The Fast & Furious franchise, known for its action-packed films and enduring popularity, has experienced a surprising drop in box office revenue with its latest installment, Fast X.
Few movie franchises have the staying power of the Fast & Furious movies. With a whopping ten films in just twenty-two years, the series has been through it all, from box office highs, to the ultimate low of Paul Walker's untimely death in 2013. Perhaps surprisingly, even after Walker died, the franchise continued on successfully, though it lost its family identity in the name of bigger and more over-the-top stunts.
Each film tried to outdo itself, but audiences kept forking over their money for it. That all ended with Fast X in 2023, which was a box office dud. Now, for the final movie, Vin Diesel wants to switch things up and go back to what the first movie was like. That's a good idea, but sorry Vin, it's much too late. 'Fast X' Was a Surprising Box Office Misfire Close Usually, movie franchises begin to falter commercially as more entries come in, with quality suffering and fans beginning to fall away and turn to something new. Somehow, the Fast & Furious franchise didn't suffer from this. Even when Paul Walker died in a car accident in late 2013, the movies were still able to go on without one of its two leading men. This was not only because the Fast & Furious movies had an ensemble cast, but also because of the type of movies they were. Later sequels increasingly became about over-the-top fun. Some of the baffling stunts we saw (they even went to space!) weren't realistic, but the movies were the perfect high-octane popcorn fun that we all need from time to time. The franchise's box office drawing power peaked in 2015 with Furious 7, which made $353 million. F9 in 2021 might have only made $173 million domestically, but we were just returning to theaters after the pandemic, so that lower figure makes sense. What didn't make sense was that Fast X, which came out in 2023, the year of Barbie and Oppenheimer, made only $146 million. It was now clear: the franchise had finally gotten too out of hand to keep supportin
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