Fast Five (alternatively known as Fast & Furious 5 or Fast & Livid 5: 
Rio Heist) is a next American action film directed by Justin Lin and written 
by Chris Morgan. It is the fifth installment in the Fast and the Furious 
franchise. Exercise routines, meal released first in Australia on The spring of 
20, 2011, and then in the united states on April 29, 2011. Fast Twelve follows 
Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel), Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker), and Mia Toretto 
(Jordana Brewster) as they plan any kind of heist to steal $100 million ranging 
from corrupt businessman Hernan Reyes (Joaquim p Almeida) while being pursued 
for stop by U.S. Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne 
Johnson). 
When developing Fast Five, Universal Studios deliberately departed 
from the street motorcycle racing theme prevalent in previous films the actual 
world series, to transform the franchise to produce a heist action series 
involving cars. Technique so, they hoped to attract much wider audiences that 
might otherwise be put out by a heavy emphasis on new or used vehicles and car 
culture. Fast Five is considered the transitional film in the series, utilizing 
only one car race and by offering more attention to action set writtings such as 
gun fights, brawls, and the heist of $100 million. The fabrication mounted a 
comprehensive marketing campaign, discount the film through social media, 
devoted games, cinema chains, automobile manufacturers, in addition to NASCAR 
races. 
Fast Five achieved bankruptcy success, breaking box school records 
for the highest-grossing April opening weekend along with the second-highest 
spring opening weekend, and surpassing Fast & Furious (2009) to end up being 
the highest-grossing film in usually the franchise. Fast Five presents grossed 
over $625 billion dollars worldwide, making it series 66 on the all-time 
worldwide list of highest-grossing films, in unadjusted dollars, and the 
seventh-highest-grossing movies of 2011.
Fast Five received most likely 
positive reviews, with folks praising the combination involving comedy and 
"action sequences that toy idly more than laws of physics"; selected labeled 
it the best film in the franchise. Johnson was singled out for praise within 
reviews for his performance, with critics calling your own "the best thing, when 
far, in Fast Five" and remarking that clips shared by Johnson as well Diesel 
were often your current "best moments". Despite the positive response, many 
were vital of the film's starting time, considering it of course long, and 
others criticized the treatment of women, stating "[Females] cameo amazingly in 
buttock form. The others actually have first stage names." South American 
reviewers were critical of my film's portrayal of Rio de Janeiro as a new haven 
for drug trafficking and corruption, labeling the site a "stereotype". A 
sequel, Fast & Furious 6, was released in May well 2013 to box dept success, 
surpassing Fast Twelve as the highest-grossing window tinting in the franchise. 
Far more sequel, Furious 7, provided in April 2015, easily surpassed Fast & 
Livid 6, grossing over $1.5 billion worldwide. 

