Abstract
- The Rapid and Livid franchise has produced 10 motion pictures, keeping up its core plot of unlawful avenue racing whilst introducing new parts like saving the arena or even going to house.
- Looking at the films within the order they happen within the timeline is helping audience observe the plots extra simply, because the franchise makes use of flashbacks and spin-offs that may confuse audience when gazing them in liberate order.
- Each and every film within the franchise builds at the characters and storylines, with the primary solid contributors evolving from lawbreakers to running with the regulation to catch high-profile criminals in alternate for pardons and blank slates.
The Rapid and Livid motion pictures, owned and allotted through Common Footage, are arguably essentially the most iconic racing movie sequence and one of the vital iconic film sequence ever produced. The mother or father franchise, which additionally bears the similar title, has produced no less than 10 such motion pictures, with the primary launched in 2001. The Rapid and Livid franchise has controlled to cook dinner up one thing new with every next liberate whilst keeping up the franchise’s core plot of unlawful avenue racing. Audience have noticed the working plots within the movies vary from having the primary solid contributors dedicate crimes to saving the arena from terrorists whilst working from the regulation themselves to even going to house!
Then again, settling on the most productive order to observe the Rapid and Livid motion pictures has been an age-long trouble for audience. Opting for to observe them consistent with the order of liberate, whilst it may well be handy, finally ends up leaving the viewer at a loss for words someplace within the heart because of the franchise’s use of flashbacks and spin-offs. However there’s a timeline around the franchise’s 10 motion pictures, and seeing the films within the order by which they happen within the timeline simplest makes it simple for audience to observe the plots.
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The Rapid and the Livid (2001)
Director |
Rob Cohen |
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Solid |
Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez, Paul Walker, Vin Diesel |
Runtime |
106 mins |
Unlock Date |
June twenty second, 2001 |
Rotten Tomatoes Ranking |
54% |
The Rapid and the Livid offers first perception into an international of unlawful avenue racing and different secondary subject matters via avenue racing gang chief Dominic Toretto and his gang, with LAPD officer Brian O’Conner at the different facet as he’s first assigned to research a spate of freeway robberies within the Los Angeles discipline and shortly unearths himself embroiled on the planet of unlawful avenue racing and high-speed heists, defying accountability for friendship and struggling penalties for switching loyalties. This can be a befitting opening for the ruckus that the franchise is ready to cook dinner up in its next motion pictures and offers some degree of first touch between the viewer and the primary solid, who’re gearing as much as be fashionable fan favorites.
2 Rapid 2 Livid (2003)
Director |
John Singleton |
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Solid |
Cole Hauser, Eva Mendes, Paul Walker, Tyrese Gibson |
Runtime |
104 mins |
Unlock Date |
June sixth, 2003 |
Rotten Tomatoes Ranking |
37% |
A continuation of The Rapid and the Livid following Brian’s adventure to reorient himself after his obvious excommunication from the LAPD. He’s at the flawed facet of the regulation now and has to tackle but every other investigative project, this time along Tyrese Gibson’s Roman Pearce, to lend a hand within the arrest of a Miami drug kingpin as a deal to earn the duo a wiped file with the regulation.
Even though they nearly have their duvet blown when they have got to fulfill their handler with out prior caution, they reach gaining the drug king’s consider, which sarcastically comes with critical disadvantages. Now they have got to make sure the achievement in their project sooner than it will get deadly. 2 Rapid 2 Livid sees Brian make the overall 180 from a regulation enforcement agent at the straight-and-narrow to a personality who now embraces the high-octane thrill of dwelling lifestyles one mile at a time, doing neatly to construct on his persona following his assembly Toretto.
Los Bandoleros (2009)
Director |
Vin Diesel |
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Solid |
Don Omar, Michelle Rodriguez, Sung Kang, Tego Caldern, Vin Diesel |
Runtime |
20 mins |
Unlock Date |
July twenty eighth, 2009 |
Rotten Tomatoes Ranking |
54% |
The Rapid and Livid timeline splits after The Rapid and the Livid, with Toretto and Brian going their separate techniques. 2 Rapid 2 Livid and Los Bandoleros report what they each were as much as of their respective lives following the cut up sooner than they’re introduced again in combination in Rapid and Livid. Even though Los Bandoleros used to be launched in 2009, its occasions precede Tokyo Go with the flow’s, and making an allowance for the timeline of occasions within the Rapid and Livid franchise, this brief movie particularly units up the occasions of Rapid and Livid (or Rapid and Livid 4). Whilst the movie keeps the franchise’s go-to plot of high-speed heists, it additionally portrays Toretto and his group as Robin Hood-like heroes as they make a selection to provide away their loot – hijacked gasoline from tankers – to a group. The movie additionally introduces Han Lue, round whom the plot of Tokyo Go with the flow is constructed.
Rapid & Livid (2009)
Director |
Justin Lin |
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Solid |
Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez, Paul Walker, Vin Diesel |
Runtime |
107 mins |
Unlock Date |
March twelfth, 2009 |
Rotten Tomatoes Ranking |
28% |
That is the fourth Rapid and Livid film to be launched, except Los Bandoleros, and it’s the place the confusion begins to set in for audience who make a selection to observe the films consistent with the order by which they had been launched. In Rapid and Livid: Tokyo Go with the flow, which is the 3rd film to be launched, Han turns out to die in an explosion after his automobile is broadsided through Deckard Shaw. So there are raised eyebrows and questions when he seems within the subsequent liberate. Then again, gazing the films on this order explains this, as Tokyo Go with the flow comes after the group’s altercation with Owen Shaw in Rapid and Livid 6.
Even though this isn’t the rapid subsequent liberate after 2 Rapid 2 Livid, this can be a continuation of Los Bandoleros, following Toretto’s go back from the Dominican Republic to embark on an investigative adventure of his personal upon finding out of the obvious dying of his female friend, Michelle Rodriguez’s Letty Ortiz, in Los Angeles. His seek for solutions leads him to the doorsteps of drug-fueled crime and reunites him with Brian, who turns into an FBI agent someday after 2 Rapid 2 Livid and could also be on a challenge to trace down the narcotic boss on the helm of all of it, Arturo Braga. In combination, Toretto and Brian infiltrate the drug king’s trade, and Brian tries to barter a pardon for Toretto in alternate for Braga, an unsuccessful ploy that reasons Brian to be taken off energetic accountability and permits Braga to flee.
Then again, this simply offers Brian extra space to perform within the grey spaces between regulation and crime, and he quickly pursues the fleeing Braga to Mexico along Toretto, with the auto chase ensuing within the dying of Fenix, who had unwittingly published himself to Toretto as Letty’s killer. Along with his task executed and revenge taken, Toretto surrenders to regulation enforcement. Brian turns out to include the way of life as they realize it when he resigns from the FBI and joins the remainder of the group to intercept the jail bus transporting Toretto.
Rapid 5 (2011)
Director |
Justin Lin |
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Solid |
Dwayne Johnson, Jordana Brewster, Paul Walker, Tyrene Gibson, Vin Diesel |
Runtime |
2h 10m |
Unlock Date |
April twenty ninth, 2011 |
Rotten Tomatoes Ranking |
78% |
That is the 5th film to observe, following the franchise’s match timeline and film liberate dates. It alternatives up proper after Brian and Mia unfastened Toretto from the jail shipping, and the trio flees to Rio de Janeiro. Rapid 5 is pivotal to the franchise’s dynamics in that it’s the first Rapid and Livid film to tone down the franchise’s canon of avenue racing. As an alternative, the plot facilities round a sequence of heists, which places the primary solid proper between arranged crime and the regulation.
It’s most likely additionally the franchise’s first challenge into the absurd, because the film come what may manages to make use of two police automobiles to tear a proof vault blank out of a police station—completely dismissing that concrete, bricks, and rebars had been used to construct where. Apparently, the group unearths themselves at the facet of the regulation over again (or is it the regulation that unearths itself on their facet?) when DSS agent Hobbs performed through Dwayne Johnson, and Officer Neves sign up for forces with them to drag one ultimate large heist on Hernan Reyes, the prison kingpin whose males had been chargeable for the deaths of Hobbs’ and Neves’ teammates.
Rapid and Livid 6 (2013)
Director |
Justin Lin |
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Solid |
Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Paul Walker, Vin Diesel |
Runtime |
130 mins |
Unlock Date |
March twenty fourth, 2013 |
Rotten Tomatoes Ranking |
71% |
Regardless that they’ll all appear complicated and disjointed, with every taking a look like they are able to be standalone motion pictures, the Rapid and Livid motion pictures have controlled to stay to a core storyline, tracing the transformation of the Toretto group (or ‘circle of relatives’) from sought after lawbreakers to gray-area walkers who use unorthodox method to lend a hand the regulation in nabbing higher-profile criminals, generally in alternate for a blank slate with the regulation for contributors of the group.
The plot in Rapid and Livid 6 reinforces this, spotlighting the group contributors in numerous portions of the arena taking part in the aftermath of Rio de Janeiro. Hobbs brings them out in their transient recess and, in alternate for his or her complete pardons, enlists their assist to prevent a gang of mercenaries seeking to construct and promote unhealthy tech. Rapid and Livid 6 could also be most likely the primary time the group has to finish a challenge with any individual they imagine to be certainly one of theirs enjoying for the opposite facet, a twist that does extra to steer their choice to take at the task than the attraction of pardon.
The Rapid and the Livid: Tokyo Go with the flow (2006)
Director |
Justin Lin |
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Solid |
Brian Tee, Lucas Black, Shad “Bow Wow” Moss, Zachery Ty Bryan |
Runtime |
104 mins |
Unlock Date |
June sixteenth, 2006 |
Rotten Tomatoes Ranking |
37% |
The film follows Han in Japan after the Rapid and Livid 6 occasions. There, he coaches a tender excessive schooler in go with the flow racing and unearths himself concerned about his protégé’s red meat with a yakuza boss’ nephew over a lady. He additionally unearths out that he wronged the boss himself. He has to flee his sticky state of affairs by myself this time, with the loss of coverage from the Toretto group evidenced when he’s apparently killed in a automobile explosion through Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw, brother to Owen Shaw, whom Hobbs completed in Rapid and Livid 6.
Livid 7 (2015)
Director |
James Wan |
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Solid |
Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Paul Walker, Vin Diesel |
Runtime |
140 mins |
Unlock Date |
April 3, 2015 |
Rotten Tomatoes Ranking |
81% |
After it appears killing Han in Tokyo, Deckard Shaw strikes to actual his revenge on the remainder of the crew, which now more or less contains Hobbs. Then again, the crew unearths themselves in cahoots with but every other executive agent who pledges to assist them prevent Deckard in the event that they assist him retrieve a deadly pc program.
The traces between revenge and undeniable mercenary motion blur when Deckard aligns himself with a mercenary within the pc program because the duo notice they have got a not unusual enemy. The Toretto group is pressured to offer protection to themselves on two fronts, with the franchise applaudably exploiting the gravity of the risk they now face as a foundation for the retirement of Paul Walker’s persona following his tragic passing.
The Destiny of the Livid (2017)
Director |
F Gary Grey |
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Solid |
Charlize Theron, Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Vin Diesel |
Runtime |
136 mins |
Unlock Date |
April 12, 2017 |
Rotten Tomatoes Ranking |
67% |
The Destiny of the Livid re-employs the friend-turned-adversary and mission-for-pardon plots on this film, with the themes being Toretto himself and Hobbs, respectively. This time, Toretto’s explanation why for switching aspects is blackmail, now not amnesia, because it have been for Letty, and Hobbs has to head on a challenge to have his data cleared for running outdoor the regulation.
The franchise additionally totally embraces its theme of absurdity on this film, ramping up Toretto’s riding talents to the level that he can shake off 5 harpoons hooked up to high-powered automobiles very similar to his. Additionally, in a shocking twist, the Toretto group unearths Deckard on their facet after he and Hobbs escape of jail and are employed through Mr. No person to assist Toretto. The Rapid and Livid film cements Hobbs’s place as a part of the crew and most likely Brian’s alternative.
Rapid & Livid Items: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
Director |
David Leitch |
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Solid |
Dwayne Johnson, Idris Elba, Jason Statham, Vanessa Kirby |
Runtime |
136 mins |
Unlock Date |
August 2, 2019 |
Rotten Tomatoes Ranking |
67% |
Input the franchise’s first by-product film, which follows Hobbs and Shaw on an aspect quest to save lots of the arena from literal annihilation. They move up in opposition to a 15 May Organization and particularly its hitman, a cybernetically augmented ex-colleague of Shaw’s, who’re threatening to unharness a organic weapon at the international. The film additionally reinforces the franchise’s secondary theme of circle of relatives first, because it manages to squeeze in an uneasy circle of relatives reunion for Hobbs. Another time, that is all eclipsed through the movie’s blatant defiance of physics, which permits Hobbs to carry a helicopter in midair with simply his arms!
F9 The Rapid Saga (2021)
Director |
Justin Lin |
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Solid |
Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Vin Diesel |
Runtime |
143 mins |
Unlock Date |
June 25, 2021 |
Rotten Tomatoes Ranking |
59% |
This one flashes again to Toretto’s origins, revealing the explanations that set him on his present lifestyles trail. He’s pressured to get to the bottom of circle of relatives variations as he now faces his long-exiled brother, Jakob performed through John Cena in a struggle to achieve ownership of but every other piece of tough era. The film additionally resurrects Han from his obvious dying and implies how he has helped the group from the shadows throughout the time he used to be presumed lifeless. Additionally, due to every other piece of physics-defying writing, Tej and Roman arrange to pressure a automobile into house.
Rapid X (2023)
Director |
Louis Leterrier |
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Solid |
Ludacris, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Vin Diesel |
Runtime |
141 mins |
Unlock Date |
Would possibly 19, 2023 |
Rotten Tomatoes Ranking |
56% |
In truth, how the franchise manages to pack all it does into this one film is past comprehension. First, the primary plot topic on this iconically named liberate is revenge, as Dante Reyes’ diabolical plan to avenge his father, whom the group executes in Rapid 5, is in any case executed. The film portrays Dante as their maximum traumatizing adversary but, as he doesn’t appear to have any morals by any means and is fast to make use of the dirtiest method to be had to succeed in his objectives. He’s particularly adept at framing folks for terrorist acts he commits and turns out to have his tentacles in all places, which places him steps forward of Toretto and the group at each and every flip.
The Rapid And The Livid
The action-packed Rapid & Livid franchise follows a ragtag workforce of drivers as they use their talents at the back of the wheel to battle in opposition to global threats. Ranging from humble street-racing beginnings, the films have change into larger and extra thrilling over the process twenty years, even spawning a derivative film for 2 fan-favorite characters.
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Paul Walker
, Vin Diesel
, Michelle Rodriguez
, Ludacris
, Tyrese Gibson
, Dwayne Johnson
, Jason Statham
, John Cena
, Jason Momoa
, Charlize Theron
, Gal Gadot - Spin-offs (Motion pictures)
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