Fast Five

"Get the fifth gear."

2011 2h 11m EN

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7.2

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77%

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7.3

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★7.2TMDB · 9,128🍅77%Rotten Tomatoes●66Metacritic★7.3IMDB · 439,269

ActionThrillerCrime

Synopsis

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Former cop Brian O'Conner partners with ex-con Dom Toretto on the opposite side of the law. Since Brian and Mia Toretto broke Dom out of custody, they've blown across many borders to elude authorities. Now backed into a corner in Rio de Janeiro, they must pull one last job in order to gain their freedom.

“Get the fifth gear.”

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Cast

Vin Diesel
Dominic Toretto
Paul Walker
Brian O'Conner
Jordana Brewster
Mia Toretto
Tyrese Gibson
Roman Pearce
Ludacris
Tej Parker
Matt Schulze
Vince
Sung Kang
Han Lue
Gal Gadot
Gisele Yashar

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Justin Lin
Writers: Chris Morgan, Anthony Liberatore
Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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$125M budget — tentpole studio territory.

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MONEY

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Made its money back 5.0× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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Released 15 years ago.

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4 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 4 languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian.

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5 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "The Fast and the Furious Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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6 / 8

CAST

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224+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Justin Lin, shot by Stephen F. Windon. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Brian Tyler. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Justin Lin directs. Stephen F. Windon behind the camera. Brian Tyler scores. Kelly Matsumoto cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian.

Trivia

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1$125M budget — tentpole studio territory.
2Made its money back 5.0× over at the box office.
3Released 15 years ago.
4Dialogue crosses 4 languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian.
5Part of the "The Fast and the Furious Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
6224+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
7Directed by Justin Lin, shot by Stephen F. Windon. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
8Original score by Brian Tyler. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
9Editor Kelly Matsumoto shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
10Vin Diesel and Paul Walker and Jordana Brewster carry the top of the cast.
11Marketing tagline: "Get the fifth gear.".
12IMDB entry: tt1596343 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
13Classified under 20 themes, including "car race", "freedom", "fbi", "sequel".
14Released under 38 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Stephen F. Windon
Original score: Brian Tyler
Editing: Kelly Matsumoto
Production design: Peter Wenham
Costume design: Sanja Milkovic Hays
Makeup / hair: Joani Yarbrough
VFX supervisor: David Wallace Allen
Sound: Glynna Grimala
Stunt coordinator: Agnaldo Bueno
Runtime: 131 min · 2h 11m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $125,000,000
Box office: $626,100,000
Return: 501% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Fast Five (2011)
Rotten Tomatoes: 77% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 66/100
IMDB rating: 7.3/10 · 439,269 votes
MPAA: PG-13

Awards

9 wins & 21 nominations total

Part of

The Fast and the Furious Collection

An action film series centered on illegal street racing and heists.

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Justin Lin

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ohlalipop2017-02-09
I'm not really a fan of these kinds of movies. I haven't even seen parts 1 and 2. I've seen part 3 (Tokyo Drift) which I think was a waste of time. I've seen part 4 just because everyone's watching it and surprisingly I liked it. I was even surprised to find out that Bryan O'Conner (Paul Walker) was a policeman. Haha! So here I am, watching the fifth installment. Justine wanted to watch it badly and since I have nothing to do, I decided to accompany her. She was on leave the whole week and she just got back from Palawan. So before watching the movie, the 2 of us had dinner at Jack's Loft. I told her that we should buy tickets first but because we were lazy we forgot about it. When it was an hour before the movie, we were surprised. Sold out. Well, nearly sold out. There were like less than 10 seats. So we still went in line and luckily got seats even if the seats were bad and we were seated separately from each other. I liked this movie. Although it was very unrealistic. (Hello? Where's the government of Rio?) I like how The Rock was there. I like him. I don't like Vin Diesl. I don't understand a word coming out of his mouth. Jordana was still pretty but she's not as pretty in this film. She's too thin. But all in all I liked it.
The Movie Mob2022-09-17
★ 8/10
Fast Five brings the action, beloved old characters, exciting new ones, and a whole lot of fun to the Fast franchise and the heist genre. Fast 4 and Fast 5 are the best of the Fast & Furious franchise. Fast 4 redeemed the series after the failure of Tokyo Drift by bringing back Vin Diesel and the cast and family of the first film. Then Fast 5 expands and adds to the crew with fan-favorite characters from across the series, including Han (Kang), Roman (Gibson), Tej (Ludacris), Gisele (Gadot), and more. The Toretto family plans a massive heist to buy their freedom but hot on their tale is Dwayne Johnson’s Hobbs, a perfect foil to Diesel’s Toretto. The face-off between these characters is epic! Fast Five’s bonkers action is a little more grounded than later entries, but it’s still outrageous fun. It feels kind of like The Italian Job, directed by Michael Bay. Fast Five launched the Fast Franchise into another decade of insane stunts and stories with great characters and commitment to embracing its cheesy awesomeness.
CinemaSerf2023-05-15
★ 7/10
Picking up hot on the heels of the last film, the newly escaped "Dom" (Vin Diesel), his ex-FBI pal "O'Conner" (Paul Walker) and "Mia" (Jordan Brewster) have to keep skipping one step ahead of the pursuing law led by "Hobbs" (Dwayne Johnson) and, whilst cornered in Rio, they must assemble everyone with driving skills so as to thwart the ambitions of drug lord "Reyes" (Joaquim de Almeida) whom they have seriously hacked off. This effort sacrifices a little of the pace and speed of the other films and tries to focus on a slightly stronger story with some better characterisations - that does mean that it can be a bit on the slow side at times and maybe we get just one thoughtful pose from Diesel too many, but as we head towards a fairly predictable denouement this easily (for my money, anyway) tops the list of F&F films before clearly teeing us up for number 6. I think it's closer in quality and standard to the first film - and still has plenty of burnt rubber and lively stunts to keep it watchable.