The most over-the-top and meme worthy FAMILY of Hollywood is back with its 10th main installment and the 11th overall one. The Fast and the Furious franchise is one of the most successful franchises in cinematic history as it has grossed over $6.6 billion worldwide. What started out as a niche racing car franchise has now turned into one of the biggest Hollywood cash grabs. Anyways, Fast X is the beginning of the end of the main saga and serves as first of the final parts of the finale which might have a total of 3 parts as per Vin Diesel. Anyways, the film is packed with loads of action, returning and resurrected characters so read on only if you don’t mind SPOILERS as the article contains the entire plot summary of the film!
Fast X Full Plot Summary and Recap
In 2011, Dante Reyes attempts to stop Dominic Toretto and Brian O’Conner from stealing the vault containing the fortune of his father and drug lord, Hernán Reyes. However, Dom uses the vault to ram Dante’s turreted SUV into the Ocean, but Dante survives and swears revenge against Dom. After stopping the upload of Project Ares, Dom continues raising his son Brian with his wife Letty Ortiz. Later, they are visited by Roman Pearce, Tej Parker, Ramsey, Han Lue and Dom’s grandmother Abuelita Toretto for a family reunion. After the reunion, the team is assigned for a new mission in Rome, where Dom and Letty decide to stay behind.
That night, cyberterrorist Cipher arrives at Dom’s house after being betrayed by her team that joined forces with Dante, as the latter blackmailed them with threats to kill their families. She warns him that Dante is after his family and they are in danger. The next day, Little Nobody arrives to take Cipher into custody and confirms to Dom and Letty that Cipher told them the truth, but he also tells them that he never assigned a mission to the team. Realizing that they were sent to Dante’s trap and unable to communicate with them, Dom and Letty travel to Rome to rescue the team. In Rome, the team is imprisoned in a truck controlled by Dante, containing a time bomb set to explode.
Dom and Letty arrive in order to aid the team by managing to stop the truck, but the bomb is released through the streets causing mayhem across the way where Little Nobody is almost killed by a bomb that Dante implanted to his car. Having no time to deactivate the bomb, Dom takes it to the river in order to prevent it from reaching the Vatican. Though he manages to do it, the bomb explodes and great part of the city is destroyed due to it’s power. Dom and his crew are blamed for the destruction and become international fugitives, with Letty being arrested while the rest of the team manages to escape. Mr. Nobody agency’s new leader Aimes, believes that Dom’s crew is responsible for the terrorist attack and starts a manhunt to capture them.
Meanwhile in Los Angeles, a special forces team arrives to take Brian, who was under the care of Dom’s sister Mia O’Connor. Soon they are joined by Dom’s brother Jakob, having been contacted by Dom, and overpowers the squad. He parts ways with Mia, taking Brian with him to protect him. Mr Nobody’s daughter Tess who is convinced of Dom’s innocence, use God’s Eye in order to find him in a bar. She tells him that Dante is the son of Hernan Reyes and warns him that Aimes is going after them. Dom travels to Rio de Janeiro to confront Dante, while Tess goes to the prison where Letty was being held to deliberately wound her and sent her to have her wound treated, under Dom’s request.
All this aside, there is a big action sequence where Gisele Yashar (Gal Gadot) comes back from the dead in a submarine and saves everyone at the end of the film. The post credit scene for Fast X showcase a shadowy figure with a mask on, revealing himself to be none other than Dwayne Johnson’s Luke Hobbs! As it happens he is on a call with Jason Mamoa’s Dante Reyes who is saying that Hobbs shot his father and he seeks revenge. Upon hearing this Luke Hobbs delivers a cool line – “Well, I am not that hard to find ###”
Fast X is now out in theatres worldwide, so enjoy!
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