Dominic Toretto is on his way to jail, but let's face it when you and all your friends are basically superheroes, there's no way that's going to actually happen, and ten minutes and a bus crash later, the team's in Brazil, boosting cars by literally cutting out the side of a high-speed train and driving them off it.
Alas, the locals they're working with aren't trustworthy and the cars are the property of the US government, so we're one double-cross away from Dom & Co being entangled in a three-way struggle with the local mob and a seemingly unstoppable US lawman in the shape of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
The fourth Fast & Furious film restored some box office lustre to what had previously seemed to be a failing franchise, but it is this entry that confirmed a shift in financial trajectory. Fast Five was the #6 earner in the 2011 US box office, and #7 worldwide. And even nearly a decade later, it's not hard to see why: the film is bonkers, balls to the wall action pretty much from start to finish. It's the cinematic equivalent of an amusement park rollercoaster and it leans in hard to that fact, with only very occasional breaks for someone to make some gravelly-voiced comment about "mi familia".
Good, gonzo fun.
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