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It's also worth pointing out that films three through eight are all written by Chris Morgan, who has become a kind of steward of the franchise’s characters.

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Gary Gray, who previously directed the 2003 “cool cars” movie The Italian Job.

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The eighth film is directed by series newcomer F. He's an expert at building tension, a skill he used to great effect throughout Furious 7. The seventh film was directed by James Wan, best known for his horror work on movies like Saw and The Conjuring. Here's a great example of how he establishes the geography of a major chase in Fast Five: Universal, GIF by Todd VanDerWerff/Vox What Lin understands intuitively is that action sequences require long shots that establish geography, so we have a better idea of what's happening to whom, and when. The next four films were directed by Justin Lin, one of the best action directors working right now. The second film was directed by John Singleton, a great director who also made Boyz N the Hood but who seemed to fundamentally misunderstand that a Fast & Furious movie should never be too serious. (He left with Vin Diesel to make XXX.) Cohen’s visual style - which mostly consists of making the world look all jittery and stretched out as those super-fast cars pass by - defines that first film in a big way. The first film was directed by Rob Cohen, and his departure from the sequel was seen as something the franchise might struggle to overcome. The Fast & Furious franchise consists of seven movies of gradually increasing mayhem, with an eighth hitting theaters on April 14, 2017. This is America reimagined as a fireball. Along the way, it freely appropriates tropes from the Halloween, Terminator, and James Bond franchises.īut underneath it all, Fast & Furious is a grand, glorious soap opera, with motor oil pumping through a heart measured in horsepower. It starts out as a low-key story of illegal street racers and eventually becomes, for all intents and purposes, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) but with cars. They're a testament to the bravery and diversity of this great land, to its boldness of spirit and openness of heart.Īnd, yes, to its ability to solve pretty much any problem by hurling a car at it.įast & Furious is a mutant hybrid horror of a movie franchise. They feature openly sentimental, oddly complex storytelling. They have a huge, talented, racially diverse cast. They boast a healthy affection for old-fashioned, practical effects work, where most of the cars we see crashing are really cars crashing, not sprites in a computer. The Fast & Furious movies stand as one of the best film franchises America has going for it right now - and maybe even a gloriously dumb representation of everything good about America.

That experience made me not just a convert, but an evangelist. Then I watched the first seven of them in a week. I had always been skeptical of the films' powers, perhaps because I had only seen 2 Fast 2 Furious (easily the worst installment) and Fast Five - without sound, while on a plane (still pretty awesome).

However, if you’re a Fast and the Furioussuper fan who has seen all of the movies, then the chronological watch order is a fun experience that will let you view the story in a whole new light.There was a time when I had seen but one and a half movies in the Fast & Furious franchise. Despite being prequels to Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious, Fast Five, and Fast & Furious 6 simply don’t look or feel like they take place before 2006. Watching Tokyo Drift after Fast & Furious 6 just feels like you’ve stepped into a time warp. This is especially noticeable due to the film’s heavy use of the Nissan 350Z and the Mazda RX-7, which are highly evocative of that specific era of sports car design. This is made worse by Tokyo Drift‘s aesthetic being so obviously and stereotypically early-2000s. Following this with the relatively low-budget street-racing focused Tokyo Drift just feels weird.

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Because of this, Fast & Furious 6 is packed full of spy and adventure movie elements, and it has a much higher budget than previous entries. Fast & Furious 6 and Fast Five moved the franchise away from its street racing roots in the hopes of giving the franchise a broader audience appeal.

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