No. 1
The Fast and the Furious 2001
No. 1: the start of everything, and the best the series ever gets for Dom-and-Brian and for Vin Diesel. Took its title from a 1955 Roger Corman exploitation picture.
The Big Picture · Rankings · Review
‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings
June 25, 2021/ 61 min/ Sean Fennessey · Amanda Dobbins
Sean, Amanda, and superfan Shea Serrano rank all 10 Fast & Furious movies (the nine mainline films plus Hobbs & Shaw), then review F9. Family, magnets, a low-stakes space walk, and nobody walks away from the ranking happy.
11 films across 2 segments.
AI-generated This episode was transcribed and analyzed with AI models. The matches aren't perfect — expect the occasional misheard title or a link to the wrong film.
The 'Fast & Furious' Rankingswith Shea Serrano · best to worst, all 10
No. 2
Fast Five 2011
Where the franchise breaks open. Amanda's actual No. 1 (she agreed to No. 2 only in the spirit of family), and the safe dragged through Rio.
No. 3
Furious 7 2015
The Paul Walker send-off. The beach scene and the Wiz Khalifa song had the whole theater, Shea included, crying.
No. 4
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift 2006
Shea disliked it at first, now calls it the load-bearing film: take it out and the rest falls apart. Gets a big shout-out in F9.
No. 5
2 Fast 2 Furious 2003
John Singleton, fresh off Baby Boy, introduces Roman and Ludacris and the franchise's looser, funnier tone.
No. 6
Fast & Furious 6 2013
The best Letty movie (the subway fight, the Gina fights), plus the cargo-plane finale and the Shaw family's debut via the younger brother.
No. 7
Fast & Furious 2009
The fourth film. Barely registers for anyone except the Dom-vs-Brian fight over Letty's death.
No. 8
F9 2021
Ranked over Fate purely on the magnet set pieces. Everything around them (the space walk, John Cena) is take-it-or-leave-it.
No. 9
The Fate of the Furious 2017
Charlize Theron as the box-standing villain; Amanda's beloved baby set piece with Statham not quite enough to lift it higher.
No. 10
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw 2019
Last. Fake helicopter effects and none of the original DNA. Shea left it off his list entirely.
'F9'the review
F9 2021
Justin Lin back for the magnets, the NASCAR-car flip of Dom's father's death, and Han's return (Sung Kang, out of Lin's Better Luck Tomorrow). Sean didn't like it; the space walk plays too low-stakes; John Cena's heel turn never lands before he joins the family.
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