Fast X

Fast X (also known as Fast & Furious 10) is a 2023 American action film directed by Louis Leterrier from a screenplay by Dan Mazeau and Justin Lin, both of whom also co-wrote the story with Zach Dean. The sequel to F9 (2021), it is the tenth main installment and the eleventh installment overall in the Fast & Furious franchise. It stars Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto, alongside Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, John Cena, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jordana Brewster, Sung Kang, Scott Eastwood, Daniela Melchior, Alan Ritchson, Helen Mirren, Brie Larson, Rita Moreno, Jason Statham, Jason Momoa, and Charlize Theron. In the film, Toretto must protect his family from Dante Reyes (Momoa), who pursues revenge for his father's death and the loss of their fortune.

Development on a tenth main Fast & Furious film began by October 2020, with Lin returning to direct. The film's official title was revealed when principal photography began in April 2022. Lin left as director later that month, citing creative differences, though he retained writing and producing credits. Leterrier was then hired as his replacement a week later and performed several uncredited rewrites to the screenplay. Longtime franchise composer Brian Tyler returned to score the film. With an estimated net production budget of $378.8 million, Fast X is the sixth-most expensive film ever made. Filming lasted until that August, taking place in London, Rome, Turin, Lisbon, and Los Angeles.

Fast X premiered in Rome on May 12, 2023, and was released in the United States on May 19, by Universal Pictures. The film received mixed reviews from critics, with praise for its action sequences and Momoa's performance but criticism towards the writing. It grossed $714 million worldwide, becoming the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2023. A sequel, titled Fast Forever, is scheduled to be released on March 17, 2028.

Plot

Dominic "Dom" Toretto and his team are requested by the Agency to steal a computer chip during its transit in Rome. He and his wife Leticia "Letty" Ortiz stay behind with his son Brian "Little B" Marcos, while the rest of the team, consisting of Roman Pearce, Tej Parker, Han Lue, and Ramsey, travels to Rome. A wounded Cipher arrives at Dom's home in the middle of the night. She tells him and Letty that Hernan Reyes's son Dante has turned her crew against her by kidnapping their families and is using them to target Dom as revenge for his father's death and the loss of his family's fortune ten years prior. The next morning, when Little Nobody informs Dom and Letty about the unplanned Agency mission in Rome, they realize this as a setup and travel to Rome to rescue the team.

In Rome, Tej, and Ramsey break into the truck presumably containing the computer chip, only for them to realize it as a DM-79 sub-nautical neutron mine. Dante begins controlling the truck remotely, activating and releasing the bomb into the streets. Dom arrives and pushes the bomb into the Tiber River, minimizing the damage, and Letty is apprehended by the police. Aimes, the Agency's de facto leader since Mr. Nobody's disappearance, assumes that Dom and his team are responsible for the bombing and begins a manhunt. In Los Angeles, Dom and Mia's brother Jakob rescues Mia and Little B from a squad sent by Aimes to apprehend them, and with Mia's approval, takes Little B to a secret location in Portugal, where they will await Dom. Mr. Nobody's daughter Tess is convinced of the team's innocence and uses God's Eye, a mass surveillance computer program, to find Dom in Naples, informing him that Dante is in Rio de Janeiro.

Dom challenges Dante to a race in Rio with Elena Neves's sister Isabel and his ally Diogo. In the ensuing race, Dante kills Diogo with a bomb mounted on the chassis of his Porsche 911 when Dom chooses to save Isabel and wins. Tess visits Letty at the black site, covertly wounding her in the process; this sends Letty to the prison's treatment center, where Cipher is present. Deducing that the black site is located in Antarctica, they must work together to escape.

In London, Dom's team turns to Deckard Shaw for help, through the convincing of Han after a scuffle between himself and Deckard. Aimes apprehends Dom in Rio before Dante intercepts them on the same bridge where the two previously met for the first time during the vault heist. After a sniper injures Tess, Dante steals God's Eye from her. While Tess is taken to the hospital, Aimes allies with Dom to fight Dante.

Dante locates Little B in Portugal and kidnaps him. As Dom is cornered by mercenaries, Jakob sacrifices himself to wipe them all out, allowing Dom to rescue Little B. Dante again corners the pair and acknowledges Aimes as a double agent working with him and his father, at which point the latter shoots down a plane carrying Roman, Tej, Ramsey, and Han. Dom drives off the edge of the dam he and Little B are on to avoid another trap. Witnessing their escape, Dante declares Dom's suffering over and triggers explosives planted onto the dam, intending to kill the pair. In Antarctica, Gisele Yashar, who was presumed dead, emerges from a submarine to rescue Letty and Cipher.

In a mid-credits scene, Luke Hobbs infiltrates an abandoned theater with a team of agents where he is contacted by Dante, who tells him that he will be his next target for killing his father. Hobbs replies that he is not hard to find, and crushes the phone Dante contacted him on with his bare hands.