Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) pull off an insane heist, ripping a massive bank vault out of a building and dragging it through the streets of Rio with their Dodge Chargers.

For a long time, I regarded the Fast & Furious franchise as beneath me. The movies appeared to be nothing more than a series of vapid car commercials and, not being much of a car guy, there was really ...