The Fast and the Furious (2001)
The film is loosely based on a magazine article, titled "Racer X",
about street clubs that race Japanese cars late at night. Elite street
racer and ex-convict
Dominic Toretto (
Vin Diesel) and his crew: Jesse (
Chad Lindberg), Leon (
Johnny Strong), Vince (
Matt Schulze) and Dominic's girlfriend Letty Ortiz (
Michelle Rodriguez), are under suspicion of stealing expensive electronic equipment. Brian O'Connor (
Paul Walker)
is an undercover police officer who attempts to find out who exactly is
stealing the equipment. He worked for FBI agent Bilkins (
Thom Barry) and LAPD officer Tanner (
Ted Levine).
Falling for Dominic's younger sister, Mia Toretto (
Jordana Brewster),
Brian later confesses to her his status as an undercover cop and
convinces her to come with him to save her brother and his friends from
the truck drivers, who have now armed themselves to combat the
robberies. He tracks Dominic's location by triangulating his cell phone
signal and they arrive at the hijacking in-progress to find Letty, badly
injured at the car accident, and Vince critically wounded, having
lacerated his arm and been shot by the truck driver. Brian and Mia work
together with Dominic, Leon and Letty to rescue Vince. Brian then makes
the difficult decision to blow his cover to the crew by phoning in for a
medivac. The revelation enrages Dominic, but he contains himself and
flees with Leon, Letty and Mia as the medivac arrives for Vince.
Brian follows Dominic to his house and holds him at gunpoint to
prevent him from fleeing. Jesse arrives shortly afterwards, apologizing
for his actions at Race Wars and pleading for Dominic's help with Johnny
Tran (
Rick Yune). Moments later, Tran and his cousin Lance Nguyen (
Reggie Lee)
perform a drive-by shooting, killing Jesse. Brian and Dominic chase
them, with Dominic driving his late father's modified 1970 Dodge
Charger. Dominic forces Lance's motorcycle off the road, severely
injuring him, while Brian shoots and kills Tran. Afterwards, Brian and
Dominic engage in an impromptu street race, narrowly avoiding a passing
train. Dominic collides with a semi-truck and rolls his car twice,
injuring himself, and rendering the Charger un-drivable. Instead of
arresting him, Brian hands over the keys to his Supra and lets Dominic
escape, using the line "I owe you a ten second car". After the credits,
Dominic is seen driving through Baja California, Mexico in a 1970
Chevrolet Chevelle SS.
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
Watched by undercover Customs Agent Monica Fuentes (
Eva Mendes), Brian is caught by US Customs agents and is given a deal by agents Bilkins and Markham (
James Remar) to go undercover and try to bring down drug lord Carter Verone (
Cole Hauser)
in exchange for the erasure of his criminal record. Brian agrees but
only if he is given permission to choose his partner, refusing to
partner with the agent assigned to watch him. Brian heads home to
Barstow, California, where he recruits Roman Pearce (
Tyrese Gibson),
a childhood friend of Brian who had served jail time and is under house
arrest, to help him. Pearce agrees, but only for the same deal Brian
was offered, and with the help of Monica, Brian and Roman work together
to take down Verone. After acquiring confiscated vehicles and being
hired by Verone as his drivers, the duo return to a Customs/FBI hideout,
where Roman confronts Markham over the latter's interference with the
mission. After the situation is cooled down, Brian tells Bilkins and
Markham that Verone plans to smuggle the money into his private jet and
fly off, but also suspects something wrong with Monica's role in the
mission.
Sometime later, Brian and Rome race two other would-be Verone drivers
for their cars and begin to devise a personal back up plan if the
operation goes awry. Rome confronts Brian about his attraction to Monica
and the constant threat of Verone's men. On the day of the mission,
Brian and Roman begin transporting duffel bags of Verone's money, with
Enrique (
Mo Gallini) and Roberto (Roberto Sanchez) riding along. Before the 15-minute window is set, the detective in charge, Whitworth (
Mark Boone, Jr.),
decides to call in the police to move in for the arrest, resulting in a
high-speed chase across the city. The duo lead the police to a
warehouse, where a scramble by dozens of street racers disorient the
police. Following the scramble, police manage to pull over the Evo and
the Eclipse, only to find out that they were driven by two members of
Brian's new crew, Tej Parker (
Ludacris) and Suki (
Devon Aoki), respectively.
As Brian approaches the destination point, Enrique tells him to make a
detour away from the airfield. Meanwhile, Roman gets rid of Roberto by
using an improvised ejector seat powered by nitrous oxide. At the
airfield, Customs Agents have Verone's plane and convoy surrounded, only
to discover they are duped into a decoy maneuver while Verone is at a
boat yard several miles away. As he knew Monica was an undercover agent,
he gave her the wrong information on the destination point and plans to
use her as leverage. When Brian arrives at the intended drop-off point,
Enrique prepares to kill him when Roman suddenly appears and the both
of them dispatch of Enrique. Verone makes his escape aboard his private
yacht, but Brian and Roman use the Camaro and drive off a ramp at
high-speed, crashing on top of the yacht. The duo manage to apprehend
Verone and save Monica. With their crimes pardoned, Brian and Roman
ponder on what to do next other than to settle in Miami when Brian
mentions starting a garage. Roman asks how they would afford that and
Brian reveals that he took some of the money, as Roman also reveals that
his pockets aren't empty, having taken money for himself.
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
After totaling his car in an illegal street race, Sean Boswell (
Lucas Black) is sent to live with his father, who is stationed as a
U.S. Navy officer in Tokyo, Japan, to avoid
juvie or even jail. While in school, he befriends Twinkie (
Bow Wow),
a "military brat" who introduces him to the world of drift racing in
Japan. Though forbidden to drive, he decides to race against Takashi (
Brian Tee), the "Drift King" who has ties to the
yakuza. He borrows a Nissan Silvia from Han Seoul-Oh (
Sung Kang),
now a business partner to Takashi, and loses, totaling the car because
of his lack of knowledge of drifting - racing that involves dangerous
hairpin turns. To repay his debt for the car he destroyed, Sean must
work for Han. Later on, Han becomes friends with Sean and teaches the
young racer how to drift. Takashi's uncle Kamata (
Sonny Chiba), a yakuza head, admonishes Takashi for allowing Han to steal from him. Takashi confronts Han, Sean and Neela (
Nathalie Kelley),
whereupon they flee. During the chase, Han is killed in an accident in
his Veilside Mazda RX-7 and Takashi, Sean and his father become involved
in an armed standoff which is resolved by Neela agreeing to leave with
Takashi. Twinkie provides his saved money to Sean to make up for Han's
stolen money which Sean returns to Kamata. Sean proposes a race against
Takashi to determine who must leave Tokyo. Sean and Han's friends then
build a Ford Mustang '67, with a Nissan Skyline inline 6 engine, and
others spare parts and Sean wins the race. Later, Sean is challenged by
an unnamed driver: Dominic Toretto.
Fast & Furious (2009)
Dominic and his new crew (Letty, Han, Leo, Santos and Cara) are
hijacking fuel tankers in the Dominican Republic. Dominic begins to
suspect the trail is too hot and leaves Letty behind in order to protect
her from harm. Several weeks later, in
Panama City, Dominic gets a call from Mia, who tells him that Letty has been murdered by Fenix Calderon (
Laz Alonso), after getting into a near fatal car accident. Dominic heads back to
Los Angeles to examine Letty's crash and finds traces of
nitro-methane. He then goes to the only car mechanic that uses nitro-methane and coerces him into giving him the name David Park (
Ron Yuan), the man who ordered the fuel.
Meanwhile,
F.B.I. agent Brian O'Conner (
Paul Walker) is trying to track down a drug dealer named Arturo Braga (
John Ortiz).
His search leads him to David Park. Dominic arrives at Park's apartment
first and hangs him out of the window by his ankles before letting go.
Brian, who was also on his way to Park's place, saves Park who now
becomes the FBI's new informant. Park gets Brian into a
street race through Los Angeles. Brian selects a
modified Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 from the Impound Lot. Dominic also shows up to race in his modified
1970 Chevrolet Chevelle. Gisele Yashar (
Gal Gadot), the liaison for Braga, reveals that the winner will become the last driver on a team that traffics
heroin between the
United States-Mexico border.
Dominic wins by bumping Brian's car, making him lose control. Brian
uses his power as an FBI agent to arrest another driver, Dwight Mueller (
Greg Cipes), and takes his place on the team.
The following day, the team meets one of the Braga's men. They drive
across the border using underground tunnels to avoid detection. Brian
had prior knowledge that, after the heroin was delivered, Braga ordered
the drivers to be killed. However it was revealed to Dominic from Fenix
that he killed Letty and after a tense stand-off, Dominic detonates his
car with nitrous to distract Braga's men and Brian hijacks a
Hummer
with US$ 60 million worth of heroin. Both Dominic and Brian drive back
to Los Angeles and hide the heroin in a police impound lot where Brian
picks up a modified
Subaru Impreza WRX STI.
Later on, Dominic finds out Brian was the last person to contact Letty,
which results in him being attacked by Dominic until he learns Letty
was working undercover for Brian, tracking down Braga in exchange for
clearing Dominic's name. Brian tells his superiors that in exchange for
Dominic's pardon, he will lure Braga into a trap, forcing him to
personally show up to exchange money for the heroin. At the drop site,
however, Ramon Campos (
Robert Miano), the man who claims to be "Braga", is revealed as a decoy, and "Campos", the real Braga, escapes and flees to Mexico.
Brian and Dominic travel to Mexico on their own to catch Braga. They
find him at a church and apprehend him. As Braga's henchmen come down to
rescue their leader, Brian and Dominic drive through the underground
tunnels back to the United States. When some of Braga's men are killed,
Brian crashes his car and is injured after being
T-boned by Fenix at the end of the tunnel. Before Fenix can kill Brian, Dominic, who survived the explosion and exchanged his
1970 Dodge Charger with a
1973 Chevrolet Camaro,
drives into and kills Fenix. As police and helicopters start streaming
to the crash site on the USA side, Brian tells Dominic to leave, but
Dominic refuses, saying he's tired of running. Despite Brian's request
for
clemency, the judge sentences Dominic to
25 years to life. Dominic boards a prison bus that will take him to
Lompoc penitentiary
and as the bus drives down the road, Brian and Mia, along with Leo and
Santos (who assisted in the Dominican Republic heists), arrive in their
cars to intercept it.
Fast Five (2011)
Following the events of
Fast & Furious, when Dominic is
being transported to a U.S. prison, Mia and Brian lead an assault on the
bus, causing it to crash and free Dominic. While authorities search for
them, the trio escape to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Awaiting Dominic's
arrival, Mia and Brian join their friend Vince and other participants on
a job to steal three cars from a train. The job goes awry when Brian
and Mia discover the train is carrying DEA agents and that the cars are
seized property. When Dominic arrives with the rest of the participants,
he realizes that one of them, Zizi is only interested in stealing one
car: the
Ford GT40. Dominic has Mia steal the car herself, while Brian and Dominic fight Zizi and his henchmen, with Zizi killing the
DEA
agents assigned to the vehicles. Dominic and Brian are captured and
brought to Zizi's boss, who orders the pair be interrogated to discover
the location of the car. However, they manage to escape and retreat to
their safehouse.
Dominic, Brian, and Mia are blamed for the murder of the DEA agents and
U.S. DSS agent Luke Hobbs (
Dwayne Johnson)
and his team arrive in Rio to capture him. While Brian, Dominic and Mia
examine the car to discover its importance, Vince arrives and is
revealed to be working for Reyes when he removes a computer chip from
the car. Dominic forces Vince to leave and, after investigating the
chip, Brian discovers it contains details of Reyes' criminal empire
including the locations of $100 million in cash, and plan on stealing
Reyes' money to start a new life. The trio organize a team to perform
the heist, recruiting Han, Roman, Tej, Leo, Santos, Gisele and Vince.
Hobbs and his team eventually find and arrest Dominic, Mia, Brian and
Vince. While transporting them to an airport for extradition to the
United States, the convoy is attacked by Reyes' men, killing Hobbs' team
and Vince. Hobbs is saved by Dominic, Brian and Mia as they fight back
against Reyes' men and escape. Wanting revenge for their murdered team,
Hobbs and Elena Neves (
Elsa Pataky) agree to help with the heist.
The gang breaks into the police station where Reyes' money is kept
and tear the vault from the building using their cars, dragging it
through the city with police in pursuit. Believing they cannot outrun
the police, Dominic makes Brian continue on without him while he attacks
the police and the pursuing Reyes, using the vault attached to his car
to smash their vehicles. Brian returns to kill Zizi, while Reyes is
badly injured by Dominic's assault. Hobbs arrives on the scene and
executes Reyes. Hobbs refuses to let the pair go free, but unwilling to
arrest the team, agrees to give them a 24-hour head start to escape. The
gang split Reyes' money, with Dominic leaving Vince's share to his
family, and they go their separate ways. In a
post-credits scene, Hobbs is given a special file by Agent Monica Fuentes concerning the hijacking of a military convoy in
Berlin. In the file, Hobbs discovers a recent photo of Letty, who was presumed deceased, revealing she survived the events of
Fast & Furious.
Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
Following their successful Rio heist, Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel)
and his crew of professional criminals have retired around the world:
Dominic lives with Elena, his sister Mia (Brewster) and Brian O'Conner
(Walker) have had a son, Jack. Gisele (Gadot) and Han (Kang) have moved
to Hong Kong and Roman (Gibson) and Tej (Ludacris) live in luxury.
Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) agent Luke Hobbs (Johnson) and his
partner Riley Hicks (Carano) investigate the destruction of a Russian
military convoy, believing former British Special Forces soldier Owen
Shaw (
Luke Evans)
and his crew are responsible. Hobbs tracks down Dominic and requests
his help in bringing Shaw down; Dominic agrees when Hobbs presents him
with a photo of Dominic's former girlfriend Letty Ortiz (Rodriguez),
whom he thought was dead. Dominic gathers his crew together (minus Leo
and Santos, who are still gambling their heist money inside
Monaco
casinos) and they accept the mission in exchange for full amnesty for
their past crimes, which will allow them to return home to the United
States; Mia and Elena remain with Jack.
The crew are led to Shaw's London hideout by one of his henchmen, but
it is revealed to be a trap intended to distract the crew and police
while Shaw's crew performs a heist elsewhere. Shaw flees by car,
detonating his hideout behind him and disabling most of the police,
leaving Dominic, Brian, Roman, Tej, Han, Gisele, Hobbs and Riley to
pursue him. Letty arrives to help Shaw, and shoots Dominic without
hesitation before escaping. Back at their headquarters, Hobbs tells
Dominic's crew that Shaw is stealing components to create a Nightshade
device which can disable power in an entire region; he intends to sell
it to the highest bidder. Meanwhile, Shaw's investigation into the
opposing crew reveals Letty's relationship with Dominic, but she is
revealed to be suffering from amnesia.
Roman, Han, Gisele, and Riley investigate a subordinate of Shaw who
reveals Shaw's connection to Arturo Braga, a drug lord imprisoned by
Brian (
Fast & Furious).
Brian returns to the United States as a prisoner to gain access to
Braga; Braga reveals that Brian will only get close to Shaw if Shaw
allows it, and discloses how Letty survived the explosion that was
thought to have killed her. Shaw went to finish her off but after
learning that she had no memory, he took her in. Aided by a former ally
in the FBI, Brian is released from prison. In London, Dominic races
Letty in a street racing competition. Afterwards, the pair talk and
Dominic returns her necklace. When she leaves, Shaw arrives and offers
to let Dominic and his crew walk away without harm, but Dominic refuses
to leave without Letty. Shaw tries to threaten Dominic by a laser aimed
gunman, Hobbs also aims at Shaw. Dominic says "two-bit government hack",
repeating what Shaw called him earlier. Shaw then leaves without
further incident.
Tej tracks Shaw's next attack to a NATO Spanish military base. Shaw
and his crew assault a military convoy carrying a computer chip to
complete the Nightshade device. Dominic and his crew interfere,
destroying the convoy while Shaw, accompanied by Letty, commandeers a
tank and begins destroying cars along the highway. Roman manages to
anchor his car to the tank, which Brian then pushes over a bridge,
flipping the tank. Letty is thrown from the tank and Dominic risks his
life to save her from falling to her death. In the aftermath, Shaw and
his men are captured, but he reveals that he has kidnapped Mia. The crew
are forced to release Shaw, and Riley (revealed to be working for Shaw)
leaves with him; Letty chooses to remain with Dom. Shaw and his crew
board a large aircraft while it is in motion on a runway while Dominic
and his crew give chase. Dominic, Letty, Brian, and Hobbs board the
craft; Brian rescues Mia and they escape using a car on board. The plane
attempts to take off but is held down by excess weight as Han, Gisele,
Roman, Tej, Brian, and Mia tether the plane to their vehicles. Gisele
sacrifices herself to save Han. Letty kills Riley and both she and Hobbs
leap to safety, but Dominic pursues Shaw and the computer chips. Shaw
is thrown from the plane as it crashes into the ground; Dom drives one
of the remaining cars through the nose of the plane and reunites with
his crew, giving the chip to Hobbs to secure their amnesty.
In the aftermath, Dominic and his team return to the United States.
Hobbs and Elena arrive to confirm the crew are free. Han is still
reeling from Gisele's death and decides to head to Tokyo as part of
their original plan to settle down there. Before Hobbs and Elena leave,
Dominic states that Elena does not have to go, but she responds saying
that this is his family and the police department is her family,
accepting that he chose Letty over her. As Dominic's crew gather to
share a meal, Dominic asks Letty if the gathering felt familiar; she
answers no, but that it feels like home. The scene ends with Roman
eating and Brian exclaiming, by house rules, that the former has to say
grace mirroring Dom's role at the first family meal he attended some
years before. In the
post-credits scene, taking place during the events of
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Han's death is revealed to have been caused by an unknown driver, Ian Shaw (
Jason Statham), who leaves Dom a threatening message and walks away.
Fast & Furious 7 (2015)
Fast & Furious 7 will follow the events of
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.
James Wan will direct the seventh film, replacing Justin Lin, who had directed the previous four films.
Vin Diesel,
Dwayne Johnson,
Michelle Rodriguez,
Jordana Brewster,
Tyrese Gibson,
Ludacris, and
Lucas Black will return to reprise their respective characters, along with
Paul Walker, who passed away in a fatal car accident before filming was complete.
[3][4] Jason Statham, who made a cameo appearance in
Fast & Furious 6, will portray the villain. Thai martial artist
Tony Jaa, UFC fighter
Ronda Rousey,
Kurt Russell,
Michael Jai White, and
Djimon Hounsou will also join the cast.
[5][6][7]
Filming commenced in September 2013, with the theatrical release
originally slated for July 11, 2014. Universal Pictures halted
production following the death of
Paul Walker
on November 30, 2013. On December 22, 2013, Vin Diesel revealed the new
release date to be April 10, 2015, via his Facebook account.
[3]
Future
Vin Diesel indicated that he loves
Fast & Furious 7.
[8]
Dwayne Johnson has expressed interest in future films in the series and
stated that there are plans for a spin-off film featuring his character
Hobbs, but that the Hobbs
spin-off would not be filmed or released until after the seventh film is released.
[9] Paul Walker
had stated that an eighth film was "guaranteed," with the studio also
wanting ninth and tenth installments; however, his death has now left an
uncertain fate for the franchise.
[3][10]
Short films
Turbo-Charged Prelude (2003)
Brian O'Conner (
Paul Walker) packs his bags and leaves
Los Angeles, before the
LAPD gets a chance to arrest him for letting
Dominic Toretto (
Vin Diesel) escape. While the FBI launch a national manhunt on him, Brian travels across
Arizona,
New Mexico, and
Texas, winning in every
street race he participates in, with his red
Mitsubishi 3000GT. However, he is forced to ditch his car at a motel in
Dallas
when police officers are notified of his presence. When they collect
the car, he manages to hitch a ride from an unknown woman, despite her
knowing who he really is. She drops him at a used car lot, with him
realizing she knows that he is a wanted man. There, he buys a green
Nissan Skyline GT-R R34.
Later, collecting money from street races, he modifies the car with new
rims and repaints it silver, with blue lightning vinyls on the sides,
before traveling eastbound and winning more races on the way. Upon
reaching
Atlanta,
Georgia, Brian heads south toward
Miami,
Florida, where he sees Slap Jack's Toyota Supra and Orange Julius' Mazda RX-7 (both
2 Fast 2 Furious characters) before the screen reads "2 be continued…".
Los Bandoleros (2009)
Leo Tego (
Tego Calderón)
is in a Dominican Republic prison, ranting about corporations holding
back the electric car and starting wars for oil. Meanwhile, on the
streets, Rico Santos (
Don Omar) chats to an old man unable to find enough gas. Han Seoul-Oh (
Sung Kang) arrives and is collected from the airport by Cara Mirtha (
Mirtha Michelle)
and Malo (F. Valentino Morales). They drive him back to Santos' house,
where his aunt Rubia (Adria Carrasco) is struggling with rising prices
linked to the cost of gasoline and Dominic is working on his car. The
team then enjoy a welcome meal with the family. After breaking Leo out
of prison, they head to a club, where Han and Cara flirt, while Dominic
meets up with local politician Elvis (
Juan Fernandez),
who informs them of a window of opportunity to hijack a gasoline
shipment. While relaxing at the club afterwards, Dominic is surprised by
the arrival of Letty, who has tracked him from Mexico. The two drive
together to the beach, where they rekindle their relationship.