The Safe Chase
As seen in: Fast Five

The backstory: Eager to appropriate Reyes's ill-gotten funds for their own pay day, the Fast crew busts into a police station and makes off with a cash-stuffed safe, dragging it through the streets of Rio.

Best moment: Dom pulls the safe forward while Brian pushes it in reverse before doing a 180 and driving alongside his partner.

Fun fact: The young boy who is briefly glimpsed watching the cars speed by from a bus is Lin's then 2-year-old son. He wasn't the most natural of performers, though. "We'd have the stunt guys tow the vault and he wouldn't look at it! We were finally able to get his attention on take three and he did it perfectly."

The Tank Battle
As seen in: Fast & Furious 6

The backstory: Dom's crew clashes with terrorist Owen Shaw on a highway in Spain, with Shaw piloting a full-size tank.

Best moment: Dom leaps through the air — and across a plunging gap — to rescue Letty.

Fun fact: According to Lin's DVD commentary track, this sixth installment was going to be a two-part extravaganza, with the first installment titled The Fast and the second The Furious. In that version, the highway chase would have been the final scene of The Fast, sending the audience out on a high note while they waited to return a couple months l ater to see The Furious.

The Runway Chase
As seen in: Fast & Furious 6

The backstory: Shaw is in the midst of fleeing the country armed with a computer chip when Dom shows up and puts a stop to his airborne escape plan.

Best moment: Dom drives his car through the nose of a burning plane.

Fun fact: On the commentary track, Lin says that he originally had the idea for this sequence after Fast & Furious, and it took him four years to bring it to life. At one point, it was going to be the big climax to Fast Five, but the director decided he didn't have the resources until the next chapter.

The Parachuting Cars
As seen in: Furious 7

The backstory: Tasked with rescuing kidnapped hacktivist Ramsey (Nathalie Emmanuel), Dom airmails his team to the winding mountain roads of Azerbaijan.

Best moment: Tej forcibly ejects a terrified Roman out of the cargo bay by deploying his chute ahead of schedule.

Fun fact: The crew worked closely with the U.S. Air Force to make this wild stunt a reality, filming it over an eight-day period along a section of Colorado's picturesque Pikes Peak Highway. "We wanted to d rop the cars from 12,000 feet and open the chutes at 2,500 to 3,000. The Air Force wanted us to drop them from 18,000 feet and open at 12,000," second unit stunt coordinator Andy Gill told Popular Mechanics in 2015^[4].

Dom's Tower Jump
As seen in: Furious 7

The backstory: Having secured the all-important God's Eye device, Dom improvises a bold escape plan: leaping between not just one but two skyscrapers in Abu Dhabi.

Best moment: The "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" look on Dom's face when he realizes the brakes are nonexistent and he's got to make a second leap.

Fun fact: Sorry to burst your bubble, but that vehicle isn't really hundreds of stories up in the air. Instead, the stunt team shot the car through windows that were rigged above an ordinary parking lot, where a heavily padded crash pad waited below. "We'd get the exit from one side, and then the entrance on another side," explains Gill in this behind-the-scenes video^[5]. "We did it multiple times for the different buildings it was supposed to go into."

Zombie cars in The Fate of the Furious. (Image: Universal)

The Smartcar Swarm
As seen in: The Fate of the Furious

The backstory: The mysterious Cipher (Charlize Theron) creates her own convoy by hijacking the "smartcar" computer systems, rendering actual human drivers unnecessary.

Best moment: It's already been teased in the trailer, but the sight of driverless cars swarming the streets of Manhattan under the command of Furiosa herself is enough to make you want to trade in your car keys for a bike helmet.

Fun fact: Here's one more way that The Fast and the Furious franchise is taking its cues from superhero cinema: The bulk of the Manhattan sequence was actually shot in Cleveland — the same city where the Avengers fought the "Battle of New York" at the end of that 2012 blockbuster.

THE WORST

Brian's Race

As seen in: 2 Fast 2 Furious

The backstory: Having fled L.A. for Miami, cop turned fugitive Brian makes his living by racing against drivers with names like Orange Julius and Slap Jack.

Why it's lame: Director John Singleton relies too heavily on green-screen and non-practical effects to create the illusion of speed. Instead, it all kind of looks like the characters and cars are sitting still on a soundstage.

The Relay Race
As seen in: 2 Fast 2 Furious

The backstory: Roman and Brian challenge a pair of muscle drivers to a race in order to pick up additional cars that will come in handy in the climax.

Why it's lame: Singleton remarks on the DVD commentary track that he was inspired by video games like Gran Turismo, and you can tell because the use of CGI throughout this sequence is distractingly obvious.

The Tunnel Chase
As seen in: Fast & Furious

The backstory: Dom and Brian pursue drug lord Braga and his henchmen through an underground tunnel that crosses the Mexico-U.S. border.

Why it's lame: A dark tunnel is just a really boring place to stage a car chase, especially compared with the exotic backdrops glimpsed in the other movies. It doesn't help that the driving action is as repetitive as the underground scenery.  

Race Wars
As seen in: Furious 7

The backstory: With her memory freshly restored, Letty gets back in the driver's seat to compete in the desert drag race that she and Dom invented.

Why it's lame: James Wan's visual imagination is perhaps best suited to improbable stunts like dropping cars out of planes or sending them careening between skyscrapers. Tasked with choreographing a straight-ahead road race, he creates a sequence that's disappointingly free of excitement or tension. The random, widely panned^[6] Iggy Azalea cameo doesn't help.

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