Fast Month - Fast and Furious 6

Fast and Furious 6 showed the success of Fast 5 was not an accident, making $788m at the box office, with a budget of $160m; it wasn’t quite as big a critical hit, though it still holds a respectable 69% on Rotten Tomatoes, with an average 6.2/10 with an IMDb rating of 7.1. But is it on the right path, or were the peaks reached in the last movie? Let’s take a look

Fast Month - Fast Five

We're through the preliminary stages here, this is where this franchise began to make the big bucks. The budget was increased to $125m but the sweet reward was earning over $600m at the box office, and this wouldn’t be the heights of this franchise’s success. And it’s the first to gain a more positive critical buzz with a 77% rating on Rotten Tomatoes (average 6.4/10) and a 7.3 rating on IMDb. What caused this sudden turnaround, let’s take a closer look.

Fast Month - Fast and Furious

How do you return your franchise to its roots? Apparently, you take the ‘thes’ out of your title. This is Fast Month

Vin Diesel and David Walker are back, and that’s all anyone will really care about. This movie had a budget of $85m, much like the last one, but was much more popular, making $363m, the next movie would go onto making nearly double that but back to business

Critically, this movie struggled to find its footing, a mere 29% rating on Rotten Tomatoes with an average 4.6/10, it was hardly picking up the slack from the previous movies. But it’s been a while now, how does it hold up?