‘Fast & Furious 5’: The film that transformed the Toretto saga forever and that laid the foundations for its end in ‘Fast X’

In 2001, Universal released a film that took advantage of the boom in tuningLatin music and illegal racing in the purest ‘Need for speed’ stylethe video game that was successful all over the world. ‘At full throttle’ (The Fast and The Furious) marked an entire generation of fans of the motor and motorsport worldalthough he was not one-armed in his action scenes either.

However, 22 years later comes the release of ‘Fast and Furious 10’ (Fast X)the tenth installment of a saga that has practically turned towards science fiction with cars in space, jumping between skyscrapers, falling from planesbeing chased by tanks or facing giant submarines on the ice.

How have the ‘Fast and Furious’ movies gone from one point to another? The answer is in ‘Fast and Furious 5’ (Fast Five), the movie that changed everything.

‘Fast and Furious 5’: From illegal racing to pure action

‘Fast and Furious 5’ was released in 2011, 10 years after the release of the original film. Universal Chairman Adam Fogelson called her “a transition movie” and said at the time about this installment: “We have heard many people say: ‘I have never seen one, and I have never wanted to see one,’ about the Fast and Furious saga. If these movies were still about street racing, we saw that there was a limit to how many people would buy a ticket.. We wanted to see if we could take it out of racing and make driving skills just a part of the movie, like those big chases in ‘The French Connection,’ ‘The Bourne Identity,’ ‘The Italian Job’…”

“The question ‘F&F 5’ posed for us was: Can we stop being a pure car culture movie and turn it into a true action movie franchise in the spirit of those big heist movies?“

The answer ended up being a resounding “yes”., of course. Although the change was huge, and Roman Pierce himself, Tyrone Gibson’s character who acts throughout the saga as the public’s self-awareness, defined it perfectly: “We have gone from ‘Mission Impossible’ to a milk brown“.

Somehow, ‘Fast and Furious 5’ managed to keep the old audience and add a vast new audience. Besides, In a move that replicated Marvel’s UCM, he brings back several of the characters from his universe: Vin Diesel and Jordana Brewster from ‘Full Throttle’, Ludacris and Tyrese Gibson from ‘Full Throttle 2’, Sung Kang from ‘Full Throttle 3: Tokyo Race’, Gal Gadot from ‘Fast & Furious 4’ and Paul Walker as the perfect Nick Fury gathering everyone. The new installment also added a new villain with the muscles of Thanos, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (Hobbs). ‘Fast and Furious 5’ was the film that brought Dominic Toretto’s “Family” together and, although it was technically the fifth installment of the saga, It’s actually the first of the franchise as we know it today..

‘Fast and Furious 5’: The prequel to ‘Fast X’?

Want a challenge for the kings of street racing that, at the same time, is a crazy chase worthy of the best action movies? Strap a giant vault to their tuned cars and have The Rock and all the corrupt officials in Brazil hot on their heels.

The scene, one of the best action scenes in recent years, set the bar for disbelief and breaking the laws of physics very high, but the following films in the ‘Fast & Furious’ saga have had no problem passing it by over with increasingly unlikely and spectacular situations.

The safe that Dom and his “family” walk around Rio de Janeiro like a dog on a leash contains the fortune of Hernán Reyes (Joaquim de Almeida), the drug boss of the local mafia that has terrified all the inhabitants of the favelas and bought off all the policemen in the city. By wiping out his Empire (actually it was Hobbs who pulled the trigger, but oh well), Toretto and company freed the entire city from their yoke, but What for many was good news, for others it was the worst of their life..

And here we come to Dante (Jason Momoa), the villain of ‘Fast and Furious 10’ and son of Reyes. Dante is someone who has studied Dom for a long time and he is ready for his last revenge attacking his familyjust as Dom did (unknowingly) at the time.

Just over a week left the beginning of the end of the road Dominic Toretto and his family. You are ready?