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 - The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

The Fast and the Furious franchise nearly died here. This movie failed critically and at the box office. It made $158.5m on an $85m budget, would’ve needed to have made about $200m to be profitable. I guess the success of the other 2 was enough to convince Universal to try again with 4, but it could well have died here.

So, what the hell happened here? Let’s take a look.