A noisy, testosterone-charged and utterly nonsensical mess of a movie.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 30, 2024

The equivalent of a drive-in special audiences savored in the '50s, this is no Rebel Without a Cause, but it will end up being a summer sensation with teens.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 30, 2024

Cohen's fast-paced, stylish direction pushes the hot and heavy excitement to the maximum, making the breakneck auto races, high-octane hijacks and crash-bang cop chases absolutely electrifying to watch.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2024

Director Rob Cohen's film feeds his audience junk food from a recipe of high-speed cars, decorative women, and lame action.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 5, 2023

This is an incredibly insincere look at dramatized cops and robbers.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 9, 2023

... pure pop fun, the best evocation of B-movie/exploitation film mythology of loyalty and honor among friends that American movies had achieved in some time.

| Jun 10, 2023

While other storytellers embraced high-concept action spectacle, producer Neal H. Moritz made a bet on old-school grounded action. While it took a decade for audiences to buy into the vision, the plan culminated in one of the definitive franchises.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 16, 2023

In actuality, it’s where the seeds were planted for the characters that continue to stick around. Give the film credit for actually being fairly character-driven, despite the action-heavy scenes...

| May 2, 2023

Between its charming, impossibly attractive cast, stunning practical stunts, and unapologetic commitment to melodramatic cop-show froth, The Fast and the Furious holds up better than you might expect.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 4, 2021

A film that should serve to define "guilty pleasure" for at least the rest of the summer.

| Jun 22, 2021

It's about the small things that made the franchise's first and smallest movie so enjoyable, and so mesmerizing...

| Jun 22, 2021

This 4K HD 25th Anniversary blu-ray steel box re-issue is more about the packaging than anything of an overblown, not-very-interesting movie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 29, 2021

Anything resembling dialogue or storytelling is actually just a mini-trampoline that allows TFAF to jump to higher levels of stupendous stuntery as the minutes and scenery flash by.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 30, 2020

Exudes testosterone, American brawn... amazing car chases and races; it's a gear head's wet dream.

| May 24, 2018

A spectacular start to one of Hollywood's most surprising and popular franchises ever.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Mar 27, 2015

This is a bad, bad movie. Skip it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 28, 2010

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 8, 2009

Sure it's a guilty pleasure watching stunt drivers put flashy state-of-the-art streetcars through impossibly daring maneuvers, but it's a happy indulgence nonetheless.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 17, 2009

... when characters are not racing at breakneck speed, the movie as a whole ceases to move.

| May 12, 2009

May be a cheesy movie, but it's a fun cheesy movie.

| Apr 29, 2009