To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the franchise, Amazon’s put the entire Fast and the Furious franchise on sale, with the original movie currently priced to own at $4.99 in HD, and every other film in the series currently priced to own at $7.99 in HD.
Note that this is a limited time sale but no end date has been announced, so be sure to grab the titles you want from this sale today.
The Fast and the Furious (PG-13, 4/5 stars, currently priced to own at $4.99 in HD)
Los Angeles street racer Dominic Toretto falls under the suspicion of the LAPD as a string of high-speed electronics truck robberies rocks the area. Brian O’Connor, an officer of the LAPD, joins the ranks of Toretto’s highly skilled racing crew undercover to convict Toretto. However, O’Connor finds himself both enamored with this new world and in love with Toretto’s sister, Mia. As a rival racing crew gains strength, O’Connor must decide where his loyalties really lie.
– Written by rball4042, IMDB
2 Fast 2 Furious (PG-13, 4/5 stars, currently priced to own at $7.99 in HD)
Brian O’Conner has left LA due to his illegal actions from the first movie and now soars the streets of Miami making money here and there by street racing. Watched by Customs Agent Monica Fuentes, Brian is caught by the police and is given a deal by Agent Markham and Bilkins to go undercover and try to bring down drug lord Carter Verone in exchange for his criminal record to be erased.
Brian agrees but only if he is given permission to choose his partner. Brian heads home to Barstow, California where he recruits an old friend Roman Pearce to help him. Pearce agrees but only for the same deal Brian was offered. With the help of Monica, Brian and Rome work together to take down Verone.
– Written by SLIMSEANY, IMDB
Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (PG-13, 4/5 stars, currently priced to own at $7.99 in HD)
Sean Boswell, an Alabama teenager with a record for street racing, moves to his father’s resident city of Tokyo, Japan to avoid a prison sentence in America.
Boswell quickly falls in love with the world of drift racing in Tokyo’s underground and a Japanese girl named Neela. However, Boswell’s presence and growing talent for drifting unsettles the Japanese Mafia, which makes thousands of dollars from the sport.
Confrontations arise, and Sean is faced with a simple decision: drift or die.
– Written by rball4042, IMDB
Fast & Furious (PG-13, 4.5/5 stars, currently priced to own at $7.99 in HD)
Heading back to the streets where it all began, two men rejoin two women to blast muscle, tuner and exotic cars across Los Angeles and floor through the Mexican desert.
When a crime brings them back to L.A., fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto reignites his feud with agent Brian O’Connor. But as they are forced to confront a shared enemy, Dom and Brian must give in to an uncertain new trust if they hope to outmaneuver him.
And from convoy heists to precision tunnel crawls across international lines, two men will find the best way to get revenge: push the limits of what’s possible behind the wheel.
– Written by Universal Studios
Fast Five – Extended Edition (unrated extended cut, 4/5 stars, currently priced to own at $7.99 in HD)
Former cop Brian O’Conner partners with ex-con Dom Toretto on the opposite side of the law. Since Brian and Mia Toretto broke Dom out of custody, they’ve blown across many borders to elude authorities. Now backed into a corner in Rio de Janeiro, they must pull one last job in order to gain their freedom.
As they assemble their elite team of top racers, the unlikely allies know their only shot of getting out for good means confronting the corrupt businessman who wants them dead. But he’s not the only one on their tail. Hard-nosed federal agent Luke Hobbs never misses his target.
When he is assigned to track down Dom and Brian, he and his strike team launch an all-out assault to capture them. But as his men tear through Brazil, Hobbs learns he can’t separate the good guys from the bad. Now, he must rely on his instincts to corner his prey… before someone else runs them down first.
– Written by Universal Pictures
Fast & Furious 6 (PG-13, 4/5 stars, currently priced to own at $7.99 in HD)
Since Dom (Diesel) and Brian’s (Walker) Rio heist toppled a kingpin’s empire and left their crew with $100 million, our heroes have scattered across the globe. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam have left their lives incomplete.
Meanwhile, Hobbs (Johnson) has been tracking an organization of lethally skilled mercenary drivers across 12 countries, whose mastermind (Evans) is aided by a ruthless second-in-command revealed to be the love Dom thought was dead, Letty (Rodriguez).
The only way to stop the criminal outfit is to outmatch them at street level, so Hobbs asks Dom to assemble his elite team in London. Payment? Full pardons for all of them so they can return home and make their families whole again.
– Written by Universal Pictures
Furious 7 (PG-13, 4.5/5 stars, currently priced to own at $7.99 in HD)
Dominic and his crew thought they’d left the criminal mercenary life behind. They’d defeated international terrorist Owen Shaw and went their separate ways. But now, Shaw’s brother, Deckard Shaw, is out killing the crew one by one for revenge.
Worse, a Somalian terrorist called Jakarde and a shady government official called “Mr. Nobody” are both competing to steal a computer terrorism program called “God’s Eye,” that can turn any technological device into a weapon.
Torretto must reconvene with his team to stop Shaw and retrieve the God’s Eye program while caught in a power struggle between the terrorist and the United States government.
– Written by Universal Pictures
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