Vin Diesel's 8 Best Movies, Ranked

Vin Diesel's top 8 by movie.guru score. Uncomfortable truth up front: his three best movies are the ones where he's only a voice.

The #1 pick made the least money here, and you never see him.

1. 8
   Pitch Black (2000)6.0

   A crowd favorite critics never really warmed up to.

   59% on Rotten Tomatoes, 7.0 on IMDb. A $23M reported budget, one dark planet, and a pair of goggles doing half the acting.
2. 7
   The Fate of the Furious (2017)6.2

   A billion-dollar movie that forgot about family.

   $1.24 billion worldwide, yet the Guru's Take is 5.4, the lowest on this list. Dom goes rogue and the plot needs a tow truck.
3. 6
   Fast & Furious 6 (2013)7.1

   Peak franchise silliness, and that's the whole selling point.

   Audiences beat 80% of movies, critics only 50%. $788.7 million worldwide for a film where physics files a complaint every ten minutes.
4. 5
   Fast Five (2011)7.6

   The best Fast movie, because it's secretly a heist film.

   Justin Lin swapped street racing for a vault job and it clicked: 77% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 7.5 Guru's Take, the highest of any Fast entry here.
5. 4
   Furious 7 (2015)7.8

   Higher score than Fast Five. Worse movie than Fast Five.

   $1.52 billion worldwide, the biggest gross on this list, and a 7.8 movie.guru score. The Guru's Take is 6.8. The heart does the heavy lifting, not the plot.
6. 3
   Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)8.3

   Baby Groot carries a sequel that's mostly group hugs.

   Audiences beat 90% of movies, critics 70%. An 8.3 movie.guru score against a 6.8 Guru's Take. Diesel's script is three words, repeated.
7. 2
   Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)9.0

   Three words of dialogue, his second best movie ever.

   A 9.0 movie.guru score, 91% on Rotten Tomatoes, 1.39 million IMDb votes. He says one line on loop and still beats every Fast movie he headlined.
8. 1
   The Iron Giant (1999)9.3

   His best movie is a 1999 cartoon that bombed.

   96% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 9.3 movie.guru score, but just $23.3 million worldwide on a reported $48 to 50M budget. Diesel voices a robot. History caught up.

$1,743 says someone in the comments types 'I am Groot' and honestly believes they're the first.

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