With the release of Fast & Furious this Friday, Vin Diesel joins the elite ranks of actors who have starred in franchises that have spun off more than two sequels. Now that Vin is rubbing shoulders with such lucky thesps as Robert Englund, Bill Shatner, and Kane Hodder, we thought this week would be the perfect time to devote an installment of Total Recall to the Diesel filmography, and recount the critical high points of a journey that's taken him from bit player to $100 million-grossing star and multi-hyphenate media mogul. Get ready for plenty of action, folks -- it's Vin Diesel time!

Obviously, Diesel's films haven't always enjoyed the kindest reviews -- his overall Tomatometer is a rather depressing 21 percent -- but as much as we might like to chuckle at critical turkeys like The Pacifier and Babylon A.D., the truth is that he's always been much more ambitious than some of his script choices might indicate; though there's no getting around the fact that this list is bogged down with questionable fare like 2002's Knockaround Guys, it would be unfair not to give Diesel credit for the positive reviews he's earned while starring in critical duds (Find Me Guilty), the unqualified bright spots on his resume (The Iron Giant), or the surprisingly long list of behind-the-scenes credits he's amassed. So let's give Vin his due, shall we? Here, without further delay, are the 10 best-reviewed movies of Mr. Diesel's career!

20%

Rotten

10. Knockaround Guys

Released after years in limbo in order to take advantage of Diesel's newfound popularity in the wake of Pitch Black and The Fast and the Furious, Brian Koppelman and David Levien's Knockaround Guys presented -- on paper, anyway -- an interesting twist on the gangster action comedy genre, fusing mob warfare and frontier justice via a plot that sent a pack of wiseguys to a small Montana town in pursuit of a missing bag of money. Despite this relatively novel premise, and a cast that included generally reliable character actors like Seth Green, John Malkovich, and Dennis Hopper, Knockaround received a fate worthy of its title, landing with a thud at the box office and dropping to 20 percent on the Tomatometer thanks to reviews from critics like Movie Eye's Frank Ochieng, who wrote, "It may not be instantly forgettable, but it comes close."

21%

Rotten

9. The Pacifier

Ever since Arnold screamed "It's not a tumor!" action stars have known that the quickest path from squinty-eyed genre hero to bona fide box office royalty has been taking a role in a family flick that uses its star's beefy bod to comedic effect. Yes, it's the quickest path -- but notice we didn't say it's a failsafe one: for every Kindergarten Cop or The Game Plan, there's a Mr. Nanny...or The Pacifier, Vin Diesel's entry into the kiddie pool. As a Navy SEAL who ends up babysitting his dead partner's five children (and directing a high school production of The Sound of Music in the process), Diesel did well enough to earn begrudging admiration from some critics (like Jim Schembri of the Sydney Morning Herald, who complimented him for "[working] hard with a cast of great kids") -- and take the movie over $100 million at the box office -- but all in all, it was a complete critical dud. "Per its title," wrote Nigel Floyd of Time Out, "The Pacifier will lull you to sleep."

30%

Rotten

8. The Chronicles of Riddick

Four years after the surprise success of Pitch Black helped make him a star, Diesel returned to the role of the frequently goggled escaped convict Richard B. Riddick for The Chronicles of Riddick, a sequel that added $82 million to its predecessor's budget in return for a more expansive storyline, better special effects, and the most inexplicable appearance of Dame Judi Dench's long and distinguished career. Riddick cracked the $100 million mark, ekeing out a small return on Universal's investment, but after Pitch Black, audiences and critics were expecting something more from the second installment of writer/director David Twohy's sci-fi franchise. "It's no Battlefield Earth," wrote Empire's Ian Nathan, "but it's no Dune either. And no, before you ask, it's not destined to be a cult classic."