Momoa’s vamping. The camp was always coming from inside the garage, the way these movies operated in defiance of physics, chronology, narrative logic and DNA. Their subject was criminals conflicted about going legit. Now they’re practically a government agency, out protecting the planet — and they’re so far through the moral looking glass that everybody looks too comfortable. There’s a reason the movies’ insistence on family starts to feel laughable. It makes us feel like we’re at Olive Garden. Their dumbness made them important. Now, self-importance has made them dumb. Characters are now explaining these movies to each other — and where great, big, bronzed Aimes is concerned, man splaining them. They’re saying stuff like, “It’s like a cult with cars,” “The fallout will be existential” and “This family has gotten their hands dirty to keep ours clean.”

These movies used to know what about them was ridiculous. They’d give that to us until our hearts broke the speed limit. But I’ve already seen Diesel drive at a 90-degree angle before. The old bravado currently reeks of formula. The nerve is shot. There was a time when this series would have had Dante send a pair of balls hurtling toward the Vatican.

Fast X Rated PG-13. Running time: 2 hour 21 minutes. In theaters.

Wesley Morris is a critic at large and the co-host, with Jenna Wortham, of the culture podcast “Still Processing.” He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for criticism, including in 2021 for a set of essays that explored the intersection of race and pop culture. More about Wesley Morris

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‘fast x’ review: jason momoa makes a memorable villain in an action-stuffed franchise installment that’s for fans only.

Vin Diesel headlines a huge cast of new and familiar faces in this 10th film in the hugely successful, car-driven franchise, directed by Louis Leterrier.

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The Fast and Furious movies may all be about fast cars, but the franchise has gotten so congested it’s a wonder they’re able to break the speed limit.

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Considering the amount of money these films have made for Universal, and the fact that the series has gone longer than many of its current viewers will have been alive, it’s hard to blame Vin Diesel and company for taking a victory lap. Or laps, as this supposed end to the franchise (please contact me about the bridge I’m selling) has recently been rumored to be the first of not two parts but three.

This edition provides more of what its fans have come to expect, and by “more” I mean “MORE.” As in: more characters, more stunts, more explosions, more chases, more locations, more everything. Thankfully, Fast X doesn’t venture into outer space, which should really be left to James Bond and Tom Cruise. The film also harkens back to its hardscrabble beginnings by featuring a mid-film racing scene between its main hero and villain for no apparent reason whatsoever. But then again, there’s always time in this cinematic universe for a totally extraneous street race.

The Fast franchise has gotten so convoluted that non-rabid fans should prepare to do serious homework before seeing this installment, directed by series newcomer Louis Leterrier ( The Transporter , Now You See Me ), who stepped in on short notice when original director Justin Lin backed out after coming to the conclusion that “this movie is not worth my mental health.”

That’s because Fast X is directly connected to that predecessor in that the main baddie in this one, Dante ( Jason Momoa ), turns out to be the son of the Brazilian drug kingpin killed by Dom Toretto (Diesel) and crew back in 2011. And don’t blame your memory if you don’t remember Momoa appearing in that elaborate chase on the bridge in that film. He’s been retconned into the footage to make it clear that Dante holds a very strong grudge over his father’s death. It seems that Dom isn’t the only one in this series who gets emotional over the loss of family members.

Momoa, it turns out, is one of the best things to ever happen to the franchise. He’s the best villain by far (not to mention that he does many of his own stunts) and thoroughly steals the film with his delightfully unhinged portrayal of Dante, who interrupts his nefarious activities to inform the ever-macho Dom that his “carpet matches the drapes.” Momoa is not exactly an actor associated with lightness, but here he practically dances the role as much as acts it, taking such frenetically gleeful delight in his character’s sadistic taunting that you practically root for him even when he threatens to destroy the Vatican. He gives the impression of having huffed nitrous oxide before every take. Dante makes the Joker look like a depressive, and he’s so damn entertaining that he lifts the series to new heights.

The core crew — including Michelle Rodriguez , Tyrese Gibson , Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Brewster, Nathalie Emmanuel, Sung Kang, etc. — is back, except this time they’re divided into various groups scattered across the globe, the better to showcase locations including Rome, Lisbon and London, among others. (I assume the film didn’t actually shoot in Antarctica, where some scenes are set, but with this kind of money involved you never know.) Needless to say, most of these cities become the worse for wear from the experience, especially Rome, which suffers mightily as a result of an extravagant chase sequence and a massive bomb going off. With both this film and the upcoming Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning: Part One nearly laying the city to waste, it wouldn’t be surprising if skittish tourists avoid the Spanish Steps for a while.

Cena is another standout, displaying charm and solid comic chops in the numerous scenes in which Jakob protects Dom’s young son (Leo Abelo Perry, delivering perfectly calibrated wide-eyed stares) from Dante. This includes the pair escaping a passenger plane filled with bad guys by taking off in, what else, a smaller plane located in the cargo hold.

Twice in the film, giant lumbering objects ricochet through crowded city streets, wreaking absolute havoc in their wake. They’re perfect visual metaphors for the movies themselves, so stuffed with over-the-top mayhem and testosterone-fueled macho aggressiveness that they’ve become utterly ridiculous. What saves Fast X is that it’s so aware of its own absurdity that it becomes an entertaining parody of itself. Why else would one of the characters point out, “The real question is, How did we let this go on so long?” It seems a safe bet that this opening weekend’s grosses will provide enough of an explanation.  

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The only deceptive thing about the Fast and Furious movies is that the people behind them pretend they’re still movies about cars. Don’t let the talk about torque and fuel-injection systems fool you: This series shifted into a different gear a long time ago. Specifically, it pivoted in 2011 with Fast Five , the movie that made Fast and Furious the hybrid superhero/superspy/super-heist franchise it is today. Since then, what was once a fresh (and, honestly, pretty funny) pivot has spun its wheels into the dirt. Which brings us to Fast X.

The villain in this latest chapter of the saga is Dante Reyes (once and future Aquaman Jason Momoa), the son of the Brazilian drug-dealer antagonist from Fast Five . Fast X opens with recycled footage from Fast Five showing Dante’s dad Hernan (Joaquim de Almeida) meeting his end in that film’s climactic bank heist/car chase. It’s a telling choice, because it reveals where the current incarnation of the series really began. It also reminds longtime fans what these movies used to be about — the car chase at the end of Fast Five is awesome, better than anything in Fast X — and what they’re ostensibly about now.

The answer to that last bit is — say it all together now — family. Fast X could not underline this theme any more clearly. This is a film with zero subtext, where characters state their motivations and explain what they’re about to do in the clearest of terms right before they do it. (“It’s a big-ass bomb!” a character says at one point, upon the reveal of said big-ass bomb. “I’m going to go kill the guy who’s trying to defuse my bomb,” Dante tells a flunky a few minutes later.) This bluntness is mostly just giggle-inducing. But it is helpful in the sense that, if a viewer happens to miss one of Fast X ’s many references to other Fast and Furious movies, another character will pop up to explain the connection moments later.

Fast X also lays out Universal’s master plan for the series by constantly underlining the importance of legacy and passing knowledge down through the generations , preemptively setting up a future reboot where Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) hands the car keys over to his son Little B (Leo Abelo Perry) after the epic three-part conclusion to the current saga is complete.

Fast X also passes the baton in terms of its supporting characters, introducing two new members of “the Agency” that controls the fates of Dom and his crew. Tess (Brie Larson) is the daughter of Kurt Russell’s Mr. Nobody, who’s currently “deep in hiding” (read: probably going to show up in a post-credits sequence at some point) after his plane was ambushed at the beginning of the last movie. Aimes (Alan Ritchson) is Mr. Nobody’s successor who’s out to get Dom and his friends until he isn’t.

New characters related to old characters also pop up on the good guys’ side, and our familiar friends — Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), Mia (Jordana Brewster), Han (Sung Kang), Tej (Chris “Ludacris” Bridges), Roman (Tyrese Gibson), and Ramsey (Nathalie Emmanuel) — are there as well. Jakob (John Cena), the antagonist from the last movie, has been incorporated into Dom’s circle of trust, and even super-hacker Cipher (Charlize Theron) shows some temporary loyalty to the crew. And that’s not including the cameos!

At this point in their lives, Dom and Letty have settled down and become square parents — ones who keep guns with silencers in their night tables, but square parents nonetheless. They approach their lives and work with utter seriousness, whether they’re trying to stop a bomb or teach Little B the ropes. This makes them two of the least compelling characters in the movie. Their partners in crime (or heroism, depending on which movie you’re thinking of), meanwhile, are still cutting it up like old times. But while Han is on the dating apps and Tej and Roman still spend their days playfully teasing each other, the gags are starting to feel stale.

The characters having the most fun are both new additions to the franchise: Cena, doing a variation on his meathead rocker schtick from Peacemaker , brings fun uncle energy to his scenes. And Momoa? Well, the best way to describe his performance in this movie is as a nepo-baby Joker, embracing chaos and destabilizing Dom’s extended family while wearing pastel nail polish and silk shirts unbuttoned to the navel. He even rips off a line from The Dark Knight when he says: “Some men want to save the world. I just want to punish it.”

Given Dom’s habit of acquiring family members (a point Aimes lampshades by complaining about the Fast and Furious “cult” that keeps recruiting former enemies), there are a lot of characters to keep up with in Fast X. By necessity, director Louis Leterrier (taking over from longtime Fast and Furious mastermind Justin Lin, who left in early production) splits them up into parallel globe-trotting adventures. Some of these are more exciting than others: Tej, Roman, Ramsey, and Han spend most of the movie shopping for underworld tech and catching up with old friends in London, for example.

And when the action does come in, it’s a different style than in the best Fast and Furious movies. Leterrier obviously augmented the chase scenes with CGI, and the hand-to-hand combat is shot in that piecemeal way where not a single punch or kick is shown in its entirety from throw to impact. The whole thing is devoid of any sense of scale or location — and that’s before the nauseating drone photography comes in.

Even the excitement factor comes second to the almighty IP in Fast X, as audiences are encouraged to spend the duration pointing at the screen in recognition, like Leonardo DiCaprio in the Rick Dalton meme . This film is full of callbacks and references, repeating some of the series’ best stunts in warmed-over sequences that mostly reveal how this was more fun the first time. It’s disingenuous to bemoan a subtlety that this series never had, but the emphasis on lore in Fast X introduces an emotion that’s deadly for a film like this one: boredom.

Fast X suffers from the same condition as latter-day MCU movies, where it’s so laden with internal mythology that it feels more like homework than popcorn entertainment. “The days when one man behind the wheel of a car can make a difference are done,” Aimes soberly informs Dom in the buildup to the film’s fiery, physics-defying action climax, which naturally involves one man behind the wheel of a car. Aimes is meant to be wrong in his prediction, and wrong-headed for even thinking it. But the days when a goofy, overstated line like that is enough to keep audiences coming back to this franchise may be waning, too.

Fast X opens nationwide in theaters on May 19.

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Fast X Is For the Fans

Our latest ride with the family doesn't quite reach the heights of Fast Five —but it's still fun as heck. And it has Jason Momoa.

Much has been made of how far Fas t has strayed from the original film, 2001’s The Fast and the Furious , in which a couple of amateur street racers stole DVD players—and the climactic scene was a quarter-mile race in Los Angeles. Fast-forward two decades, and Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and company have flown cars (multiple times), jumped buildings, raced a submarine, and soared into space. Fast X director Louis Leterrier , who took over Fast when veteran Justin Lin suddenly departed the project, is a full-fledged member of the Fast fan cult. He promised a return to the early days of the franchise, and, specifically, street racing. Unfortunately, when your characters have suddenly become a mix of James Bond, Ethan Hunt, and the Incredible Hulk, the stakes have been raised to such a heightened level that a gritty, old-school race feels out of place.

But the Fast installment that X is most easily compared to isn’t The Fast and the Furious , but rather Fast Five. It probably isn’t the shadow you want to live in, considering Lin’s 2011 masterpiece is the consensus high point of the franchise, and one of the best action films of its time. With a script co-written by Lin, X opens by showing Five ’s infamous safe heist through the streets of Rio de Janeiro via a new perspective: Dante Reyes (Jason Momoa), the son of Five big bad Hernan Reyes (Joaquim de Almeida). As seen in Five , Papa Reyes is killed. Dante is retconned into Fast and onto that bridge in Rio, as he barely survives. Jumping ahead 10 years, “the devil,” as he’s described by fellow villain Cipher (Charlize Theron), Dante lures Dom and the family to Rome to begin his vengeance tour. “Never accept death when suffering is owed,” he constantly declares.

There are at least five different movies going on within Fast X : reformed villain Jakob (John Cena) is now-jolly and fun-loving, and on a road trip with his nephew. Cipher and Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) are forced into a reluctant partnership (give us this spinoff!). Han (Sung Kang), Roman (Tyrese Gibson), Ramsey (Nathalie Emmanuel), and Tej ( Chris “Ludacris” Bridges ) are just kind of hanging out. For some reason, The Agency gets a full-blown expansion, featuring Aimes, Little Nobody (Scott Eastwood), and Tess (Brie Larson). Then, by far, the most entertaining film-within-an-overstuffed film, is the cat-and-mouse game between Dom and Dante. There’s plenty of fun to be had in Fast X , whether it be Cipher and Letty’s brutal fight, or a never-ending pursuit of a bomb through Rome. While Fast X is far from reaching the heights of Fast Five , or one of the other top-tier Fast s, it does have something that the previous films can’t compete with: MOMOA.

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Having now seen the film twice, it’s still hard to believe that Momoa’s hilariously weird and insane performance was allowed in a reported $340 million blockbuster. Here’s just a small list of things that Dante does in Fast X : he curtsies and says “enchanté” when he first meets Dom, paints the toenails of dead men, licks a hostage, and calls Dom a butthole. Still, that’s not even doing it justice. Momoa is the definition of going for it —and the Aquaman star being turned up to 100 is worth the price of admission alone.

Fast X is (allegedly) the penultimate installment of the series, and the first in a two-part grand finale. Leterrier isn’t afraid to fall back on using the earlier films as references and Easter eggs; diehards might not even catch the shoutout to Los Bandoleros , a 2009 short film written and directed by Diesel that served as a Fast 4 prequel. Some might think that it’s bad business to make a movie that might require homework or a working knowledge of the Fast Universe, but Fast X is the 10th film in a franchise that has raked in more than $6 billion around the globe—there’s an existing audience that has been locked in for 20 years. It’s unlikely that newcomers will finally give Fast a chance because, say, Rita Moreno is joining the family as Dom’s abuela. So you might as well appeal directly to those who have traveled from the streets of Los Angeles all the way to space.

That said, in comparison to the last film, F9 , Fast X is an improvement. When positioned as a sequel to Fast Five , asking for judgement alongside that level of perfection, X falls short. Fast Five was a heist film that felt like a big departure from Fast 1 , but it still had some of the same ingredients and heart. It worked because of the impressive, but practical, action set pieces and the beloved family all being together. (Plus Dwayne Johnson’s unforgettable Fast debut.) Meanwhile, X tries to recapture some of the Five magic, but with too much going on and the characters completely separated.

Then, suddenly, X remembers that it’s supposed to be the Infinity War to Fast X Part II ’s Endgame , concluding with, at minimum, four major cliffhangers. The instinct is to leave the theater annoyed that you’ll be waiting two years for resolution, especially considering the obvious: the characters whose fates are left up in the air will survive. And yet, two shocking tags will have real fans buzzing on their way out. So, even if Fast X largely gives you the sense that the end of the road should be imminent , Part II is set up to be an epic swan song.

And yes, I can’t quit this cult.

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It's in cinemas from Friday.

We had thought Fast X was going to be the first of a two-part finale, but Vin Diesel recently let slip that it could well the first movie of a climactic trilogy . It would be a fittingly, uh, understated way to end a series that was originally about street racing, but has become an entirely different beast.

Subtlety has never been in the Fast Saga's wheelhouse, so it will be no surprise to learn that their approach to a multi-part finale is to go massive, setting up far too many plot threads that one movie can't tie up. In fact, Fast X barely manages to complete any and decides to just leave most of them open.

The result is an overstuffed blockbuster that doesn't satisfy as a complete whole, but works as another ride that's often ludicrously entertaining and elevated by the best villain in the series.

Fast X continues the series' penchant for retcons by revealing that Fast Five 's villain Hernan Reyes had a son called Dante ( Jason Momoa ). He was there during the safe heist and the final battle on the bridge but we never saw him, and he's been concocting his revenge against Dom (Vin Diesel) for a decade.

Don't worry if you either haven't seen Fast Five or haven't seen it in a while because Fast X recaps it whenever it can. All you really need to know is that Dante is pissed and he doesn't want to kill Dom as you "never accept death when suffering is owed".

It marks a refreshing change-up for the series which had increasingly fallen into comfortable plot mechanics: bad person wants some world-threatening high tech, Dom and his familia have to stop them.

Here, director Louis Leterrier plays with that expectation during a first-act heist in Rome which delivers everything you'd expect from a Fast movie. There's incredible car and motorbike stunts, a massive bomb rolling through the streets and a scarcely believable way for Dom to save the day that defies the laws of physics.

But rather than the set-up for the same old Fast movie, the heist is all a knowing misdirect as Dante is playing an entirely different game. It leads to Dom's familia being scattered around the globe, leading to a more grounded – well, in terms of this series – outing that avoids outlandish spectacle like space travel.

The issue is that the sprawling cast means that there are multiple subplots going on. As Dom tries to track down Dante, we've got a few of the gang in London, while Letty ( Michelle Rodriguez ) and nemesis Cipher (Charlize Theron) are at a CIA black site and Jakob ( John Cena ) is being a protective uncle in Los Angeles.

You'd assume that all of the subplots, including the shenanigans of new Agency head Aimes (Alan Ritchson) and Mr Nobody's daughter Tess ( Brie Larson ), would combine for a big finale. However, Fast X never really does this and each subplot seemingly exists to just set up the next movie.

Fast X might not go to space or have multiple huge set pieces, but it's still a massive movie because of this. The pacing isn't on the mark though, so we leave subplots for extended periods and if you didn't know there was a second part coming, you would leave frustrated with how the movie ends.

However, there is one shining light that just about keeps Fast X on track: Jason Momoa's Dante Reyes. He's the strongest villain of the series to date and Momoa is having the time of his life, delivering an excellent performance as he does so.

Dante is a flamboyant and theatrical baddie who absolutely loves what he does and as much as he hates Dom, he's also a bit of a fanboy and relishes battling wits with him. Like the switch-up with the plot, Dante is a world away from the usually serious Fast & Furious villains who are evil just because.

Momoa is so good that when Fast X has to switch lanes and catch up with the other subplots, his presence is sorely missed despite the typically reliable turns from the extended cast.

There's a playful edge to Dante's villain that spreads through other aspects of Fast X too. It's a series that's increasingly in on the joke, such as Roman (Tyrese Gibson) talking about invincibility in Fast 9 . A standout scene here sees Aimes moan about family BBQs and deliver deadpan lines about violating the laws of "God and gravity".

Fast & Furious fans certainly won't feel shortchanged by Fast X because as much as it changes the formula, it still delivers a lot of the same. There are deep-cut references, unexpected cameos and spectacle that no other series can deliver – after all, where else can you see helicopters used as wrecking balls?

The final act will certainly create discussion too that will tide Fast fans over until the 11th movie arrives in 2025 (assuming the writers' strike doesn't delay it). You'll know it probably won't do what it's teasing, but it'll be fun to speculate endlessly over.

But as much as the ending has an impact, it's hard to escape the feeling that Fast X is only half a story and forgot to tell a cohesive story of its own.

Fast X is released in cinemas on May 19.

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Over the course of the past 21 years, the Fast and Furious franchise has transformed itself from a movie about street racing and boosting DVD players to one of today’s most profitable and off-the-wall cinematic experiences with a slew of sequels, spinoffs, television shows, video games, and more. During that time, the movies have also gone from moderate box office successes to absolute juggernauts , with Furious 7 and The Fate of the Furious both eclipsing the billion-dollar mark worldwide. Even F9: The Fast Saga , which was released in a pandemic, brought in a large chunk of change upon its June 2021 theatrical release. All of this is to say that the franchise is here to stay, for a few more movies at least, with its 10th main installment, now officially known as Fast X , on the way. But before you grab your Corona, Von Dutch shirts, and start tinkering with your Dodge Charger, here are some things you should know about the ridiculously expensive blockbuster . 

Fast X Will Be Released May 19, 2023

If we were living in an alternate reality, we would have already seen Fast X in theaters and on Blu-ray by now (it was originally slated to open on April 2, 2021), and would be talking about all the ways to watch it and other Fast and Furious movies streaming instead of discussing its upcoming debut. But this is some good news as Fast and Furious 10 is now set to be released on May 19, 2023, which seems like one hell of a way to kick off the summer Blockbuster season. 

Jason Momoa’s Fast X Character Is A Villain

Over the years, the Toretto crew has come face-to-face with its fair share of furious villains ranging from Johnny Tran in The Fast and the Furious to the Cipher, who has become a perennial thorn in the side of the gang since being introduced in The Fate of the Furious . This time around, Dom and company will add another foe to the rogue’s gallery with the introduction of Jason Momoa’s Dante , a mysterious, flamboyant, and incredibly explosive criminal mastermind with ties to the group’s past. In an interview with Total Film (via GamesRadar ) in February 2023, director Louis Leterrier confirmed that Dante is the son of Hernan Reyes’ the ruthless crime lord at the heart of Fast Five who was killed by the Toretto gang when they were carrying out the film’s memorable and over-the-top heist sequence, thus serving as a connection between Fast X and 2011’s Fast Five . And years after his family was destroyed, Dante is coming back to do the same to Dom Toretto and the rest of his family. 

The Fast X Trailer Teases The Toretto Crew’s Biggest Adventure Yet

After what seemed like months of eager anticipation, longtime fans of the Fast and Furious movies (and newcomers alike) finally got to see what lies ahead for the popular movie franchise with the debut of the explosive Fast X trailer in February 2023. The nearly four-minute trailer, which gave a lot of screen time to Jason Momoa ’s Dante, teased what could be some of the biggest stunts so far, including a daring chase scene through Rome while explosions and giant globes wreak havoc on the Italian capital. 

But the trailer wasn’t solely dedicated to Vin Diesel evading death at every quarter-mile, as it also laid out Dante’s motivations and his plan to get revenge against those who took so much from him more than a decade ago. A short follow-up trailer was released during Super Bowl LVII a couple of days later that offered up even more heart-pounding action sequences, including one that saw Diesel drive down an exploding dam.

Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Sung Kang And Other Members Of The Toretto Crew Are Returning

It is hard to say exactly how the ever-expanding Fast and Furious family will fit into the series’ 10th installment just yet but we do know that most of the major players introduced over the years will be back for exhilarating and one logic-defying car chase after another. In October 2020, Deadline reported that not only would Vin Diesel be returning as Dominic Toretto, but Michelle Rodriguez ’s Letty Ortiz, Tyrese Gibson ’s Roman Pearce, Chris “ Ludacris ” Bridges’ Tej Parker, Jordana Brewster ’s Mia Toretto, Nathalie Emmanuel’s Ramsey, and Sung Kang ’s Han Lue would all be back for another round of heart-stopping action as well. During a June 2021 interview with EW , Vin Diesel revealed that franchise newcomer Cardi B will be returning as Leysa in Fast and Furious 10 , this time with a more expanded role. In April 2022, The Wrap confirmed that Charlize Theron would be back again as Cipher, the cyber terrorist who is once again on the loose following the F9 ending . The release of the Fast X trailer also showed the return of John Cena’s Dominic Toretto, Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw, and Helen Mirren’s Magdalene Shaw, who have all become major parts of the franchise in recent years. 

Jason Momoa, Brie Larson And Daniela Melchior Have All Joined The Fast X Cast

There is always room for more seats at Dominic Toretto’s table, and so it should come as no surprise that the Fast X cast just keeps getting bigger and bigger. In January 2022, it was revealed that Aquaman himself, Jason Momoa was joining the franchise in an unnamed antagonist (later confirmed to be a baddie named Dante), officially adding himself to the long list of furious villains that have tested the Toretto crew physically, mentally, and spiritually. In March 2022, Momoa described his character as "bit of a peacock" when speaking with Variety . More casting news came in March 2022 when it was revealed that The Suicide Squad breakout start Daniela Melchior joined the franchise in an undisclosed role. But DC doesn’t get to have all the fun in Fast X , as Captain Marvel star Brie Larson, who previously pitched herself for the franchise , was revealed to be joining the Fast X cast in an Instagram post by Vin Diesel. It has since been revealed that Larson will play a government agent of some sort named Tess, according to Empire Online . We will also be introduced to a new member of the Toretto family, as Rita Moreno is slated to appear as Dom's grandma. 

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Fast X Will Be The First Chapter Of The Franchise’s Two-Part Finale

Upon its release, Fast X will be a part of something much larger than one supersized action-adventure film; in fact, it will be the first chapter in a two-part finale for a franchise that kicked off 21 years ago. When news first surfaced that Universal Pictures was planning to complete the Fast and Furious franchise (at least the mainline series) in the very near future, Deadline reported that instead of taking a traditional sequel model for the final two installments, longtime franchise director Justin Lin would tell one big story over two movies, starting with Fast X . When speaking with Empire Online in February 2023, director Louis Leterrier teased that “a war” was brewing, which makes it seem like Fast X is just the beginning of the final chapter of the exciting action franchise. 

Vin Diesel Has Said Fast And Furious 10 Is Split In Two Because There’s So Much Ground To Cover

The Fast and Furious franchise isn’t for everyone, but no one can take anything away from the way the series has continued to up the ante over the years , going from the streets of Los Angeles to outer space and everywhere in between. This need to constantly up the bar is one of the reasons Vin Diesel said Fast X needs to be told over the course of two movies, as he explained at an April 2021 F9 trailer press conference (via GamesRadar+ ):

As you know, we get to travel to all these wonderful places. And they’re part of the reason why Fast [and Furious] 10 has to be broken into two different movies — it’s because there’s so much ground to cover. And there’s so many places in so many locations in the world that we have to visit.

This “so much ground to cover” statement carries a great deal of weight when you think about all the characters and stories that will need to be wrapped up, in addition to the locations, before the “Fast Saga” comes to a close.  

Louis Leterrier Has Replaced Justin Lin As The Fast X Director

On April 26, 2022, less than a week after production got started on Fast X , the film was dealt a major blow when its director Justin Lin stepped away from his duties behind the camera, which caused a pause in production. In a statement that was shared by Deadline , the director revealed that “with the support of Universal,” he made the “difficult decision” to exit the movie, though he would stay on as a producer. Lin has since gone on to find his first project following his Fast X departure.

The pause didn’t last all that long as Universal hired Louis Leterrier to replace Lin on Fast X in early May 2022, a little less than a week after the saga first began. According to Variety , Leterrier, whose previous efforts include The Incredible Hulk and Clash of the Titans , beat out several other candidates for the job. When promoting the upcoming Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves at San Diego Comic-Con 2022, Michelle Rodriguez sang Leterrier’s praises to The Hollywood Reporter , saying the French director brought an “energy of love” to the production and that the cast and crew were lucky to have him. 

Fast X Will Not See The Return Of Dwayne Johnson’s Luke Hobbs

As great as it would be to see Dominic Toretto and Luke Hobbs cross paths once more in the Fast and Furious franchise, it doesn’t look like it’s in the cards as Dwayne Johnson has stated that he will not be returning for Fast X or its follow-up. In July 2021, Johnson told The Hollywood Reporter he wished the cast and crew the best of luck on the Fast and Furious movies that “will be without” him. And I guess this means the franchise will miss an opportunity to have Johnson and John Cena face-off unless he shows up in Hobbs and Shaw 2 , if it happens.  

What's Expected Beyond The Fast And Furious Movies

Even though the mainline Fast and Furious story will be coming to a close following the release of the 10th and 11th films in the franchise, this doesn’t mean the universe that has been created and built up over the course of the past 20 years is going anywhere anytime soon. In fact, there are multiple spinoff movies in the works at this time. First, there’s the follow-up to the successful Hobbs and Shaw , which brought in $759 million worldwide in 2019, per Box Office Mojo . And while it remains unclear if we’ll get to see the odd couple of the action genre return for Hobbs and Shaw 2 , a sequel has been in the works going back to March 2020. Then there is the long-in-the-works female-led Fast and Furious spinoff, which admittedly sounds like the right call considering all of the great female characters introduced over the years. And judging by comments made by Universal Pictures Chairwoman Donna Langley in October 2022, this project is very much something the studio would like to  make a reality. When addressing the future of the Fast and Furious franchise during an June 2021 interview with Vulture , Vin Diesel touched on a potential story that has reportedly been discussed as far back as 2009’s Fast and Furious , but stopped short of saying if that story would be a prequel of spinoff, only saying: 

I will say that there is nothing that is off the table.

That same month, Diesel told Variety that he had writers working on a Fast and Furious spinoff centering on Charlize Theron’s character, Cipher, though there haven’t been any updates since. And then there were the comments Diesel made during a February 2023 Variety interview in which he said he wanted Robert Downey Jr. to be the “antithesis of Dom.”

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Be on the lookout for more about Fast X in the coming weeks, as the promotional rollout will surely only get more intense between now and its May 19, 2023 release. In the meantime, take a look at the 2023 movie schedule to see what’s coming out on the road to Fast X or take a trip down memory lane by watching all the Fast and Furious movies streaming .

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When a crime brings them back to the mean streets of Los Angeles, fugitive ex-convict Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and agent Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) reignite their high-octane feud. However, when a common enemy rears his head, Dom and Brian must learn how to work together and trust one another in order to defeat him.

Rating: PG-13 (Intense Sequences of Action|Drug References|Intense Sequences of Violence|Language|Some Sexual Content)

Genre: Action, Mystery & thriller

Original Language: English

Director: Justin Lin

Producer: Neal H. Moritz , Vin Diesel , Michael Fottrell

Writer: Chris Morgan

Release Date (Theaters): Apr 3, 2009  wide

Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2015

Box Office (Gross USA): $155.0M

Runtime: 1h 47m

Distributor: Universal Pictures

Production Co: Original Film, One Race Productions

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Dom Toretto

Paul Walker

Brian O'Conner

Michelle Rodriguez

Jordana Brewster

Mia Toretto

Jack Conley

Chris Morgan

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Amanda Lewis

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Samantha Vincent

Neal H. Moritz

Michael Fottrell

Brian Tyler

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This is ultimately the most forgettable of the Fast films. It's not the worst, it's not even that bad, but the fact is every time I see it there's only a handful of parts I end up remembering from it. Racing through the tunnels is cool, Dom's quest for revenge has power, and the confrontation boiling into brotherhood between him and Brian is interesting. That being said, the actual plot is weirdly convoluted with a villain who's just not that interesting, and there's a surprising amount of down time. I'm not opposed to drama in these movies, but in this case it's just not handled that well and can get a little boring. Bottom line, this was a transition movie. It was meant to bridge the gap between the Fast movies as street racing films to action heist films, and it ultimately accomplishes that. If you're doing a marathon of the films it's narratively important, but it's not one that I feel the need to go back to for any other reason.

With a few meandering and unproductive features, 'Fast & Furious' takes the series to new grounds. Bringing back familiar faces but finally implementing some much needed emotional depth, the fourth installment was the best of the franchise to that date. Back after a short hiatus are Vin Diesel and Paul Walker playing Dom Toretto and Brian O'Connor respectively. Not that the previous two films were entirely pointless, but Dom and Brian are the heart of the films. Without them, you don't get the same feeling of family and meaningful relationships. 'Fast & Furious' may not feature the high-octane stunts and action that its successors do, but it brought the series back to being about family, and particularly the drama that sometimes goes on between family. O'Connor is miraculously back to being an FBI agent after betraying their trust multiple times in the past, but with this series that type of stuff doesn't matter. Toretto is on the run once again since he went missing following the events of the first film. As ridiculous as it is to see Brian once again after Dom, I feel like it was the one last obstacle these two needed before they gained back each other's trust. Once they do, the film takes off. I love all the tension between Brian, Dom, and Mia, especially knowing where all of them end up. But I also love watching the cast drive insanely fast cars at ridiculous speeds and wreck every bit of them. The fourth film still tries to tell a lame undercover racing/drug/crime story with its villain, but the rest of it is a hell of a ride. The supporting cast includes the likes of Michelle Rodriguez, Gal Gadot, Sung Kang, Jordana Brewster, and John Ortiz. The latter plays the villainous Campos and probably has the most depth and/or personality out of any previous F&F antagonist. Rodriguez is back as Letty, who's death (being a central plotline to the film) is probably the most complicated and convoluted death I've ever seen from any franchise, and I'm still not sure I know exactly what happened. Overall, Fast & Furious progressed the series back to its Toretto vs O'Connor roots, but managed to finally give us the balance of emotion and action that we've wanted. It also happens to be the film that set up what is now more of a heist franchise than it is full of big muscles and muscle cars. +Dom & Brian +Finally balances emotion and action +Supporting cast is written and acted very well -Letty's death & Brian's time with the FBI is still puzzling 8.2/10

Paul Walker's character gets a job again with the FBI, but now has to get Vin Diesel to help take down a heroin importer. The writer/director team that made Tokyo Drift come back for this one and it's not much better. Luckily this time they have a few actors/characters from the original story to use, not like it helps. Paul Walker just doesn't get that if you suck at acting, you might want to take some lessons. But then again, after every one of these flicks that gets made, he's pointing and laughing at all of us all the way to the bank.

Fast & Furious exists in the awkward between space of the franchise. After it actually had anything to do with racing to engage the car-fans, but before it got over the top fun to engage the action-fans. The result is thoroughly underwhelming. Better than Tokyo Drift, but still rubbish.

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Fasten your seatbelts as everything smashes into everything else in this not-quite finale to the Fast and Furious franchise

T he Fast and Furious series began with a souped-up, street-racing B-movie that metastasised into a behemoth Mission: Impossible style franchise with explosive FX set pieces that defied the laws of physics and drama alike. A recent outing strapped a rocket on to a car and shot key cast members into space; this 10th chapter sends what looks like a miniature Death Star crashing through the streets of Rome to blow up the Vatican. Hey ho.

Old enemies become friends (and vice versa) and scenic locations (London, Portugal, Antarctica) are whistlestopped, while familiar faces (living and dead) get crowd-pleasing cameos and everything smashes into everything else. At one point a car jumps out of an aeroplane and hits the road running, only to take flight once more thanks to some exploding helicopters, before later turning into a submarine. Disbelief is not so much suspended as detonated.

On the human front, Vin Diesel delivers endless gravelly speeches about “fambly”, Michelle Rodriguez reminds us that she’s more than a match for any muscle-bound man, and Jason Momoa camps it up entertainingly as a ballet-obsessed villain of no fixed hairstyle. Strap in; there’s more of this overcranked finale nonsense on the way.

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From bursting out the nose of an exploding plane, to skipping skyscraper to skyscraper, to gently guiding a bank safe across public roads and additional civil engineering, the Fast & Furious franchise has made its mission delivering more outrageous action than the previous movies could ever muster. And as the stunts got crazier for Dom (Vin Diesel), Brian (Paul Walker), Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) and the whole F&F -in’ family, critics were just as willing to go along for the ride. It was finally the fifth Furious film that earned the franchise’s first Fresh. And since then it’s been on a skyward trajectory, like a souped-up Karmann Ghia ramping off an Arrakis sandworm and barrel rolling between a fleet of nuclear dirigibles (you know we’re heading in this direction). Furious 7 reached a high emotional crescendo in the wake of Walker’s death, while follow-up F8 saw a dip, though stayed in the Fresh lane.

Furious 7 (2015) 81%

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Fast & Furious 6 (2013) 71%

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019) 67%

The Fate of the Furious (2017) 67%

F9 The Fast Saga (2021) 59%

The Fast and the Furious (2001) 54%

Fast X (2023) 56%

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) 37%

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Fast X trailer, release date, cast and everything we know so far

We're Fast10'ing our seatbelts for Fast X, aka Fast & Furious 10

Fast and Furious 10 is now Fast X, and while it's almost here, we just got news about the future of Fast & Furious movies. Fast X isn't the penultimate chapter, it's the first part of a trilogy. So says reporter Erik Davis who tweeted that "Vin Diesel just seemingly confirmed that FAST X is not part one of a two-part finale -- it is part one of a three-part finale!"

There is a bit of bad news, though: One cast member you may be wishing was coming back for these films. More on him below. That said, of course, expect spoilers for Fast & Furious 9 below. This is your warning.

Also, we've just gotten a bit of casting news to add to the likely list of series regulars we expect to see back in the driver's seat(s). It's amazing to think, though, about how a rag-tag group of motor-heads went from betting on cars to saving the world. Here's everything we know right now about Fast and Furious 10.

Latest Fast X news (updated May 12)

• It sounds like Fast X is going to have two more sequels!
• The first Fast X trailer is here!
• Some bad news: director Justin Lin has left Fast X.

Fast X trailer

"Let's race!" Remember the safe heist from Fast Five? The Fast X trailer reveals that Jason Momoa's character was ruined by the gang's actions, and that's why he's out for revenge. It also presents Jakob (John Cena), Dom's brother in action with his family, and we see Brie Larson's new character is on our heroes' side.

Fast X release date changes

Universal has had to change the Fast and Furious 10 release date — it is now May 19, 2023 (formerly April 7, 2023). This means you have more than enough time to watch the Fast and Furious movies in order on any of the best streaming devices . 

This puts it a bit in front of Mission: Impossible 7 , the other big Summer 2023 movie, which is due on July 14. 

Originally Fast and Furious 10 (or whatever they wind up calling it) was due in April 2021. But with production delays and slowdowns due to the COVID-19, the movie won't be accelerating into theaters.

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Star Vin Diesel confirmed to Entertainment Weekly that filming on the movies will begin in January 2022. We say "movies" because it seems like Fast 10 and Fast 11 may be just Fast 10 parts 1 and 2.

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The bad news right now overshadows the below casting news. Director Justin Lin, who has been with the series since The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, and directed Fast Five (widely thought of as the rebirth of the series) has left Fast X.

Lin revealed the news in an Instagram post that doesn't explain why he's leaving, though he notes he will stay on as a producer. Since we just saw F9 on opening night, we've got a firm grasp on who to expect back for Fast and Furious 10. And since none of our main crew saw the end of their careers in F9, we believe Fast and Furious 10 could have the biggest cast yet. 

Vin Diesel recently announced that Brie Larson is joining Fast X's cast, with a post of him and the Captain Marvel star cracking up on Instagram .

And then The Hollywood Reporter broke the news about the latest megastar to join the Fast & Furious world. Jason Momoa, the outlet reported, "is in final negotiations to join" the film and he "could be one of the film’s villains."

Here's who's left over from Fast & Furious 9's main cast:

• Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto
• Michelle Rodriguez as Letty 
• Jordana Brewster as Mia Toretto
• Chris Bridges as Tej
• Tyrese Gibson as Roman
• Nathalie Emmanuel as Ramsey
• Sung Kang as Han
• Charlize Theron as Cypher
• Helen Mirren as Queenie
• John Cena as Jakob Toretto

Also, expect more Cardi B, who plays new character Leysa — a woman with ties to Dom's past. At the film's premiere, he told ET that Leysa will return in Fast 10, saying "We are very much excited to evolve her character and to expand it to the finale ... She made it just in time."

Remember when I said I had some bad news? Dwayne Johnson told The Hollywood Reporter that he won't be back for the mainline Fast movies. After mentioning that he laughed when hearing Vin Diesel's comments about their version of method acting, Johnson noted "And I wish them the best of luck on Fast 10 and Fast 11 and the rest of the Fast & Furious movies they do that will be without me.” 

Will Jason Statham come back as Deckard Shaw, as the Fast and Furious 9 credits scene suggested he and Han will settle unfinished business? That's just as likely for Hobbs and Shaw 2, as we'll explain below.

When Digital Spy asked about who else Diesel wants in the Fast Universe, he noted "Personally, I would just love to have my mate Michael Caine be a part. He's a part of Witch Hunter, grateful to have worked with him on The Last Witch Hunter. I think you have to wait until Fast 10 to see who's coming."

Fast and Furious 10 isn't the only sequel coming

Yes, Fast family, F10 isn't the final race. Fast and Furious 11 is already locked in, per a Vin Diesel interview with the Associated Press . Fast and Furious 10 and 11 are essentially going to be a two-part movie, think Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame — just with a lot more cars.

That said, we also know there will be more than just that 11-part Fast Saga. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw producer Hiram Garcia told ComicBook.com that plans are in motion for a Hobbs & Shaw 2, which we are fully on board for. 

In a Sirius XM interview, the whole cast agrees that there should be an all-female Fast Cinematic Universe spin-off. Chris Bridges was the first to suggest the idea in the call, and he declared that Helen Mirren better be in it. Jordana Brewster suggested that Eva Mendes could also come back.

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The fast & furious hobbs spinoff: confirmation, story & everything we know.

Fast X brought back Luke Hobbs and pit him against the new villain Dante Reyes, setting up a Hobbs spinoff movie with Jason Momoa and Dwayne Johnson.

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• Fast X sets up the franchise's future with a Hobbs standalone movie and introduces Dante Reyes as the new villain.
• Fast X ends with huge cliffhangers, including Dom and his son in danger, Gisele's return, and a post-credits scene with Hobbs.
• The Fast & Furious Hobbs spinoff is confirmed by Dwayne Johnson, with Jason Momoa rumored to reprise his role as Reyes.

Fast X set up a lot of the franchise's future, including a Hobbs standalone movie, and there's already tons of Fast & Furious Hobbs spinoff news. The tenth Fast & Furious movie introduced Dante Reyes (Jason Momoa) as the series' new villain and was the beginning of the epic two-part finale of the franchise. Fast X ended on several huge cliffhangers, the first of which is Dom and his son stuck at the bottom of a dam and surrounded by bombs that are about to detonate. The second cliffhanger sees Gisele (Gal Gadot), who was presumed dead, emerge from a submarine.

However, the most exciting cliffhanger was the post-credits scene, which brings back Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) . The scintillating scene establishes the conflict between Hobbs and Reyes by explaining that Hobbs killed Reyes' father during the events of Fast Five ​​​​​​. Though it was originally thought that the scene was only intended to set up Johnson's proper return in Fast & Furious 11 , or even Hobbs & Shaw 2, it turned out to be setting up a Fast & Furious Hobbs spinoff movie.

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A Rumored Title Is Revealed

The most recent Fast and Furious Hobbs spinoff news is that, based on the reported title, Momoa will be reprising his villainous role of Dante Reyes in the movie . This hardly comes as a surprise, as Dante's return in the spinoff is exactly what the post-credits scene hints at. The rumored spinoff title is Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Reyes , which follows the same pattern as Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw . The title also suggests that Reyes will have just as much screen time as Hobbs himself.

Another F&F Spinoff Is On The Way

The Fast and Furious Hobbs spinoff is confirmed. Johnson confirmed the Hobbs movie himself not long after Fast X was theatrically released, and interest was immediately piqued. Jonhson explained, " The next Fast & Furious film you’ll see the legendary lawman in will be the HOBBS movie that will serve as a fresh, new chapter & set up for FASTX: Part II. " However, while it's confirmed there's no other information about when the movie will go into production , and, as yet, there's no Hobbs spinoff release date.

Who Stars In The New Spinoff?

The only actor confirmed to join the Fast and Furious Hobbs spinoff cast so far is Hobbs himself , Dwayne Johnson. However, while there's not been an official announcement yet, the reported title of the movie heavily suggests that Jason Momoa will play Dante Reyes in the Fast and Furious Hobbs spinoff. As Hobbs struck a close relationship with Shaw (Jason Statham), it's possible that Statham could reprise his Fast & Furious role too, but anybody outside of Johnson and Momoa is purely speculation.

What Happens In The Spinoff?

Nothing is known about the Hobbs spinoff story. However, Johnson did confirm that it will bridge the gap between Fast X and Fast & Furious 11 . Based on the Fast X post-credits scene and the reported title of the spin-off, the movie will likely be a cat-and-mouse chase movie between Hobbs and Dante, and there's no doubt that it'll be full of explosive action. If that's the case, the Fast & Furious Hobbs spinoff movie has the potential to be the best film in the franchise in a while.

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'Fast & Furious' Franchise Speeds Onto Netflix

Relive every high-octane moment from the beginning as the thrilling, Vin Diesel-led action series arrives at its new streaming home.

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• The Fast and Furious franchise is coming home this August.
• In August Netflix will add popular titles like Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Lost in Translation , along with the first five Fast and Furious films.
• With over 20 years since the release of the first film, it's the perfect time to look back at the Fast and Furious franchise with fresh eyes and appreciate how far it has come.

It's about drive, of course, and power. But mostly, The Fast and the Furious franchise is about family . And you'll be able to bring the family home this August because the first five The Fast and the Furious films are coming to Netflix. That's right, you can close out this summer with a Fast and the Furious Netflix binge, in the comfort of your own home, and away from the oppressive heat. The first five Fast and the Furious films will be available to stream on the app beginning on August 1, 2023.

The Fast and the Furious films are among other favorites joining the streaming platform next month. Other titles coming to Netflix include Ferris Bueller's Day Off , Lost in Translation , Bee Movie , and Eat Pray Love . This isn't including new Netflix projects, such as Season 2 of Heartstopper on August 2 and the premiere of Netflix's live-action One Piece , which will premiere on August 31. August looks to be a sizzling month for Netflix.

A Fast and Furious Netflix Release

And the addition of the first five Fast and the Furious films is certainly a nice cap on summer. The summer kicked off with the premiere of Fast X , the tenth installment in the franchise. And though the film was met with an uneven box office turnout, there is no doubt that the original films have become certified classics . The franchise has, in its over 20-year run, developed a cult-like following among its fans, who often tout the franchise's very pro-family , pro-nuclear sub racing, message.

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The first The Fast and the Furious film originally premiered in 2001 and seemed to be typical of the early 2000s high-octane action films that occupied theaters at the time. Fast cars and gelled hair were nothing to take particular note of. However, the film, and its proliferated sequels, quickly established themselves as a different breed of film entirely, embracing the ridiculous and preaching a philosophy worthy of graduate school-level textual analysis. And since it has been over 20 years since the first film was released, it seems like the perfect time to look back at the franchise with fresh eyes and see just how far the more recent installments have come.

The first five The Fast and the Furious films will be available to stream on Netflix beginning on August 1, 2023. And if you want to see a more recent installment in the franchise, Fast X is now available to purchase on Video On Demand. The franchise stars Paul Walker , Vin Diesel , and Michelle Rodriguez among others.

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'Fast And Furious’' Ludacris Talks Saying Goodbye To The Franchise, And His Biggest Goal For The Final Film

Posted: March 26, 2024 | Last updated: March 26, 2024

Fans know a few details about "Fast & Furious 11" at this point, including the fact that it could very well be the final installment in Universal Pictures’ high-octane blockbuster franchise. And as of late, Vin Diesel and the cast have discussed the franchise’s conclusion. For them, the movie will mark the end of a cinematic journey, which has spanned decades. One of the series’ OGs, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, spoke with CinemaBlend about saying goodbye to this blockbuster behemoth of an IP. At the same time, he also opened up about his biggest goal for the film. Ludacris made his first appearance as Tej Parker in 2003’s 2 "Fast 2 Furious," with the character being established as a race host and friend of Brian O’Conner. The A-lister was then absent from the franchise for several years, before Parker resurfaced in 2011’s "Fast Five." Since then, he’s popped up in all of the films and has become a core part of Toretto’s crew. His fate – along with those of several others – is left unclear by the end of "Fast X" (which left fans with questions about FF 11). However, it’s more than fair to assume that he’ll pop up again for the gang’s last ride.

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