Fast & Furious 5 is an American crime thriller directed by Justin Lin. It is the first film in the Fast & Furious series to be released in IMAX. The slogan of the film: “Everything is decided by speed, everything is decided by the team.” Chronologically, Fast & Furious 5 is a direct sequel to Fast & Furious (2001), 2 Fast & Furious (2003), Fast & Furious 4 (2009), and also a precursor to Fast & Furious 6 (2013), Triple Fast & Furious (2006). ) , Fast and Furious 7 (2015), Fast and Furious 8 (2017) and Fast and Furious 9 (2021).
The film received mostly positive to mixed reviews from professional reviewers. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 67 out of 100 based on 29 reviewers. Fast & Furious 5 holds a 77% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 191 reviews. Praise was given mainly to the spectacle and dynamism of some scenes and the acting; reviewers expressed a negative opinion about the plot of the film, in their opinion, not believable enough
At the premiere of the film, representatives of the company Universal Pictures said that the film studio is already developing the film “Furious 6”. The director of the last three parts, Justin Lin, confirmed that the film will definitely be, since the 5th “Fast and the Furious” turned out to be very successful and collected good box office budget $ 125 million, box office in the Worldwide $ 626,137,675.
Justin Lin became the director of the film, as well as the previous three in the series, and most of the actors from the fifth film returned to their roles. Eva Mendes, who played Monica Fuentes in the second film of the franchise and appeared after the credits of the fifth, was supposed to return to her role in Fast and Furious 6, but this did not happen.
The film had its world premiere on May 7, 2013 in London. In Russia, the film was released on May 23 of the same year.
