Summary
Fast & Furious movies thrive on delivering over-the-top spectacle and impossible stunts that audiences find entertaining. The franchise has featured wild stunts like jumping cars, dragging a safe through a city, and even going to space in a car. Each movie challenges itself to top the previous one, with Fast X showcasing Dom driving down a dam to escape an explosion as the most ridiculous stunt yet.
With each new movie in the Fast & Furious franchise, Vin Diesel’s Dom Toretto and his crew pull off increasingly impossible and ridiculous maneuvers while driving sports cars. The Fast and the Furious kicked off the series with a relatively down-to-earth story about street racers who hijack trucks on the side. From there, the movies’ heist and espionage plots only grew in magnitude to include ongoing battles with gangsters, terrorists, and the law.
Dom and his right-hand-man Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker) and their family pull off wild stunts ranging from “jumping” cars, taking down planes, and literally going to space in a car. Fast & Furious fans know that what they are seeing is impossible and are even able to laugh at how ludicrous it is. Yet the Fast & Furious movies maintain a steady audience by repeatedly promising and delivering over-the-top spectacle. Each movie boasts at least one ridiculous stunt, with the upcoming Fast 11 challenged to top them all.
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11 The Fast And The Furious (2001)
Dom and Brian dodge a train.
The first Fast & Furious movie ends with Dom and his sister Mia (Jordana Brewster) discovering that Brian is an undercover cop, and Brian killing Johnny Tran (Rick Yune) to avenge Jesse (Chad Lindberg). Dom takes off in his Dodge Charger and Brian drives after him. Despite the betrayal, Dom and Brian have a moment of begrudging respect when they race each other one last time before going their separate ways.
Dom and Brian speed across a set of train tracks, narrowly avoiding an oncoming train. Dom then crashes his car and Brian gives up his, so Dom can flee the police. While this scene might have seemed implausible at the time, it is shockingly realistic compared to the rest of the franchise.
10 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
Brian jumps from land to a boat in a car.
2 Fast 2 Furious focuses on Brian and his childhood friend Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson) working with undercover U.S. customs agent Monica Fuentes (Eva Mendes) to bring down the drug lord Carter Verone (Cole Hauser). In the finale, Monica’s cover has been blown, and she is being held on Carter’s boat, while Brian and Roman are on land. In order to rescue Monica, Brian drives a car off a ramp to jump to the boat. Roman is panicking in the passenger seat throughout the sequence. This scene makes Brian shouting “Cars don’t fly!” at Dom several movies later somewhat ironic.
9 The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
Sean drifts through a crowded intersection without hitting anyone.
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift serves as a standalone that is primarily remembered for introducing fan-favorite character Han Lue (Sung Kang) – but even the worst Fast & Furious movie needs at least one impossible racing maneuver. Tokyo Drift depicts average American high schooler Sean Boswell (Lucas Black) quickly gaining driving abilities on par with most professionals. At one point, Sean is racing and drifts through a very crowded intersection without hitting anyone. The Fast & Furious characters always seem to avoid killing random pedestrians, but Sean was exceptionally lucky.
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8 Fast & Furious (2009)
Dom and Brian race through tunnels.
When they reunite in Fast & Furious with the common goal of tracking down the heroin trafficker Braga (John Ortiz), Dom and Brian find themselves racing through tunnels inside a mountain range. The tunnels are just wide enough for the cars to fit and there is little to no light. Yet they are able to drive with the same precision as if they had plenty of space in broad daylight.
In the final race, Brian smashes his way out of the tunnel and crashes. Dom causes another driver to crash, triggering an explosion that destroys the whole tunnel system. Dom then speeds out of the mountain just as it collapses, and just in time to save Brian from Fenix (Lazaro Alonso).
7 Fast Five (2011)
Dom and Brian drag a safe through a busy city.
The plot of Fast Five revolves around Dom, Brian, and Mia planning a $100 million heist to buy themselves new lives. They recruit various characters from past movies to accomplish this, including Han and Roman, along with Gisele Yashar (Gal Gadot) and Tej Parker (Chris “Ludacris” Bridges). In the movie’s climax, the crew attaches kingpin Hernan Reyes’ (Joaquim de Almeida) massive bank vault to Dom and Brian’s cars. They then drag the vault through Rio with impossible dexterity. They also manage to hand off the real vault to the rest of the crew and carry away a replacement.
6 Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
Dom launches himself out of a car and catches Letty in midair.
Fast & Furious 6 saw the return of Dom’s longtime girlfriend Letty Ortiz (Michelle Rodriguez), who Dom and the others believed to be dead. While Letty does not remember her relationship with Dom and is working with the movie’s villain Owen Shaw (Luke Evans), Dom is still determined to protect her. During a high-speed chase, Dom crashes his car into a highway wall to throw himself across the gap between two highway lanes and catches Letty in midair after she is thrown from the tank.
Letty later asks Dom how he knew there was a car to break their fall, and he says he didn’t. How this move worked at all is the bigger mystery. Then again, the crew does take down a plane using cars later in the movie, so nothing is impossible for them.
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5 Furious 7 (2015)
Dom jumps between skyscrapers in a car.
Dom manages to scare even Brian by jumping a car between skyscrapers in Furious 7. The team travels to Abu Dhabi to track down the God’s Eye, so hacker Ramsey (Nathalie Emmanuel) can use it to find Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham). They go undercover to a party in a luxurious skyscraper to retrieve the device from a car stored on one of the highest floors.
When a fight ensues, Dom and Brian take the car and Dom drives it at top speed, smashing through the skyscraper’s windows and launching the car into the next building. When it turns out the breaks are malfunctioning, Dom repeats this to jump to a third building. And yet Brian barely climbing up a bus hanging off the edge of a cliff and jumping to grab onto Letty’s car is a close second for Furious 7’s most ridiculous scene.
4 The Fate Of The Furious (2017)
Cipher launches a “zombie cars” attack.
Cipher is regarded as one of Fast & Furious’ best villains, who introduces a new level of terrifying yet absurd threats in The Fate of the Furious. In the Fast & Furious scene known as the “Raining Cars” or “Zombie Cars” sequence, Ciper hacks into the systems of every self-driving car in New York City and sends them all falling out of a parking garage at once. Despite the realism behind its execution, “Zombie Cars” is one of Fast & Furious’ craziest concepts – even crazier than Dom blowing up a submarine in the same movie.
3 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
Hobbs and Shaw bring down a helicopter with a truck.
In their own spinoff movie, Deckard Shaw and Agent Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) appear to have gained some of Dom’s ability to break the laws of physics. While on a mission to save the world from the cyber-genetically enhanced soldier Briston Lorr (Idris Elba), that movie’s main duo find themselves in a truck vs. helicopter fight. Shaw is able to drive the truck briefly into the air, so Hobbs can hook Brixton’s chopper with a cable. Hobbs and Shaw are able to avoid being pulled off a cliff and bring the helicopter down with several more trucks adding to their weight.
2 F9 (2021)
Roman and Tej go to space.
Roman and Tej going to space in a rocket-car in F9 tops everything else in the Fast & Furious franchise. In order to prevent Cipher from uploading the Ares device to a satellite, which will enable her to take control of the entire Earth’s digital network and weaponry, Roman and Tej are sent into space in a car outfitted with rocket boosters. They don space suits and take off from a plane. Fast & Furious’ space scene is the punchline of many jokes about how insane the series has become.
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1 Fast X (2023)
Dom drives into a dam and escapes an explosion.
Fast X has many ridiculous stunts, but none quite like Dom driving down the face of a dam to avoid a massive explosion. With his young son Brian (Leo Abelo Perry) in the car, Dom drives almost straight down, narrowly escaping the flames caused by two trucks crashing into each other, and lands in the water. This tops almost everything else in the movie, including smashing helicopters, making dangerous jumps between cars, and Dom lifting a car. Yet Fast & Furious is expected to produce more sequels in the future, which will doubtlessly include more ridiculous stunts.