The crazy stunts. The ripe dialogue. The huge box office. The comraderie. As Fast & Furious 8 comes roaring down the road, here's our film-by-film guide to the franchise so far Back in 2001 when – a modestly-budgeted retread of Point Break set in the world of illegal street racing – was first released, few would have predicted that it would spawn a slew of increasingly profitable sequels, each with a cast more impressive and stunts more self-consciously ludicrous than the last. Now in its eighth instalment, here’s our -by-film guide to everything you need to know about the series so far. The Fast and the Furious (2001).