Fast X, the latest installment in the adrenaline-filled blockbuster franchise, offers an exciting ending and a more riveting post-credits scene that will have moviegoers on the edge of their seats.
The last scenes of the movie, in particular, provides a thrilling and unexpected twist that will leave viewers hungry for more.
As promised earlier this year, Fast X cuts on a cliffhanger ending. Instead of an epic face-off between Dominic Torreto (Vin Diesel) and Dante Reyes (Jason Momoa) with Diesel’s character standing victorious, it’s the other way around. The curtain closes on Torreto’s family finally meeting their demise at the hands of Dante as Dom and his son find themselves trapped at the bottom of a massive dam that Dante is about to blow to smithereens. Dom’s brother, Jakob (John Cena) is nowhere in sight and believed to be dead while Ames (Alan Ritchson) has just taken out the rest of Dom’s crew by crashing the plane that carried everyone, including Tej (Ludacris), Roman (Tyrese Gibson), Ramsey (Nathalie Emmanuel), and Han (Sung Kang).
But, there’s a silver lining. Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) and Cipher (Charlize Theron) have managed to escape from the black site in Antarctica and are rescued by none other than Gisele Yashar (Gal Gadot) who, as per the earlier leaks, is alive and kicking.
However, that’s not all that’s happening at the end of Fast X that will have you gasping and shocked.
In the final post-credits scene for Fast X, we’re treated to a boulder of a masked man in full tactical gear moving through what looks like the same room where Dom found Dante’s “vision board” from the earlier parts of Fast X. As the man picks up the ringing phone, Dante tells him the same thing that he’s told everyone else throughout Fast X: “you killed my dad so I’m going to kill you.”
The man, who’s obviously someone we know, removes his headgear and tells Dante off as the film finally cuts to black one last time.
If it wasn’t obvious already, the final scene of Fast X confirms that Agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) is back.
How and why The Rock has come back to the Fast and Furious franchise is a question we’ll ask another day. For now, fans will be happy to know that Dom and his crew still have at least one more ally on their side and he’ll likely stop at nothing to take down Dante Reyes.
Fast X doesn’t usually do post-credits scenes like these. The last time this happened was in Fast Five, which ironically was also in Fast Five, the events of which are now coming back to haunt the “family”.
The end of Fast X and the post-credits scene leave a lot of room for speculation. Did Dom’s family survive? How are Dom and his son going to pull off a miracle and survive a blast that can take out an entire dam? When did The Rock come back to do Fast X? Does The Rock’s involvement now mean that the plot for the finale to the Fast and Furious franchise has changed?
Regardless of what the answers to these questions are, it’s clear that the stage is now set for an electrifying denouement in 2025.
Fingers crossed, all this excitement has gotten Robert Downey Jr. thinking of joining the franchise after Vin Diesel publicly asked him to be the series’ final villain.
The final Fast and Furious film will premiere sometime in 2025, but if you ask Universal Pictures, they’re hoping everyone will go back to do at least one more movie to turn the finale into a trilogy.
