Fast & Furious, OMG !! It is on higher level now. Making its stakes higher. Happiness is, there is still a car movie franchise in the market. But things are getting different in every movie of this franchise. Getting interesting day by day. Why this franchise is still very popular and successful? We will talk about it in this article and will find the reasons behind its success. Will discuss it point by point. So here we go..
HIGH-OCTANE ACTION
The first point is its High-Octane Action. This franchise has straight forward actions on a very huge level which gives us a whole new adrenaline level. Planes, trains, even they blasted the tank, stoled submarine and the actions OMG, Avengers would feel shame while watching that type of actions. Skydiving with the cars, parkour with the bus, robbing bank in a populated city, blasting tanks, jumping with cars from three consecutive buildings.... OMG...
Seems like a 5 years old making his dreams come true when he used to play with cars. Despite this, their actions are so powerful. We can feel the pain of every character doing that stunt.
SUPERHEROS IN DISGUISE
The second point is that they are superheros in disguise. From Fast & Furious 5 this franchise is turning from car movies into superhero movies. From every movie their premise and stakes are getting higher and higher. Franchise got some extraordinary achievements, from box office to the global human issues. Every story's main core theme is HOME. And this franchise know it better.
This franchise has heros, villains and anti-heros too which could come together for a greater cause. And their superhuman capabilities. Not a single scratch on the body after doing the dangerous stunts.
Characters do the most impossible tasks in a style. This franchise is scratching the meta-human aura. Such a action sequences that a normal human can't do. Characters pushing their melo-dramatic thoughts and strength.
Tell me one thing they can't do? I am damn sure, if they have to take down THANOS, they would, easily.
RESPECT AND EMBRACE THEIR DIVERSITY
One thing I like the most about this franchise is that they respect and embrace their diversity. Who is not in this franchise? Koreans, south americans, african americans, mexicans, indian and israely actors are there. Not only this but the directors to direct this franchise are malaysian and taiwanese american.
Universal Studios and their producers trust their casting so much. Having this huge diversity movie never make a joke about goofy premise. Never used rational agnicity for humor. Even they created love in that diversity.
HUGE WELL LIKED CASTING
The fourth point of why this franchise is successful is that they have huge well liked casting including the Vin Diesel, Dwyane Johnson, John Cena, Jason Statham, Sung Kang, Amber Sienna etc.
These are the huge names for the movie. John Cena is much famous for his wrestling. Started acting in recent years. Dwayne johnson too was a famous wrestler with his rink name The Rock. He is former football player with 15,261,791 followers on twitter.
Vin Diesel and Jason Statham are well known actors. People love to watch them irrespective of what the movie is about. There are huge numbers of fans including me.
THEY ARE CONSTANTLY EVOLVING
The fifth point is that they are constantly evolving. This franchise is the best example on the name of "Move-On". Its first movie was a sudo reboot of "Point Break", but its fifth movie was a heist movie after evolving, eighth movie became a techno-thriller and if we add "Hobbs & Shaw" it was a meta superhuman movie. By the time while trend changed its story also changed somewhere. And that's not a bad thing. Characters should grow properly as in our real life too no one would be the same as 11 years before.
From underground car racing to neo noir look it evolved so much fulfilling expectations of its potential audience.
THE NUMBERS ARE GOOD
Every franchise in the world needs numbers to be alive. After the MCU, this franchise knows very well what to give or what people want. This franchise never disappoint. Although its critical reception is average but its box office performance is very good with out any reason.
Its a money making machine for Universal Studios. Latest Fast & Furious 9's trailer got 500M views across social platforms. And when the numbers are this good, recipe is good, cook is good then food will be good too.
Tell me why you like this franchise? Personally I like watching it with my friends. I love its actions sequences.