F9 Secretly Set Up Fast & Furious 10 Returning To Its Roots

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Despite its ridiculous action, F9still retained some of the essence of the original The Fast and the Furious, setting up Fast X to become more faithful to its roots. Every sequel in the Fast & Furious franchise has notably upped the ante. The first movie focused on street racing, but by Fast 5, Dom and his crew were performing full-blown heists. In Fast & Furious 7, they were driving cars through skyscrapers, and in The Fate of the Furious, they saved the world from a nuclear catastrophe. But as unlikely as it sounds, Fast X can return to the franchise's roots.

Released exactly 20 years after the first movie, F9 continued to raise the stakes with stunts that included rope-swinging cars, a landmine-field chase, and a rocket car. The global conspiracies and near-superhuman antiheroes that Dom and company have had to face are also a far cry from the street races of the first film, which centered solely on one police officer, Paul Walker's Brian O'Conner, in pursuit of one street racer, Vin Diesel's Dominic Toretto. While these elements seem to be long gone in F9, the ninth installment dropped some hints that the franchise hasn't lost all its initial essence.

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F9 included references to previous Fast & Furious movies. Dom and Jakob's race depicted in flashbacks ends in Dom's favor because he hits the NOS only at the very end — a method that earns him a victory in the first race between him and Brian in 2001's The Fast and the Furious. This sequence is the closest to encapsulating the tone and scope of the original movie, not only in F9 but in all of the sequels since 2009'sFast & Furious. Another Easter egg in F9 is the "10-second car" Dom gives Jakob so