Rankings Philosophy

To come up with the most accurate rankings, the author targeted 3 specific scenes in each Fast and Furious film and ranked them in 3 areas: Fast, Furious, and Family. The final score for the film is the average of the specified scenes, rounded up. These rankings are detailed below:

The Fast and the Furious

Scene	Description	Fast	Furious	Family
Tuna Sandwich Conflict	Brian orders a tuna sandwich one too many times at Mia’s cafe. Vince and Brian fight before Dom breaks it up.	2	8	7
Race Wars	Jesse races Tran at Race Wars but flees when he loses.	6	5	5
Brian and Dom Final Race	Brian and Dom chase down Tran’s crew and eventually make their way to a stoplight at which they begin a final quarter mile race.	8	5	6
Average Scores		6	6	6

2 Fast 2 Furious

Scene	Description	Fast	Furious	Family
Tryout race	Brian and Roman prove their worth to Verone by being the first one to retrieve a package from his impounded vehicle.	7	6	4
Car chase to scramble	Brian and Roman transport Verone’s money but get surrounded by police at a warehouse. Tej unleashes a car scramble allowing the pair to switch cars and escape the police.	7	5	6
Boat chase	Brian and Roman chase down Verone’s boat and catch up to it by launching off a dock and landing on the boat.	8	8	5
Average Scores		8	7	5

Fast & Furious

Scene	Description	Fast	Furious	Family
Fuel heist	Dom’s crew hijacks fuel tankers in the Dominican Republic.	5	5	4
First border crossing	Braga’s crew including Dom and Brian make the first drug run through the border tunnel narrowly avoiding a patrol helicopter. Dom sets a trap at the subsequent drop-off, blows up his car, and gets away with Brian.	4	6	6
Border tunnel chase	Brian and Dom kidnap Braga and flee through the collapsing border tunnel. They barely make it through, crash on the US side, and arrest Braga.	6	6	4
Average Scores		5	6	5

Fast Five

Scene	Description	Fast	Furious	Family
Train heist	Vince recruits Mia and Brian to help steal cars from inside a train. They discover the cars are being escorted by DEA agents.	4	4	4
Extradition ambush	Hobbs arrests Dom and Brian but is ambushed with RPGs while transporting them to the airport.	3	8	5
Safe heist/chase	Dom’s crew steals Reyes’ safe, drags it through town, and eventually gets away by swapping it out with a decoy safe.	7	5	4
Average Scores		5	6	5

Fast and Furious 6

Scene	Description	Fast	Furious	Family
Wedge car chase	Shaw flees from Dom and Brian in a custom wedge shaped car.	8	6	5
Highway tank	Shaw’s crew hijacks a military convoy, steal a tank, and cause havoc on a highway. Dom miraculously jumps off of a moving car to catch Letty and save her from falling off a bridge.	5	9	6
Giant Plane	Dom’s crew tracks Shaw to a gigantic airplane on a seemingly endless runway. They fight Shaw and prevent it from taking off by pulling it down and destroying it.	6	7	7
Average Scores		7	8	6

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

Scene	Description	Fast	Furious	Family
First drift race	Sean challenges Takashi to a race not understanding it is a drift race. Sean loses and wrecks the car he borrowed from Han.	2	4	3
Han crash	Sean and Han flee Takashi through the streets of downtown Tokyo. Han gets t-boned and blows up before Sean can save him.	7	8	6
Last drift race	Sean challenges Takashi to a final race down a mountain with the loser having to leave Tokyo.	6	5	6
Average Scores		5	6	5

Furious 7

Scene	Description	Fast	Furious	Family
Ramsey Rescue	Dom’s crew skydives out of a plane in cars to chase down a convoy transporting Ramsey, an infamous hacker. They rescue Ramsey but not before driving off of a mountain.	6	8	4
Skyscraper	Dom and Brian steal a billionaire’s car containing the God’s Eye chip from the penthouse of a skyscraper by jumping it between 3 different skyscrapers.	6	8	5
Brian & Dom Goodbye	Dom and Brian have a final goodbye and drive off their separate ways.	5	3	10
Average Scores		6	7	7

The Fate of the Furious

Scene	Description	Fast	Furious	Family
NYC nuclear football heist	Dom, under direction of Cipher, steals a nuclear football from the Russian Minister of Defense while visiting NYC.	6	7	7
Baby rescue	The Shaw brothers invade Cipher’s airplane and successfully rescue Dom’s baby.	6	7	9
Nuclear submarine chase	Cipher hacks into a nuclear submarine and chases Brian and crew across a frozen channel. Dom tricks Cipher into shooting a missile at her own submarine.	7	9	8
Average Scores		7	8	8

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

Scene	Description	Fast	Furious	Family
Chernobyl	Hobbs, Shaw, and Hattie steal the Snowflake extraction device from Brixton’s facility.	7	7	6
Samoan fist fight	Hobbs and crew fist fight Brixton’s army in Samoa and somehow dominate them.	5	8	8
Tow trucks helicopter chase	After the fist fight, Brixton kidnaps Hattie and the extraction device in a helicopter. Hobbs’ crew uses a series of tow trucks linked together by chains and muscle to take down the helicopter and rescue Hattie.	6	8	9
Average Scores		6	8	8

F9: The Fast Saga

Scene	Description	Fast	Furious	Family
Minefield Chase	Dom and crew are chased by a paramilitary group through an active minefield in a Central American jungle after picking up Mr. Nobody's secret device. Dom's brother, Jakob, intersects them and steals the device. Both groups escape by jumping their cars off a cliff.	8	8	7
Snake Truck Chase	Dom's crew chases Otto and Jakob's extremely long and snakelike truck while they try to stay mobile and monitor their satellite launch. Jakob is forced out of his crew mid-chase scene and joins Dom's crew, because of family, to help take down Otto	7	8	9
Space Scuba	Going faster than any member of the crew has gone before, Tej and Roman launch into space wearing scuba suits inside a car strapped to rocket engines. Once in space, they ram Otto's satellite to prevent his hacking tool from being deployed worldwide.	10	8	6
Average Scores		9	8	8

Fast X

Scene	Description	Fast	Furious	Family
Roman's Mission	No Spoilers	7	9	6
Rio Race	No Spoilers	7	7	8
Cannonball Run	No Spoilers	8	9	10
Average Scores		8	9	8