Fast & Furious 6

Essential, and stay for the scene after the credits. It is the most consequential thirty seconds in the series: it reveals who was responsible for an event in Tokyo Drift, retroactively ties a film released seven years earlier into the main story, and is the entire reason this site puts Tokyo Drift sixth rather than third.

The film before it is the heist formula run at a larger scale. The crew is recruited by Hobbs to chase a former special forces officer with a crew of his own, which gives the film its best idea: an opposing team with the same specialisms, so every member has a counterpart. The plot runs on Letty's amnesia, which is a soap-opera device the film is entirely unembarrassed about.

The set pieces are where it tips over. A tank on a Spanish motorway crushing cars is enormous fun. The runway finale, in which an aircraft taxis for what has been calculated as considerably longer than any real runway, is the moment the series publicly stopped pretending, and it is funnier and better for it.

Luke Evans is the best villain the franchise has had, playing a man whose argument with Dom is explicitly about tools versus family. Watch Tokyo Drift immediately after this one, which is where the chronological toggle will send you.