As far as action films go Fast & Furious 5 is a stunner. If you see it on the big screen be prepared to be blown away by a film that puts every dollar of its budget to great use.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2024

These guys make robbing a mobster into a party game for criminal buddies who revel in the adrenaline rush of speed and psych-outs between the rubber and the road.

| Aug 19, 2023

A fun, thrilling summer blockbuster that's also the franchise's best offering to date. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 10, 2023

Easily the best this series has to offer. This is not to imply this is a good movie, merely the most entertaining in a succession of inexcusable trash.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 7, 2023

This may largely be the consensus pick for best of the series, but there’s certainly a reason for that.

| May 2, 2023

Affords itself the luxury of passing two and a half hours within being boring. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 7, 2022

It’s Johnson who seems to be having the most fun with his performance. Whether he’s hamming it up with the stereotypical tough guy oneliners or throwing haymakers, Johnson is a great fit.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 20, 2022

Fast Five crystallised the series' dominant formula with its appealing ensemble cast and spectacular action - particularly that unforgettable vault haul across Rio.

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

The choice to unite every major character and give them seemingly superhuman strength not only resulted in one of the best action blockbusters of the 2010s-it saved the Fast & Furious franchise...

| May 3, 2021

In typical sequel form, an attempt to outdo the predecessor takes priority.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 30, 2020

By the way, whose idea was it to team Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson? Unfreakingbelievably inspired.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 7, 2020

This is the kind of movie where they throw two grenades, because one grenade is never enough. And that's a good thing.

| Original Score: A | Jul 12, 2020

Diesel's ode to fatherhood is an action-fest that holds against everything that has come since.

| Apr 9, 2020

When it comes to ridiculously silly, fast-paced action movies, I guess you could do worse than "Fast Five." You could also do a lot better.

| May 8, 2019

It's quick, it has an actual enjoyable heist storyline and it's good fun.

| Original Score: B | Feb 15, 2019

Do we really need a fifth movie filled with car races, car chases and car crashes? Of course not. But then, we also don't need the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren or the Autobahn. But they add an awfully lot of fun to our short, brutal lives.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2019

Check your brain at the door.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 8, 2017

From the opening, adrenalin-pumping prison bus escape to a heart-pounding car theft aboard a fast-moving train, Fast Five throws it down from the jump.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 8, 2016

Each movie has two very good action scenes, usually at either end, but then about an hour and a half of the most asinine tough-guy nonsense between them.

| Jun 21, 2016

...achieves the sort of zen chaos that defines the Die Hard films

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 31, 2015