
“If you have what it takes, you can have it all.”
Dominic Toretto is a Los Angeles street racer suspected of masterminding a series of big-rig hijackings. When undercover cop Brian O'Conner infiltrates Toretto's iconoclastic crew, he falls for Toretto's sister and must choose a side: the gang or the LAPD.
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of The Fast and the Furious, not taken from this film’s own record.
The Fast and the Furious (2001) ranks 3rd of the 11 rated films in The Fast and the Furious series, at 7.0/10 on TMDB against a series average of 6.9/10.
It is the film that started the series, 22 years before the most recent entry, Fast X (2023).
Its 11,107 TMDB ratings are 11% of the 100,385 cast across the series.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for The Fast and the Furious, comparing all 11 released films in the series. Last recalculated September 2026.

The Fast and the Furious is film 1 of 12. See the complete watch order.