What Is The Highest-Grossing Fast & Furious’ Movie in Singapore?

The Fast & Furious franchise has been around since 2001, and over the years, the fuel-guzzling motorhead movies — all eight of them — have earned over US$5.132 billion (S$7 bil, unadjusted for inflation) worldwide. A ninth F&F is currently in production for next May, followed by the 10th and final instalment in 2021, just in time for the first movie’s 20th anniversary. To mark the opening of Hobbs & Shaw, the spin-off starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham, this Thursday (Aug 1), we rank the box-office grosses of all eight F&F movies in Singapore, from the lowest to highest. The bigger the movie, the more money it made, right? Not really.

Box-office figures: UIP; *earnings in 2018 after adjustments for inflation

Photos: UIP

The Fast and the Furious (2001)

Box-office: $692,820 ($916,243*)/Rotten Tomatoes: 53%

The US$5 billion carmageddon franchise had humble beginnings in this carsploitation version of Point Break, inspired by a Vibe mag article. Paul Walker stars as undercover cop Brian O’Conner hot on the trail of Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto, the truckjacker suspect/street racer Zen master who lives his life a quarter mile at a time. (Oi, stop snickering in the back!)

Box-office: $988,000 ($1.3 mil*)/Rotten Tomatoes: 36%

Directed by the late John Singleton, the serviceable Diesel-free — sorry, can’t help it — sequel sees O’Conner (Walker), going undercover for the Feds this time, teaming up with Tyrese Gibson and Eva Mendes to bust a Miami drug lord (Cole Hauser). The glorified Miami Vice picked up two Razzie nominations, Worst Remake or Sequel, and Worst Excuse for an Actual Movie.

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)

Box-office: $1.29 mil ($1.65 mil*)/Rotten Tomatoes: 38%

The Justin Lin-helmed third chapter moves the series to the Land of the Rising Sun and ditches its 21 Jump Street subplot. Lucas Black plays an army brat who finds his calling in the street racing circuit under the tutelage of Sang Kung’s drift guru Han. An enjoyable standalone until Diesel’s surprise cameo in the end changes the narrative roadmap…

Fast & Furious aka Fast & Furious 4 (2009)

Box-office: $2.29 mil ($2.68 mil*)/Rotten Tomatoes: 29%

Drop the determiner and replace the ampersand with a conjunction in the title, and —voila! — a reboot is born! Original players Diesel, Walker and Michelle Rodriguez return for the fourquel, again directed by Lin. The plot concerns O’Connor teaming up with Toretto to take down a Mexican drug lord who’s murdered Letty (Rodriguez)… who turns out to be not dead.

Fast & Furious 5 aka Fast Five (2011)

Box-office: $4.23 mil ($4.57 mil)/Rotten Tomatoes: 77%

‘Franchise Viagra’ Dwayne Johnson joins the fray as Diplomatic Security Service agent Luke Hobbs. He’s what the running-on-fumes series needed — a booster shot to steer it away from its street-racing roots into Ocean’s 11 territory (but with less white people). Johnson stole the show as the new MVP: he would appear in two more sequels and spin-off Hobbs & Shaw.

Fast & Furious 6 aka Furious 6 (2013)

Box-office: $5.93 mil ($5.99 mil)/Rotten Tomatoes: 70%

The Mission: Impossible of the F&F movies is known for three things: Luke Evans as the baddie; Letty back from the dead (by popular demand); and an end-credits sequence that reveals Jason Statham as the next villain (the bastard killed Han!), and an even bigger shock no one saw coming: F&F 4, 5 and 6 are prequels to Tokyo Drift!

Fast & Furious 8 aka Fate of the Furious (2017)

Box-office: $7.72 mil ($7.75 mil)/Rotten Tomatoes: 81%

Is the F&F movie still fun after Walker’s tragic passing? We aren’t too sure, man. With Connor ‘retired’, it’s up to Toretto and Hobbs to take care of the pesky business with Charlize Theron’s cyberterrorist and Metallica fan Cipher. Making Statham the good guy is a bad mistake, though. Haven’t we forgotten about the people (including Han) he’d killed? #JusticeForHan.

Fast & Furious 7 aka Furious 7 (2015)

Box-office: $9.22 mil ($9.26 mil)/Rotten Tomatoes: 67%

This is it! The Avengers: Endgame of the F&F movies (aka Walker’s final F&F movie) — directed by The Conjuring mastermind James Wan — concerns the recovery of some super-surveillance device called God’s Eye and involves a larger ensemble (hello, Kurt Russell, Djimon Hounsou, Tony Jaa, and Ronda Rousey) and crazier, physics-ignoring, CG-aided stunts (driving a Lykan HyperSport from one skyscraper into another!).