What to remember about the Fast and Furious movies before watching Fast X
The latest movie in the Fast and Furious franchise, Fast X, periodically stops for quick recaps and overviews of the past nine movies. There are so many callbacks and follow-ups in this movie that it sometimes gets dizzying: Fans are meant to be quoting the MCU’s Captain America every three minutes with a jaunty “I understood that reference!” But if you haven’t revisited every Fast movie recently, you missed a few of them along the way, or you’re reserving all your brain cells to keep track of everything that’s happened in the MCU instead, you may want a primer going in so you can follow the action. Here’s a non-spoilery rundown of things to be aware of from past Fast movies before watching Fast X.
Fast X opens with a flashback to some action in Fast Five, where Dom Toretto and crew stole a vault from Hernan Reyes (Joaquim de Almeida). Why do they hate Reyes? Because he’s a notorious drug kingpin in the Fast and Furious universe, someone the Fast family ran afoul of in Brazil. After Dom and company unwittingly steal one of Reyes’ cars, which happens to have a chip with information on all Reyes’ financial crimes on it, Reyes captures and interrogates them.
That leads to Dom and friends deciding that Reyes might not be a great guy, and they decide to steal some of his money in order to make a new life for themselves. They burn the first bit of money they steal to send a message, which leads to Reyes consolidating the rest of his money inside a police station vault, which the team steals in a big, showy action sequence.
Mr. Nobody is the head of the shadowy government organization known only as The Agency. Mr. Nobody, played by Kurt Russell, first showed up in Furious 7. His second-in-command, codenamed Little Nobody (and
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