What is the best Vin Diesel movie of all time?

From muscle-car franchise blockbusters and a scene-stealing voice role to gritty indie dramas he wrote and starred in decades earlier, this filmography swings between mainstream spectacle and quiet character work. Which side of Vin Diesel's career deserves the top spot?

1. 1
   Fast Five

   Widely considered the franchise's creative peak, where Dom's crew pulls off a Rio heist and the series pivots to full heist-action.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Furious 7

   The emotional franchise high point, doubling as an in-story farewell to co-star Paul Walker after his death mid-production.
   1000pts
3. 3
   Find Me Guilty

   A Sidney Lumet-directed courtroom dramedy where Diesel plays real-life mobster Jackie DiNorscio defending himself at his own racketeering trial.
   943pts
4. 4
   The Fate of the Furious

   Dom is blackmailed into betraying his crew in this franchise entry that leans further into globe-trotting spy-action territory.
   771pts
5. 5
   Boiler Room

   Diesel plays a slick, morally ambiguous stockbroker in this drama about a shady brokerage firm.
   600pts
6. 6
   Guardians of the Galaxy

   Diesel voices Groot, the tree-like alien whose "I am Groot" became a pop-culture catchphrase across the MCU.
   600pts
7. 7
   Multi-Facial

   A self-financed short film Diesel wrote, directed, and starred in about a mixed-race actor struggling in Hollywood, which caught Spielberg's attention.
   600pts
8. 8
   Bloodshot

   Diesel plays a slain soldier resurrected as a nanotech-powered super-soldier in this comic-book adaptation.
   600pts
9. 9
   The Chronicles of Riddick

   A big-budget sci-fi epic expanding Riddick's universe as he's drawn into a war against a galactic army.
   600pts
10. 10
    Pitch Black

    Diesel's breakout leading-man role as the antihero Riddick, an escaped convict who becomes humanity's best hope when monsters attack a crashed spaceship crew.
    600pts
11. 11
    F9

    Dom confronts his estranged brother Jakob in an increasingly over-the-top late-franchise entry.
    491pts
12. 12
    The Fast and the Furious

    The film that launched the franchise and made Diesel a star, with him originating Dominic Toretto in a street-racing heist thriller.
    360pts
13. 13
    Riddick

    The third installment, stripping the story back to a survivalist sci-fi thriller on a hostile alien planet.
    360pts
14. 14
    Strays

    Diesel's first feature, again self-written and directed, in which he stars as a small-time drug dealer trying to leave that life behind.
    360pts
15. 15
    A Man Apart

    Diesel stars as a DEA agent on a revenge-fueled mission against a drug cartel after tragedy strikes his family.
    360pts
16. 16
    xXx

    Diesel headlines as extreme-sports-daredevil-turned-spy Xander Cage in this stunt-heavy actioner that rivaled Fast & Furious for defining his star persona.
    360pts
17. 17
    The Pacifier

    A family-comedy left turn where Diesel plays a Navy SEAL assigned to babysit an unruly family of kids.
    360pts
18. 18
    Saving Private Ryan

    Diesel appears as Private Adrian Caparzo in Spielberg's Best Picture-nominated WWII epic, the role that put him on Hollywood's radar.
    200pts