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“Furious 7” is a glorious overcompensation, a film so concerned about its rampant machismo that the casual viewer might miss how it Tokyo-drifts atop soap opera bubbles. Like Lee Daniels’ hit TV drama “ Empire ,” “Furious 7” is stuffed with situations that require go-for-broke absurdity, but even Daniels and his nighttime soap predecessor Aaron Spelling would pause before attempting the level of “get the f—k outta here!” style shenanigans director James Wan and writer Chris Morgan employ.

Standing atop this installment of the series is its own Cookie Lyon, Dominic Toretto ( Vin Diesel ). Like Cookie, played by Taraji P. Henson on “Empire”, Toretto will protect those he loves at any cost. He spends the entire film seeking revenge. Those unfamiliar with the franchise will be left to their own devices as to why. There’s no “last time on the Fast and the Furious” recap to get you up to speed, and one shouldn’t expect it from a movie with “7” in its title. Viewers of “Fast and Furious 6” will know that the Tokyo-set demise of Han ( Sung Kang ), one of the main characters, sets this new installment’s plot in motion. After a package mailed from Tokyo nearly blows Toretto and his comrade-in-arms Brian ( Paul Walker ) to smithereens, Toretto senses a connection and is immediately out for blood.

The bomb, and Han’s death, are courtesy of Deckard Shaw ( Jason Statham ), an Englishman whose first stateside order of business is to hack the computer of Luke Hobbs (Dwayne “ The Rock ” Johnson) to find Toretto and his cohorts. Hobbs has this information because— last time on “ The Fast and the Furious “ —Hobbs’ DSS agent practically blackmailed Toretto and company to help him take down a mercenary organization run by Deckard Shaw’s brother, Owen ( Luke Evans ). In exchange for succeeding at this job and killing Owen, Hobbs cleared the criminal records the Toretto Team acquired two movies ago. For having this information, Hobbs is severely injured by Deckard in one of “Furious 7”’s numerous fight sequences.

Toretto reassembles his crew, which includes Brian, IT guy Tej (Chris “Ludacris” Bridges), smooth-talker Roman (Tyrese) and Dominic’s partner, Letty ( Michelle Rodriguez ). Letty has amnesia because, previously on “The Fast and The Furious ,” she got blown up and was presumed dead. Though she has no memory of her former romantic life with Dominic, he holds out hope she’ll regain her memory.

The biggest catfights in the movie aren’t between Ronda Rousey and Michelle Rodriguez, they’re between the two men. Deckard somehow manages to appear wherever Toretto is, demanding retribution and throwing monkey wrenches into Toretto’s plans. The two constantly crash their cars into each other, then crawl out of the wreckage to brawl with pipes, fists and feet. It’s hilarious, as if Deckard has a tracking device on Toretto and is stalking him like a scorned lover.

Speaking of tracking devices, “Furious 7” not only has one, it’s the most powerful spy device in film history. Currently in the hands of Jakonde ( Djimon Hounsou ), it uses surveillance cameras, cell phones and other eyes in the sky to track anybody. Toretto’s team is “hired” to retrieve it so they can track Deckard, though as Toretto correctly notes, “I could just stand here and wait for him to find me.” If he had, old people like me wouldn’t be blessed with an appearance by Snake Plissken himself, Kurt Russell . Russell’s Mr. Nobody provides information and the use of the device should Toretto retrieve it. He’s a classic Kurt Russell character, and as the Gershwins once queried, “who could ask for anything more?” He steals the film simply by putting on night vision sunglasses.

The tracking device comes with a gorgeous programmer named Ramsey ( Nathalie Emmanuel ) and enough enemies to populate a final battle that basically levels Los Angeles. Amidst all this carnage, “Furious 7” finds time for drool-worthy car porn and so many shots of bikini-clad females that it feels like a Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker parody of “Baby Got Back.” Even Ramsey gets a gratuitous ogling by the camera—that is, when it’s not licking car metal and panting over its willful destruction.

I haven’t scratched the surface of the plot. Not that it matters, though, as the film’s primary concern is putting its viewers through an action-packed wringer. Wan, whose hyper camera tricks have annoyed me in movies like “ Insidious ”, “ The Conjuring ” and “ Saw ”, has finally found the right project to match his style. The fight sequences have the usual sped-up kinetics, but Wan frames them so they’re not hard to follow. The car scenes are equally proficient. And the film’s midsection, which piles action sequence upon action sequence, is the most riveting and exciting set piece I’ve seen in years. It pulses with adrenaline and a visual humor to match the comic camaraderie of its characters.

The actors, whose appearances span several entries in the series, have a character-driven, lived-in comfort with one another: They are all believable as the “family” Toretto refers to in that cheesy line from the commercial. This is an immensely entertaining movie, and if the filmmakers are wise, they’ll quit on this high note.

One final thing: “Furious 7” ends with a wonderful tribute to Paul Walker, the actor who was killed in a car accident in the middle of filming this movie. Before a montage of his appearances in the series, there’s a callback to the first film and some tender dialogue between Diesel and Walker. Wan’s camera then catches an overhead shot of a highway dividing. As Diesel narrates, we see the two leads’ cars go in different directions, like a visual representation of Robert Frost ’s “The Road Not Taken.” Since Walker appeared in six of the seven films, he is the series’ equivalent of the North Star. Future installments will find that fixed mark of the Northern Hemisphere’s upward gaze missing from its sky. So this tribute is very emotional for fans of both the series and the actor, because it’s as if the fictional “Furious 7” knows that you know that Walker is gone.

And yet, I must admit there are moments in the film where this knowledge makes for uncomfortable viewing. Some of the more vicious car crashes and explosions are uneasy reminders, and while the film is careful not to evoke any parallels in scenes with Walker, his untimely death was never far from my mind. This is not a criticism; as I said, the tribute is wonderful, and the movie is a lot of fun. It’s just an acknowledgment that I sometimes felt guilty for enjoying the car chases so much. Your mileage may vary.

Odie Henderson

Odie “Odienator” Henderson has spent over 33 years working in Information Technology. He runs the blogs Big Media Vandalism and Tales of Odienary Madness. Read his answers to our Movie Love Questionnaire here .

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... the character is ladled on thick and the stunts are so outrageous that you either dismiss the whole thing out of hand or go with the madness and enjoy the ride.

Full Review | Oct 6, 2023

The film features some wild stunts and really drives home the family theme that has come to dominate the series.

Full Review | May 2, 2023

A heartfelt send-off, giving this entry more emotional weight than would be usual. Its primary focus, however, is still on being absurdly entertaining.

Full Review | Oct 17, 2022

But let’s be honest and true, nobody goes to a “Fast and Furious” movie for the performances. It’s all about the cars and the action. We get a lot of both.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 21, 2022

Your brain cells will be pummeled into submission over the course of an overlong two-hours-and-seventeen-minutes; your tolerance for subpar acting will be tested, and then some; but those in the mood for such diversions will be delighted.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 21, 2022

Nearly a decade later, Furious 7, the sixth sixth sequel in the fascinating Fast and the Furious franchise, takes seemingly-impossible stunts to a whole new level rather, a whole new solar system.

Full Review | Feb 11, 2022

The zenith of the series' inspired ridiculousness before it began feeling overegged, Furious 7 offers a strong tribute to Paul Walker and would've frankly been a mighty ending for the entire enterprise.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 4, 2021

Furious 7 is something to see, strictly for the pure adrenaline and entertainment.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 31, 2021

The true shame is that, despite zero constraints on the magnitude of potential action sequences, few of the extravagant set pieces actually contain anything conceptually new.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Dec 4, 2020

Fast & Furious 7 certainly is the Ultimate tribute to Paul Walker; some of the scenes just make you want to cry...

Full Review | Original Score: 8.5/10 | Nov 20, 2020

After losing one of the stars in 2013, Furious 7 brings emotion as they always have.

Full Review | Nov 10, 2020

Essentially an action-packed and thrilling adventure with a thread of humanity.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 8, 2020

Despite the faults, Fast and Furious 7 is every bit as entertaining as its predecessors with an emotional weight that holds the film together for all the right reasons.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 16, 2020

There's a sincerity here that packs a surprisingly emotional counterpoint to the action.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jul 16, 2020

Watching Furious 7, you get the distinct impression that, when faced with a creative choice, the filmmakers paused to ask themselves, "What's the most insane, over the top thing we can do here?" Then they went ahead and did that.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 6, 2020

[Delivers] entertaining stunt action and [combines] it with a fun plot that not only keeps its sense of humor, but also contains a good deal of heart and emotion.

Full Review | Jun 30, 2020

If you leave logic at the door, buy the biggest popcorn bucket the theater has to offer, and want to have fun- Furious 7 is the film that will take you on the ride you're looking for.

Full Review | Original Score: 7.9/10 | Nov 13, 2019

"Furious 7" is probably one of the most ridiculous non-stop action rides you'll see this year. It's also probably one of the few action films which will also reduce you to tears by its end.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Oct 27, 2019

Convoluted as the story is, the way they say goodbye to Paul was well done and really very poignant.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 5, 2019

"Do we really need another Fast and Furious movie?" No. No we do not. We also didn't need to land on the moon. Nor did we need to create the 1967 Ford Mustang. We did it because it was awesome and we could, dammit.

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Review: In <i>Furious 7</i>, Gravity Is for Wimps

Review: In Furious 7 , Gravity Is for Wimps

T he rainbow coalition of hard drivers, grease monkeys and ultimate fighting women that make up the Fast and the Furious universe are charged with capturing a device from multinational miscreants bent on conquering the world. First, though, Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) has to arrange a rendezvous with his current nemesis Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham). They meet under an L.A. highway — Dom’s beloved ’69 Dodge R/T Charger growling at Deckard’s Aston Martin DB9 — and steer their vehicles into a high-speed head-on collision. Boom! It looks like mutually assured destruction, but nobody’s seriously hurt. It’s really just a workout for a couple of testosteronic gearheads, doing what manly men do best — crashing the cars they love.

The Fast and Furious movies — those odes to torn asphalt, crunching car-nage, auto-eroticism and, as the characters kept insisting, family values — have often shown a cavalier attitude toward death. Moviegoers in the theater must pretend that they are cocooned by film fantasy: that this universe is one that courts fatal impact without ever making good on the threat that may await audience members from some highway maniac on the drive home.

That blithe belief endured a toxic hit on Nov. 30, 2013. Paul Walker, who had played undercover cop Brian O’Conner since the original 2001 The Fast and the Furious , died when the Porsche Carrera GT driven by Walker’s friend Roger Rodas, a financial planner and amateur racer, crashed into a Valencia, Calif., light pole at a reported 80 to 90 m.p.h., igniting the car and killing both men. The star’s sudden death at 40 put a halt to the Furious 7 shoot and left series screenwriter Chris Morgan with two dreadful dilemmas: how to work Walker’s footage into a revamped movie and how to keep romanticizing the series’ theme — speed thrills — when it was also painfully evident that speed kills.

Furious 7 , opening nine months after the initial July 2014 release date, proves how splendidly, if preposterously, movie fiction can trump human tragedy. Without stinting on the greatest hits of the earlier films, it underlines the first law of cinema: that movies — and the people, stories and machines in them — have to move, collide, combust. Secure in this knowledge, 7 meets the demanding standards of the two previous entries, the crazy-great Fast Five (2011) and its amped-up, purified sequel Furious 6 (2013), while providing a tender onscreen farewell for the fallen Walker. It’s an enormous, steroidal blast, and as much ingenious fun as a blockbuster can be.

James Wan, the Saw and Conjuring magician who succeeded Justin Lin, director of the previous four entries, says he chose the Furious 7 title as a reference to Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 martial epic The Seven Samurai . Here, as there, rugged souls do humanity’s dirty work for the satisfaction and the fun. But in the Furious cosmos, these seven include two women. Brian has gone domestic with the foxy Mia (Jordana Brewster), and Dom is reunited with his lost love Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), still stricken with a telenovela case of amnesia. Tej (Chris “Ludacris” Bridges), the computer whiz, and Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson), the resident motormouth, are joined by federal agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson), who enlisted back in Fast Five and infused the skein with his cartoon gravitas.

As if to challenge the audience’s stomach for stark violence in a PG-13 film, Furious 7 begins with the fiery, almost Walker-like death of one of the series’ regulars (Sung Kang’s Han) and the totaling of Brian’s and Mia’s home. The villainous Deckard is supposed to be avenging the incapacitation of his brother Owen (Luke Evans), the prime bad guy from Furious 6, yet as he leaves Owen’s hospital he blows up his bro and the building that houses him. But this is just a crash test for sensitive viewers. The series long ago expanded from a drag-strip Götterdämmerung to a globe-circling showcase for spectacular stunts in exotic locales.

The plot: a CIA shadow who calls himself Mr. Nobody (Kurt Russell) wants the gang to corral some computer MacGuffin guarded by an IT genius named Ramsey (Nathalie Emmanuel, Game of Thrones’ Missandei) who’s been kidnapped by Deckard and pan-African warlord Jakande (Djimon Hounsou). Honestly, though, who cares? Ramsey is just the excuse for the group to infiltrate an Azerbaijan forest redoubt and recover the van that holds her. This sensational second-act chase, ramping up to Walker’s Brian in a literal cliffhanger, would be the climax of any other action picture, but it’s just a why-not escapade to keep you from going for popcorn during the movie’s two-hour-plus nonstop assault.

On we fly, to Abu Dhabi, where Dom and Brian hijack a sheik’s W Motors LykN Hypersport, vroom it out of the 50th floor of an Etihad Tower skyscraper and into the adjacent high-rise — and then again into a third building, before our heroes land somehow intact. “Cars can’t fly!” Brian keeps saying, but Furious 7 refutes all aeronautic logic with its next stunt, which one-ups the skydiving Elvises from the old movie (and the Broadway musical) Honeymoon in Vegas by dropping five members of the team and their cars 10,000 feet from a C-130 military transport. (Auto coordinator Dennis McCarthy, who deployed about 250 vehicles for the movie, insists that this was no illusion : the cars truly did float to earth, most of them safely.) By the end of the movie, back in L.A., you’re not surprised when a car can serve as surface-to-bad-guy-in-helicopter missile. In such a buoyant enterprise as this, gravity is for wimps.

Retaining one sweetly anachronistic element of the series, the cast goes not just fender-to-fender but fist on fist, bulk on bulk, hulk on hulk. Tough-guy franchise mavens Statham and Johnson mix it up in a fracas that leaves Hooks incapacitated for half of the movie — until he rises from his sick bed, cracks open his arm cast and mutters, “Time to go to work.” Rodriguez tangles with MMA Medusa Ronda Rousey, and Walker (or his stunt-double team) staves off a wondrously savage attack from Tony Jaa, the Muy Thai Warrior . As much as Furious 7 flirts with scenarios from The Avengers , in its heart, it still wants to be Fight Club .

No series with the worldwide box-office horsepower of this one — $2.4 billion so far, with a bonanza awaiting the release of Furious 7 — wants to imagine its own demise. So in its closing credits, each of the recent episodes has introduced a new villain for the next installment. Diesel, a Furious producer and guiding light, has said he sees 7 as the first in a third trilogy. (In strict chronology, the series is a kind of terrestrial Star Wars , in that the fourth through sixth films were one long flashback beginning at the end of the 2006 Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift ; Han’s death at Deckard’s hands brings the story back to the present.) Russell’s presence as Mr. Nobody may point toward future chapters, but 7 has no end-of-film tease. It must send its dead co-star on a verklempt trip to Valhalla.

In the series’ multiracial retinue of toughs, Walker’s Brian was the one WASP solid citizen. If the dark, glowering Diesel was the franchise’s engine, the blond Walker provided the ethical brakes — yin to Vin’s yang. Though the early films emphasized the near romantic charisma of this complementary couple, in Fast Five and Furious 6, Walker was really a supporting character, ornamental but not essential to the series’ grand grit. Yet Brian’s mulishness and recklessness sometimes hinted at a desperation in completing his mission. In the first film, when Dom doesn’t yet know that Brian is an undercover cop, Walker tells an FBI agent, “I just need some more time.” The agent snaps, “If you want Time, buy the magazine.”

Finally Walker ran out of it. But not Brian. Making judicious use of outtakes, CGI work and model-doubling from his younger brothers Caleb and Cody, the 7 filmmakers fully integrated the actor into the film. Their improvisatory skill and their feeling for their friend give his final moment a sleek, poignant, unforced grace. In a series that consistently elevates B-movie car crashes and smashes to state-of-the-art epiphanies, it’s only appropriate that a departed star should be able to cruise off to placid immortality.

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Furious 7 Is Thrilling, Ridiculous, and, Yes, Sad

Fast and Furious movies have always had a charming, cheesy bravado. And, muscled-up and oafishly macho as they may be—grunting with almost Dada levels of male performance—the films, beginning with The Fast and the Furious in 2001, have never been afraid of a little tough-guy heart. ( Vin Diesel’s character loves to gravel on about the importance of family.) But they’ve never really had any poignancy to them, have never provoked much emotion beyond a giddy feeling of excitement and, let’s be honest, no small amount of arousal. (All that vroom-vroom, all that shake-shake, all that flex-flex? Come on!) Until Furious 7 , that is. The latest film, which opens Friday, can’t help but take on some deeper meaning, as the death of main cast member Paul Walker , killed in a car accident in late 2013, looms large throughout. But it doesn’t overwhelm— Furious 7 is respectful, even solemn, when it needs to be, but is still, thank God, plenty of crazy fun.

We’ll get to the serious stuff, but first let’s appreciate what a dopey, joyous wonder this film franchise has become. What began almost quaintly small-scale in the first film—drag racing SoCal rough riders who stage nighttime raids on freight trucks—has ballooned into a never-ending global melee. Diesel’s Dominic Toretto and his crew, which includes Walker’s Brian O’Conner and Michelle Rodriguez’s Letty Ortiz, among many others, have become international mercenaries of a sort, a family that works for itself but is inevitably swept up in some kind of larger intrigue. Why a gang of gearheads from the wilds of Los Angeles would be so routinely involved in, and capable of navigating, such high-stakes adventures isn’t worth thinking about. The F&F movies long ago skipped the realm of plausibility, or reason.

Which, really, is when they began to soar. Around Fast Five , when the crew became immune to the laws of physics, invincible to innumerable car crashes and severe beatings (among other traumas), these movies transcended to a plane of delirious nonsense. It’s such sublime absurdity that it’s easy to overlook, or slyly enjoy, all the clunky writing, to embrace the series’s odd conservatism, forgive all its sleazy leering. Turning these people and their roaring machines into impossibly acrobatic angels of destruction, the films have found a riotous sense of invention, a whirring imagination that dreams up one wildly staged action sequence after another. These mad operas of motor and metal are thrilling, gleeful, laugh-out-loud ridiculous, and always knowing. The movies’ insane macho posturing has become something endearing, instead of, y’know, embarrassing. (The posturing it has inspired in its rabid audiences is always a little of both. A friend has a wonderful story about going to see the first movie at a theater in tony suburban Connecticut, and then, in the parking lot afterward, seeing a bunch of teenage boys burn rubber in their parents’ Volvo station wagons.)

Furious 7 , directed with panache by James Wan , features two eye-popping set pieces. The first unfolds on a mountain road in Azerbaijan, and involves a bus, some souped-up dune buggies (mountain buggies?), and one hell of an aerial entrance. It’s beautifully choreographed, giving each player his or her little moment to shine, and culminating in not one but two bits of high-flying stuntery that, though made possible by computers, crunch and clamor with a bracing realness. The second big thrill is set in Abu Dhabi, at a fancy party in a high-rise penthouse. It involves an awesome, thunking fight between Letty and a bodyguard played by M.M.A. star Ronda Rousey , and a nifty bit of car play that I’d rather not spoil. But know that it is ludicrous, and done with a wonderful, cocky wink, and includes the line “Cars don’t fly.” Oh, but they do, Brian! They do .

Plot-wise, Furious 7 is, as one might expect, a jumbled MacGuffin game that makes very little sense. A Terminator-like Jason Statham is relentlessly stalking the crew to get revenge for his brother ( Luke Evans ), hobbled in a run-in with the gang in an earlier film. There’s also some sort of dangerous surveillance technology dreamed up by a kidnapped hacker ( Game of Thrones 's Nathalie Emmanuel , who is of course stunningly beautiful, in bikini and in evening gown) that Dom and company have to get their hands on, all the while evading Djimon Hounsou’s dogged terrorist, and getting some help from a secret-ops fed played with old-guy flair by Kurt Russell . And, obviously, there’s Dwayne Johnson’s muscle-man Agent Hobbs, on hand to bat cleanup. It all culminates in a big final action sequence, complete with a drone destroying much of downtown Los Angeles, that is, alas, too cluttered, too inarticulate (it doesn’t help that it’s at night) to really register the way the earlier spectaculars do. But, oh well. You don’t go to these movies for plot, or for total coherence all the way to the end. You go for a mostly good time, and Furious 7 is definitely that.

And, yes, it’s also sad. When the film reaches its denouement, it becomes time to address the gloomy fact that the cruel real world has put an end to, or at least a serious damper on, all of this fun. Walker filmed most of his scenes before he died, but there is some careful editing and some judiciously applied special effects that help round out his story. In the final moments of tribute, Furious 7 says a bittersweet goodbye as only it can, with Dom rhapsodizing about family and brotherhood, rasping over a lovingly filmed ode to the majesty of the open road. It’s all rather touching, actually, the way that this difficult, emotional thing is addressed by this close-knit team of toughs. I’ll confess to tearing up more than a little during those final few moments. Because tragedy shouldn’t invade this silly world, one that exists, in the kindest and most lucrative of ways, simply to entertain. And yet, tragedy doesn’t discriminate, so there it is. If this really is the end of the road for Fast and Furious as we know it, well, then, I’ll miss you, you reliably entertaining meathead movies. How else could such a review end but by saying, it’s been a heck of a ride.

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James wan narrates a sequence from “furious 7.”.

By A.O. Scott

April 1, 2015

In a recent interview in Variety , Vin Diesel predicted that “ Furious 7 ” would win the best picture Oscar at next year’s Academy Awards. “Unless the Oscars don’t want to be relevant ever,” he added, though that issue may already be settled. If Mr. Diesel’s prophecy doesn’t come true, it won’t necessarily be a matter of merit. Movies much worse than this lucky-number episode of an overachieving franchise — movies far less sure of their intentions, sincere in their themes or kind to their audiences — have snapped up statuettes. There will no doubt be better movies released in 2015, but “Furious 7” is an early favorite to win the prize for most picture.

Movie Review: ‘Furious 7’

The times critic a. o. scott reviews “furious 7.”.

Here is a movie with room for not one but two ruthless supervillains: a snarling pit bull played by Jason Statham and a terrorist mastermind played by Djimon Hounsou. Mr. Statham participates in an early, glass-shattering smackdown with Dwayne Johnson and a climactic, asphalt-shattering donnybrook with Mr. Diesel. And that’s not all. That is as far from all as Tokyo is from Abu Dhabi, or Azerbaijan from Los Angeles, to name just a few of the spots where this movie, kinetically directed by the horror master James Wan, pops its clutch and taps its brakes. Michelle Rodriguez, stunning in a red gown, takes on an all-female Emirati security detail. Mr. Johnson pops his arm out of a cast with the merest twitch of a biceps. Kurt Russell drinks a beer. Ludacris fiddles with a laptop. Paul Walker drives a minivan and trades kicks with Tony Jaa. And I haven’t even really gotten to the cars yet. One of them is a Subaru.

Motor vehicles are the whole point of the “Fast and Furious” gestalt: the power they confer; the tribal loyalties they inspire; the whine of their engines and the squeal of their tires. From modest beginnings, the series has grown into a global juggernaut. The first installment, released in June 2001 — before the first Harry Potter movie; before the cinematic dawn of the Marvel Universe; before Tesla — was a souped-up hot-rod movie, rooted in the street-racing subculture of Southern California.

As the movies expanded and internationalized, and characters came and went, the ideal of an automotive misfit fraternity remained at the center of each story. Though Mr. Diesel faded away in early sequels, his Dom Toretto has been the anchor and the glue. With his mouth-full-of-ball-bearings line readings, his heroic trapezius and his infinitely sorrowful eyes, Dom serves as coach, guru and big brother for the rest of the furious speedsters.

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'Fast and Furious 7': Review

By Fionnuala Halligan, Chief Film Critic 2015-03-31T08:19:00+01:00

Dir. James Wan. US, 2015. 137 mins

Screeching incomprehensibly from one stunt-filled set piece to the next, Fast And Furious 7 is an exuberantly high-octane ride across a ridiculously elaborate plot. It’s joyous, it’s crazy – cars skydive out of aircraft in Azerbaijan, no less - it’s exhaustively long, and, still, it’s clunkily lovable. Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Paul Walker, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, even Dwayne Johnson – they’re old friends now, and saying goodbye to Walker, who died mid-way through shooting, gives this instalment a particular poignancy (the actor’s two brothers worked to help complete the piece).

This frenetic editing doesn’t always aid the logic of a sequence, and it can be easy for the viewer to lose perspective, particularly during the film’s lengthy climax

Jaw-dropping stunts aside, the biggest surprise of the Fast and Furious franchise has always been how much money it makes for parent company Universal – over $2.4bn worldwide from its modest beginning 15 years ago when the first instalment took $207m. Fast and Furious 7 (aka Furious 7) could, in that sense, be the biggest shock of all. Drafting in Jason Statham from the Transporter series as a murderous “British badass”, Fast and Furious 7 is, as ever, a petrol-head’s delight and its heightened emotional notes should see increased revenues in all markets when it opens on April 3, even over the well-received 6 th instalment.

Australian director James Wan, known for horror ( Saw, The Conjuring, Insidious ) joins franchise HoD old hands including second unit and stunt director Spiro Razatos for a film which would have been a challenge even before the death of Walker in a car crash in November 2013, mid-way through shooting. After a decision was made to carry on, the script for Fast and Furious 7 was re-worked by series regular Chris Morgan and Wan found unused footage of Walker from previous Furious instalments to add to the material he had already shot. Walker’s brothers Cody and Caleb stood in for some sequences, with Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital responsible for compositing the actor’s face onto their bodies.

The result is eerily realistic, with only a few moments not standing up to close scrutiny. The film also plays with this knowledge and viewer expectations, constantly threatening Walker’s character Brian O’Connor with peril, or, at least, more than usual. The late actor certainly gets the best of the – even by Furious standards – over-the-top action sequences and it’s hard to think of a better stunt than an early show-stopper in which he clambers out of a teetering bus in the Caucasus. Walker also stars in Furious 7 ’s piece de resistance set in Abu Dhabi, when a one-of-a-kind luxury vehicle is driven out of one of the Ethiad tower’s penthouses through the window , sails into a neighbouring skyscraper, and, yes, through that and on to a third, without even touching the ground. As ever, Furious does not acknowledge the word ‘excessive’.

The film’s plot is both skimpy and unnecessarily complicated, all at the same time. By now, everyone in this effortlessly multi-ethnic cast has a complicated back-story, and previous Furious plot-strands are acknowledged. Han is dead. Letty (Rodriguez) is still suffering from amnesia, giving her relationship with Dom (Vin Diesel) a little frisson, if not quite credibility. Brian O’Connor (Walker) is trying his hand at being a domesticated father with wife Mia (Jordana Brewster). Crashing into this comes Statham as Deckard Shaw, brother of Furious 6’s vanquished hard-guy (Luke Evans), now hanging on to his life in a hospital bed in London. Deckard vows to avenge his brother, and is next seen in Los Angeles threatening the existence of the ridiculously muscular DSS agent Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson), and vowing to take out Dom’s entire crew.

Elsewhere, there’s a mysterious agent called Mr Nobody (Kurt Russell), who promises Dom access to a new surveillance programme called God’s Eye, if he goes to Azerbaijan and rescues its inventor (British actress Nathalie Emmanuel) from the evil clutches of a seemingly-random terrorist played by Djimon Hounsow. Everywhere they go, however, they’re followed by Jason Statham, looking and sounding like a Mitchell brother from British TV soap EastEnders. It doesn’t make too much sense, but, of course, the entire plot of Furious 7 is an excuse for the next crazy car chase, and that’s why the franchise’s die-hard fans love it so.

Four editors worked on Fast and Furious 7 , possibly as a result of Paul Walker’s death, and the cutting is incredibly fast-paced throughout, working up to a crescendo. This frenetic pace doesn’t always aid the logic of a sequence, and it can be easy for the viewer to lose perspective, particularly in the film’s lengthy climax .

With a new production designer on board (Bill Brzeski) , Fast And Furious 7 delivers on its late-series promise of exotic locations, from London (with scant exteriors) to Los Angeles, Azerbaijan and Abu Dhabi, where, surprisingly, Wan still manages to pack his sequences with the bare bottoms of bikini-clad babes. Quite an achievement indeed, although one wonders whether they’ll survive the Emirates airline cut

Production companies: Original Film, One Race Films

Contact: Universal

Producers: Neal Moritz, Vin Diesel, Michael Fottrell

Executive producers: Samantha Vincent, Amanda Lewis, Chris Morgan

Screenplay: Chris Morgan

Cinematography: Stephen F Windon, Marc Spicer

Editors: Leigh Folsom Boyd, Dylan Highsmith, Kirk M Morri, Christian Wagner

Production designer: Bill Brzeski

Second unit director/stunt co-ordinator, Spiro Razatos

Music: Bryan Tyler

Main cast: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jason Statham, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Kurt Russell, Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges, Dwayne Johnson, Elsa Pataky, Tyrese Gibson, Luke Evans, Djimon Hounslow, Nathalie Emmanuel

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By Peter Travers

Peter Travers

It probably seems lame to call Furious 7 a family film. But what the fuck, it is — the family being the audiences that have stuck with this car-porn franchise, thick and thin, since the first chapter, in 2001. And the family of actors and crew who have gathered here to pay tribute to one of their own.

That would be Paul Walker , who plays Brian O’Connor, the undercover cop who infiltrated an outlaw gang of East L.A. street racers, run by Dominic Toretto ( Vin Diesel ), and stayed to form a bond. Walker, 40, died in a high-speed car crash on November 30th, 2013, in the passenger seat of a 2005 Porsche Carrera GT that hit trees and a concrete lamppost.

With only half of Walker’s scenes finished at the time of his tragic death, it took an act of will to decide the fate of Furious 7. After taking time to grieve, Walker’s brothers, Caleb and Cody, stepped up to fill in for scenes that digital grafting couldn’t cover. Tough job. It had to look seamless. And it pretty much does.

Furious 7 is the best F&F by far, two hours of pure pow fueled by dedication and passionate heart. This one sticks with you. The usual flaws — plot bumps, muscle acting, tweet-length dialogue — fade in the face of the camaraderie on and off screen. Finishing the film in Walker’s honor clearly brought out the best in everyone. It’s bittersweet seeing Walker in action again. But it’s also a kick to watch him take the wheel or hang off a bus in Azerbaijan that happens to be hanging off a cliff. He feels at home.

Home, of course, is where Furious 7 starts. Back in L.A., Brian finally looks uncomfortable with a moving vehicle. That’s because it’s a suburban minivan he uses to pick up his girl, Mia (the ever- stellar Jordana Brewster), and their infant son. Mia tells her brother Dom she loves having her family reconnected. But she admits that Brian “misses the bullets.”

That’s the cue to bust loose for horror director James Wan ( Saw , The Conjuring , Insidious ), expertly taking over the driver’s seat from four-time F&F honcho Justin Lin. Serenity vanishes when Dom’s house is blown up by Deckard, played with menacing glee by Jason Statham. In no time, Brian, Dom, his amnesiac love Letty (Michele Rodriguez is killer), and their tech-wiz comic cohorts, Tej ( Ludacris ) and Roman (Tyrese Gibson), are on the road to global vengeance. Hell, that bastard Deckard has put FBI agent Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) in the hospital.

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Newbies to the cast include a welcome Kurt Russell as covert government operative Mr. Nobody, who wants the F&F crew to enter the terrorist lair of Mose Jakande (Djimon Hounsou) and snatch Ramsey (Nathalie Emmanuel), a computer hacker who’s invented a software program called God’s Eye that can track anyone anywhere via the simplest digital devices. In exchange, they can use God’s Eye to find Deckard.

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Got that? Doesn’t matter. Chris Morgan’s chronology-jumping, logic-defying plot doesn’t matter a damn next to the breathtaking stunts and action. There’s a hell of a head-butting fight between Diesel and Statham and a knockout scene of buckled-in drivers being parachuted onto a mountainside. And you won’t believe your eyes as Dom drives a priceless Hypersport out of the 80th-floor window of an Abu Dhabi skyscraper and into another. Brian’s words echo in his ears: “Cars can’t fly, Dom, cars can’t fly.”

Well, they do here. The filmmakers have figured out an ingenious and graceful way to give Brian a happy ending of sorts. If you’ve given your heart to Walker and the F&F crew, you can’t help but well up. If you believe there’s no crying in car racing, take a star off my rating. But my guess is that if God’s Eye is tracking Walker somewhere, he’ll be smiling.

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Fast & Furious 7 Review

03 Apr 2015

137 minutes

Fast & Furious 7

The Fast & Furious franchise has gone full Toon Town. What began six films ago as Point Break with pimped-out rims has since become the world’s most expensive Road Runner skit — essentially The Rock hitting Jason Statham over the head with an anvil while Vin Diesel sticks his finger in a light socket. Horror maestro James Wan (standing in for series stalwart Justin Lin) has embraced the saga’s unreserved silliness wholeheartedly, shaking the bottle, popping the cork and letting it all burst forth in a fizzing, frothy fountain of swollen muscles and polished chrome.

The film opens with Statham’s salty killer Deckard Shaw growling “bollocks” at his ailing brother’s bedside. We pull back to see that he’s slaughtered two dozen SWAT members and shot up half the hospital just to deliver a ‘get well soon’ in person. Segue to an outrageous, cock-measuring punch-up with The Rock, and Wan has set the tone for the entire movie. To appraise the plot in too much detail would rather miss the point. Suffice it to say this is senseless bobbins from top to bottom and makes not one lick of sense if regarded with anything approaching logical scrutiny. As with the previous instalment, Diesel’s ragtag band of street-racing ragamuffins have somehow graduated from small-time crooks to a globe-trotting Special Forces outfit — a kind of wifebeater-sporting IMF with a throaty V8 stuffed down its trousers.

They flit from London to LA via Abu Dhabi and Azerbaijan in search of mysterious device ‘the God’s Eye’, which will help them track down Shaw — a premise somewhat undermined by the fact that Shaw himself is in hot pursuit, dropping in on every location they visit like a bestubbled T-1000. But of course, none of that really matters when you’re watching a live-action Looney Tune in which people jump supercars between high-rises and pull doughnuts on the edge of cliffs. This boasts set-pieces that might well be the franchise’s most demented yet (which is saying something after 5’s safe-dragging cars and Diesel’s cross-carriageway tank flight in 6). Paul Walker runs the length of a bus roof as it slides off a cliff, Diesel flings his ride at a helicopter and the entire team parachute out of a plane in their cars . Furious 7, as it’s known Stateside, exalts in wanton carnage, giddily surpassing Michael Bay levels of destruction by the story’s end.

While The Rock continues to gnaw on the lion’s share of both lines and laughs (muscle-flexing his way out of an arm cast is a particular joy to behold), F&F7 is very much Diesel’s film. Meat-sandwich Dom is the unlikely source of both exposition and emotion here, and though the amnesia subplot with Michelle Rodriguez’ Letty is risible (one chapel-based flashback will make you laugh out loud), he fills the role admirably. Sadly, it comes by way of necessity as Paul Walker’s death mid-shoot required substantial changes to the script. To the credit of all involved, the joins are largely seamless. Walker’s brothers, Caleb and Cody, stand in for the actor in a few long shots and CG trickery competently fudges the close-ups. It does add a slightly sombre note to an otherwise upbeat film, but the care with which the issue is handled forms a genuinely moving tribute to the actor, Toretto’s usual guff about “family” striking a chord that it never has before.

Fast & Furious is Hollywood’s most ludicrous (and Ludacris) franchise by a car-length, and 7, which feels like a trolley dash in a napalm factory, is the most gonzo instalment yet. But despite dialogue that makes The Expendables sound like Shakespeare and action to make even Wile E. Coyote cock a disbelieving eyebrow, this is a gleeful, exuberant romp of a movie. Not bad, then. Just drawn that way.

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Furious 7 review: bigger, crazier, and kind of a mess

James wan's first fast movie gets off to a rough start.

By Chris Ziegler
on April 2, 2015 12:29 pm

My love for the Fast & Furious franchise cannot be contained. It knows no bounds. It is an unstoppable, almost supernatural force that has led me to marathon the entire six-movie set more times than I can count. For God’s sake, I co-host a dedicated Fast & Furious podcast.

And here’s the thing: I don’t think I’m alone. Granted, my obsession may run a little deeper than it does for most, but the progenitor of this series is now 14 years old; today, there are teenagers who have quite literally grown up with Dom, Brian, and the gang. Obviously, at its most basic level, each new Fast film is a high-budget ode to street racing and explosions — but this has also now become a telenovela for the movie-going set. Once every year or two, we check in on the Torettos, the O’Conners, and their perfect little slice of LA. We want to know how they’re doing. Mia’s baby must be getting big now!

The downside to this kind of mad devotion to Vin Diesel’s kingdom of steel and testosterone, of course, is that disappointment is a substantial and ever-present risk. And never has anticipation for a Fast & Furious film been greater — both for me personally and for the movie-going population at large — than it has ahead of the release of Furious 7 . There’s certainly some morbid fascination around the tragic mid-filming death of Paul Walker and how his central character of Brian O’Conner would be handled, but there’s also the simple reality that this is a Fast & Furious joint. They always get bigger, crazier, more deliciously absurd. Considering the precedents set by Fast Five and Fast & Furious 6 , it’s a tough benchmark to beat.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Furious 7 picks up after the events of Tokyo Drift , tracking the crew’s search for vengeance after the death of one of their own — Han — at the hands of Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham). Deckard, in turn, is the brother of Fast 6 ’s fallen bad guy Owen Shaw. Basically, everyone wants to kill everyone else.

No one would've pegged the making of Furious 7 as an easy task

But it’s a mess from the start. Clearly, no one would’ve pegged the making of Furious 7 as an easy task after Walker’s death, and there was also a delicate dance needed to untangle the series’ 1-2-4-5-6-3-7 chronology. Indeed, there are moments where director James Wan — a newcomer to the franchise whose prior credits are almost exclusively horror films — seems to have been palpably buried by the enormity of the task that lie before him. The entire first third of the movie almost continuously trips over itself, as Wan and the writers seemed hell-bent on setting up (and, in some cases, glossing over) a laundry list of relatively minor plot points and callbacks, perhaps in an overwrought attempt to tie off storylines haphazardly and with minimal effort — and to satisfy fanatics like me. We go on a whirlwind tour of moments in Fast lore past and present, visiting (the still unfortunately named) Race Wars for a fleeting instant and the streets of Tokyo Drift for another. It’s as if Wan’s mission was to treat every character and every scene from previous films as a touchstone to be collected in Furious 7 ’s vast satchel.

The grab bag of bit characters includes Hector, Elena, Twinkie, Sean, and even Owen Shaw, none of whom really contribute anything — they’re just there. (Hector’s only purpose, for instance, is to be punched by Michelle Rodriguez’s Letty.) And if none of those names mean anything to you, God help you: I think Furious 7 is the first film in the series that makes no effort to be atomically approachable. You have to know the backstory for it to make any sense, full stop. If you’re just there for the sweet action sequences, sure, I hear you — but any attempt to untangle the countless relationships that have developed over the course of six previous movies without having seen them recently enough to remember them will fail.

I sound ungrateful, but believe me: I appreciate the thought behind Wan’s effort to cover all of this nostalgic ground in a little over two hours. It just doesn’t work; it doesn’t cohere; I felt strangely disengaged with these characters that I had learned to love over a decade and a half. I just wanted something to sink my teeth into, but Wan rarely gives the viewer an opportunity.

And in what little time we have for actual character development, we get practically none. Ramsey, a conveniently attractive computer hacker and literal caged damsel-in-distress , serves little function but to enforce tropes and incite an array of cringeworthy lines and camera angles. Yet she was in the movie long enough that it feels odd to know so little about her.

The movie does eventually settle into a series of awesome action sequences

Kurt Russell’s "Mr. Nobody" comes and goes with even less fanfare; the character basically functions as a narrator to explain what’s going to go down in the next action sequence. (My colleague Ross Miller, seated next to me, described him as a " Call of Duty menu system.") And speaking of action sequences, Furious 7 does eventually settle into a series of them — protracted and higher-budget than ever — which is really what you paid your $20 or whatever to see. This is the bread and butter not just of this film, but of the entire series, especially since the heady post- Tokyo Drift days. Key moments of each of these sequences were spoiled by trailers, but there’s still enough additional meat in the movie to get you riled up, possibly throwing a fist in the air on occasion and screaming "hell yes" with a giant smile across your face. I’m not saying that’s what I did, just that you may feel compelled to do that, and you should feel okay about it.

And maybe that’s what Furious 7 needed more of: as much as I liked seeing Hector for nostalgia’s sake, I didn’t need to see him for a few fleeting seconds in a Race Wars scene barely a few minutes long. Perhaps I was spoiled by the adrenaline-soaked perfection of 5 and 6 , where the action never stopped, we got precisely the correct amount of touchy-feely team interaction, and we didn’t care that runways were 30 miles long because we were young and innocent and everything was perfect with the world.

It’s probably no coincidence that the last four films were all directed by Justin Lin, whose deft touch for the franchise was sorely missed here. Lin’s unapologetic love for over-the-top explosions was just as honed as Wan’s, but he did a far better job taking our hands and leading us through each film, building characters and relationships along the way. (And his hype-building post-credit scenes were legendary. Furious 7 has none.)

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As for the handling of Walker’s death, without spoiling it, I’ll only say that it left me as unsatisfied as most of Furious 7 ’s mindless vignettes. The strategy seemed strangely rushed and poorly thought-out, considering the additional production time that was allotted to rewrite the script. In the inevitable Fast 8 — the screenwriters will still have a bit more work to do to fully explain O’Conner’s (and, in all likelihood, Mia’s) absence.

It’s entirely possible, of course, that my fandom has simply blinded me to Furious 7 ’s greatness. The action sequences — particularly Abu Dhabi, with the supercar leaping between buildings — are legitimately phenomenal, and the scenes filmed after Walker’s passing, in which his brothers stepped in for him , were never distracting or even noticeable without looking closely. Maybe I’m missing something. The early reviews are extremely positive, and Rotten Tomatoes is closing in on 90 percent. Maybe my expectations were unrealistic; maybe nothing short of a four-hour marathon with 45 minutes of heart-pounding Race Wars would’ve fit my bill.

See it on opening weekend when the theater is thick with hype

And if Furious 7 deserves credit for one thing, it’s closing (or at least trying to close) some doors from the past that make way for new ones to be opened. Vin Diesel says that the next movie will be set in New York, a marked departure from the series’ deep LA roots. And Lucas Black ( Tokyo Drift ’s Sean Boswell) has been rumored to return in 8 and beyond ; maybe he can step up and start to fill the huge hole left by Paul Walker.

Either way, I encourage action movie buffs and diehard Fast fanatics alike to see this one, preferably on opening weekend when the theater is thick with hype. (There’s no other franchise where clapping and screaming throughout the movie is as utterly appropriate.) I need people to talk about it with, after all.

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Furious 7 review

The pinnacle of the series, furious 7 gives walker the last ride he deserved.

“Promise me, Brian. No more funerals.”

It’s impossible to hear these heartbroken words from Roman Pearce, spoken at Han Seoul-Oh’s funeral, and not immediately think of the great tragedy surrounding Furious 7 : Paul Walker’s death.

It’s everywhere you look in the seventh installment in the Fast and Furious franchise. Every moment fast-racing ex-cop Brian O’Connor plunges into a hail of gunfire, every time he steps behind the wheel of a car, every second he spends in a graveyard — every single scene he’s in could be his very last… and eventually, one of them is.

In a very real way, Furious 7 is a ghost story. But not all ghost stories are nightmares. Some ghost stories have happy endings. Fewer ghost stories feature two men slugging each other with wrenches and car shrapnel, or a third man shooting a helicopter out of the sky with a mini gun, or an extraordinarily rare race car plowing and jumping through three Abu Dhabi skyscrapers — but this one does. Which is to say, yes, there’s an unavoidable amount of sadness and sentiment here in Furious 7 , but it only serves to enhance the kind of extreme action these films pull off unlike anyone else in the business.

If Deckard’s unbelievable takedown of his brother’s top-level security doesn’t make his capabilities clear, his fistfight against Diplomatic Security Service agent Luke Hobbs does the job. In what’s easily the greatest fight scene since Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson came to blows in Fast Five , we now have Johnson versus Statham within the first twenty minutes of Furious 7 , an epic beat-down involving couches, tables, light fixtures, glass shards, guns, and a whole lot of fists applied directly to the face. It’s the kind of scene action nerds dream about seeing, and almost impossible to believe in how much it lives up to the potential.

Who wins the brawl, aside from the audience? No spoilers here, but the match’s winner doesn’t matter nearly as much as the consequences. After introducing himself to Hobbs, Deckard walks away with crucial information about the team of car-racing criminals responsible for his brother’s weakened state, leading to the moment that Fast and Furious fans have dreaded ever since Tokyo Drift : Han’s death.

It’s the kind of scene action nerds dream about seeing, and almost impossible to believe in how much it lives up to the potential.

There’s no walking back what happened to Han. There’s no side-stepping the inevitability that one of the greatest, coolest characters in the entire series must meet his maker. Furious 7 leans directly into Han’s death and uses it as the launchpad for everything that comes next, with Team Toretto joining forces once more, Avengers-style, to avenge their fallen comrade. Just as Walker’s real-life fate lurks over everything in Furious 7 , so too does Han’s in-movie ghost haunt his still-living comrades; they don’t want to end up in the ground like Han, but that’s exactly where they want to put his killer.

Easier said than done. Even though Team Toretto has pulled off impossible missions and survived against all odds, they’re up against their biggest hurdle yet. If I haven’t made it clear already, Deckard Shaw is the most formidable foe we’ve ever seen in a Fast and Furious movie. His brother Owen relied upon a team of highly-trained soldiers to get the job done — expendable and replaceable soldiers, sure, but a small army all the same. Deckard needs no such thing. He’s more than capable of getting his mission accomplished all on his onesies. In fact, he prefers it. Statham plays Deckard with all the old-school, no-B.S. ferocity and brutality he brings to his various action heroes, which makes him all the more menacing when he’s directing that ferocity and brutality at people we love.

With Statham in the mix, Furious 7 steps the action up to his level. Looking past the Statham-Johnson fistfight, Furious 7 features some of the craziest set pieces in the entire series, from cars parachuting out of planes and driving straight off cliffs with no real regard for personal safety, to our heroes racing around Los Angeles while evading helicopters armed with heavy duty machine-guns. And while these kinds of exhilarating, unrivaled action scenes certainly continue the franchise’s trend of veering away from its simpler car-racing roots, Furious 7 manages to squeeze an old-school race or two into the mix, in one particularly clever wink and nod to The Fast and the Furious .

In other words, Furious 7 strikes the perfect balance between what made these movies successful in the first place, and what they’ve become: Huge money-making blockbusters with ridiculous action sequences unlike anything else out there. And it doesn’t come at the expense of the huge heart that keeps these films beating along almost 15 years since the original, either. Han’s funeral, for one, is one of the most moving scenes in the entire series. Dom and Letty’s continued struggle over her inability to remember life before her Fast & Furious accident plays a big part here, as well.

And then there’s everything with Walker. When we first see Brian in Furious 7 , he’s a long way from the crustless tunafish sandwich days of Toretto’s Market & Cafe, but even further from the airplane-crashing antics of Fast & Furious 6 . The white picket fences of domestic life, alluring as they sound, don’t appeal to him nearly as much as the days of thunder. “He misses the bullets,” Mia tells Dom at one point, and it shows; as soon as Brian gets to work on tracking down Deckard, it’s like he’s never been happier, with that big, open-mouthed Paul Walker grin on his face at nearly every turn, even the deadliest ones.

Diesel proves himself more than capable of leading the franchise forward, in a world without Walker and O’Connor.

It’s great to see both Walker and O’Connor so energized throughout Furious 7 , even if it’s often tough to watch, knowing that the actor is no longer with us. But his final film in the Fast and Furious franchise, and his final film period, is a testament to how much Walker loved this world, and how much his energy mattered in keeping the series afloat. Diesel’s Dom shoulders most of the storytelling burden in Furious 7 , both because the story demands it and because Walker hadn’t finished all of his scenes before his death, necessitating some changes to the script. Through that, Diesel proves himself more than capable of leading the franchise forward, in a world without Walker and O’Connor. Of course, it’s not a world that anyone wants to live in. But Furious 7 manages to make the best out of a terrible situation, sending the beloved actor and character off into the sunset with the dignity, respect and warmth he deserves.

Granted, my time with the Fast and Furious films has been brief; I binge-watched the entire series for the very first time over the course of a week. With that said, having crammed Dom and Brian’s adventures over such a short period of time, I feel confident in calling Furious 7 the best of the series. It features the best action to date, the best villain to date, and the most emotional story to date, fueled by Walker’s final ride as Brian O’Connor. It’s not the end of the franchise, but it’s certainly the end of an era — and man, what an ending it is.

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‘Furious 7’ (2015) Movie Review

By Brad Brevet

What happens when our blockbusters become wholly self aware? The reality of the cinematic singularity has been alive and well for some time now with Marvel taking the bull by the horns with its Cinematic Universe of films and now the Fast & Furious franchise has fully consumed itself. The difference being, I guess, every installment in the Fast franchise has become The Avengers , it’s a superhero team-up rather than settling for lackluster individual episodes in-between. Like ’em or not, the Fast movies are just that, they’re movies, not installments or episodes. They can be hit and miss and, in the case of Furious 7 , are now bumping up against becoming more “disaster porn” than ever before as Los Angeles is blown to bits and skyscrapers in Abu Dhabi (not to mention ancient artifacts) are vandalized by a $3.4 million sports car. But hey, you have to ratchet up the stakes somehow… right?

I guess after what is now seven movies in 15 years the opinion is there are only so many practical things you can do with a car in a movie and keep it exciting, though that isn’t to say Furious 7 is only unrealistic stunts featuring cars “jumping” from skyscraper to skyscraper. In fact, they actually threw cars out of an airplane in this movie and drove them down a mountain side. They even pull off a tandem, 360-degree spin that actually looks cooler in the behind-the-scenes featurettes than it does in the movie, because in the behind-the-scenes video they aren’t faking an unbelievable, slo-mo passenger hand-off in the middle of the move. Throw in a space-age militarized attack drone and you’re caught somewhere in a blockbuster paradox, a realm this movie is wholly aware of as Tyrese Gibson , back playing Roman Pearce, consistently reminds us.

What started out as a street-racing franchise has become a superhero movie where Ludacris now has martial arts skills and Paul Walker can go toe-to-toe with Tony Jaa ( Ong Bak ). Jason Statham joins the plotline as Deckard Shaw, the brother of Fast Six villain Owen Shaw ( Luke Evans ), setting out to avenge his brother, and there’s an out-of-left-field storyline involving a surveillance program designed by a kidnapped hacker played by Nathalie Emmanuel . Add Kurt Russell as a secret American operative to the mix and you have the latest in the globe-trotting franchise.

The cast, in fact, I love, but the biggest mistake this film makes is the early benching of Hobbs ( Dwayne Johnson ) after an early dust-up with Deckard Shaw sends him to the hospital. Hobbs does eventually find his way back into the film (toting a Gating gun by the way), but not until late in the game and just like Baby, nobody should put The Rock in the corner. I was also a bit upset Tony Jaa didn’t get a little more to do, but hopefully Hollywood will find a way to bring him deeper into the fold in the future as he has a whole lot more to offer than is seen here.

Then we come to Paul Walker . I have no idea what scenes were and were not completed before his tragic death halted production just over midway through, but it’s something you’re constantly aware of. Hell, there’s a funeral scene in which the phrase “no more funerals” is uttered and Walker’s Brian O’Connor says, “Just one more.” His spirit looms over the film, not as a black cloud, but more as a mournful celebration that keeps his spirit alive, ending in a somber coda once the mayhem has ended. In fact, whether it was planned or not in the aftermath of his passing, Furious 7 almost plays as a feature length tribute to Walker and his character, or perhaps that’s just how I viewed it as someone that has watched these movies too many times over the past several years with 2 Fast 2 Furious quite possibly being my favorite. (By the way, what’s the deal with not bringing Eva Mendes back and isn’t Carter Verone ( Cole Hauser ) out of jail yet?)

Kudos to director James Wan whose made a name for himself in the horror genre beginning with the Saw films and most recently the Insidious franchise and The Conjuring . Wan shows he can handle something of this size and while Furious 7 does feel like it runs 15-20 minutes longer than it actually does (as have all of these films as of late), the film’s climax, which features no fewer than three set pieces taking place at once, plays quite well, bouncing from one moment to the next, keeping things moving at a quick clip.

However, the film is at its best when it’s more focused on one action piece at a time and at its worst when trying to cram in some truly terrible dialogue, mostly about family. I don’t know when this franchise felt it became more than blockbuster schlock, but they really need to tone down the self-seriousness. The bits between Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez are almost cringe-worthy in not only how poorly the scenes are written, but how unnecessary they are.

Furious 7 keeps the insanity of the franchise alive and has fully embraced that insanity to the point it almost stops to make sure we’re aware of it. I could do with a little less self-awareness in the future, but this is a series I tend to cut a little more slack than I do others. What can I say? I like the characters and I appreciate the fact each movie is presented as a singular movie with a beginning, middle and end. While there may be more to the story to be told in future films, you walk away feeling as if an effort was made to give the audience its money’s worth in both story and spectacle, the latter obviously being the top priority nowadays, but only because they earned it along the way.

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Frequent, outrageous, over-the-top action sequences. Dead bodies. Bombs, grenade

Dozens of women are shown in revealing bikinis. Some strong innuendo.

One use of "f--k," and more frequent use of other words, including "s--t," "sumb

Corona beer is shown and mentioned more than once. Lots of car brands.

A character drinks and talks about his favorite Belgian beer. Another character

Any Positive Content?

More so than in the previous movies, the characters swear by their "family" bond

Though they've turned into a team of near-superheroes, these guys are still outl

Violence & Scariness

Frequent, outrageous, over-the-top action sequences. Dead bodies. Bombs, grenades, and explosions. Constant car chases and crashes. Fighting with fists and blunt instruments. Bullets fired. Martial arts fighting. Car skewered with tree trunk. Cars falling from cliffs.

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One use of "f--k," and more frequent use of other words, including "s--t," "sumbitch," "bitches," "goddamn," "damn," etc.

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Positive Messages

More so than in the previous movies, the characters swear by their "family" bonds and vow to protect each other. But their brand of "teamwork" usually involves splitting up (and tons of consequence-free destruction). One character leaves his wife and son behind to help out, but eventually learns that his true place is with them.

Positive Role Models

Though they've turned into a team of near-superheroes, these guys are still outlaws who cause endless destruction without any consequences. Michelle Rodriguez and Nathalie Emmanuel are strong, smart female role models, even though the movie does objectify them physically. No women whose bodies aren't unrealistically bikini-ready are included in the movie.

Parents need to know that Furious 7 is the seventh movie in the massively successful and increasingly popular Fast & Furious franchise. Like the others, it has tons of over-the-top, outrageous action violence (with the biggest stunts ever for the franchise), including fighting with fists and weapons, car chases/crashes, explosions, gunfire, and character deaths. Women are viewed as objects, frequently appearing in bikinis (women with normal/realistic body types don't appear) -- but the central female characters are also strong and smart. Language isn't constant but does include uses of "s--t," "bitch" and one "f--k." Star Paul Walker died during production; his scenes were completed with digital magic and stand-ins. The movie has more focus than earlier installments on the meaning of family, but characters still don't face any consequences for their violent, destructive actions. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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In FURIOUS 7, Deckard Shaw ( Jason Statham ) visits his brother, Owen -- the defeated villain from Fast & Furious 6 -- in the hospital, vowing revenge against the intrepid team of main characters. Shaw attacks, succeeding in killing one team member. The rest -- Dom Toretto ( Vin Diesel ), Brian ( Paul Walker ), Letty ( Michelle Rodriguez ), Roman ( Tyrese Gibson ), and Tej ( Chris "Ludacris" Bridges ) -- rally together, while Hobbes ( Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson ) lies in the hospital with two broken limbs. Meanwhile, a mysterious secret agent ( Kurt Russell ) offers the team help in getting Shaw, but only if they'll rescue an important kidnapped hacker, Ramsey ( Nathalie Emmanuel ). On top of everything else, this puts yet another bad guy ( Djimon Hounsou ) on their trail.

Is It Any Good?

Talented horror director James Wan takes over the Fast & Furious franchise helm and brings a definite freshness to it in the seventh installment. The action scenes have more gleeful energy and absurd humor, and there are more showstoppers than ever before. Additionally, the characters are less about machismo and more about "family" bonding. This element is likely due to Walker's untimely death; his presence lends the movie an elegiac tone. (With the aid of digital magic, Walker's brothers stood in for the actor's uncompleted scenes.)

All that said, Furious 7 keeps up the series' unfortunate take on women as objects; no female appears who doesn't look good in a bikini. It's also the longest movie in the series so far, and it can't keep up the pace for two-plus hours. The energy eventually flags, and the explosions grow tiresome -- which is too bad, since the blocky, chunky writing could easily have been trimmed. But there's a spectacular 90-minute action movie hidden somewhere within...

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Movie Details

In theaters : April 3, 2015
On DVD or streaming : September 15, 2015
Cast : Vin Diesel , Paul Walker , Michelle Rodriguez
Director : James Wan
Inclusion Information : Asian directors, Multiracial actors, Female actors, Latino actors
Studio : Universal Pictures
Genre : Action/Adventure
Topics : Cars and Trucks
Run time : 137 minutes
MPAA rating : PG-13
MPAA explanation : prolonged frenetic sequences of violence, action and mayhem, suggestive content and brief strong language
Last updated : February 8, 2024

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April 3, 2015
Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto; Paul Walker as Brian O'Conner; Jason Statham as Deckard Shaw; Michelle Rodriguez as Letty; Ludacris as Tej; Dwayne Johnson as Hobbs; Kurt Russell as Mr. Nobody; Nathalie Emmanuel as Ramsey

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September 15, 2015

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Movie Review

As this seventh story starts, Dominic Toretto and his makeshift family of hotshot hot rodders and heavy-fisted rumblers are all focused on personal pursuits. Former undercover cop Brian, for instance, is gearing up to be a carpool dad and attentive hubby. And Dom’s love interest, Letty, is still trying to regain her memories—lost in a terrible accident. But all those endeavors are about to be tossed into the backseat for a while.

There’s a new high-beam threat on the horizon, you see. A former British special forces guy named Deckard Shaw is grinding his teeth, flexing his muscles and putting the pedal to the metal in an attempt to get revenge for his hospitalized brother, Owen (a past franchise baddie).

This tenacious Terminator-like terrorizer has already killed Japanese crewmember Han, hospitalized the über-muscled cop Hobbs and blown up Dom’s home. It doesn’t look like he’ll stop until the whole crew is broken to bits—one bone and one axel at a time. And the problem is, this seasoned killer is a slippery sort. Just finding out what direction he’s driving in is nearly impossible.

Paging Mr. Nobody to the starting line.

This senior agent from some unnamed government agency has a job for Dom and a special reward up his sleeve. There’s this brilliant cutting-edge surveillance program, he says, that can pinpoint anybody in the world in a matter of minutes. All Dom and his talented team have to do is retrieve it and its hacker-creator from the clutches of a terrorist-mercenary.

Of course, that job’ll likely entail parachuting a group of cars into the Caucasus Mountains from the back of a cargo plane, hijacking a heavily armored moving prison, plummeting off sheer mountain cliffs, stealing a supercar out of a skyscraper in Abu Dhabi, battling a missile-bristling drone, and coming out on top after scores of heated car chases, enormous explosions and up-close-and-personal beatdowns.

In other words, it’ll just be another day in the office for Dom and his crew.

Positive Elements

The one thing Dom and his friends have going for them—when they’re not ramrodding around the world in a maniacal frenzy—is the fact that they all sincerely care for one another. And they revere the concept of family.

Dom, in fact, repeatedly states that he doesn’t have friends , it’s his family he’s fighting for. Brian says his new suburban life has him “missing bullets,” but all his pals agree that his blossoming family is a beautiful thing to witness and be near. And though Hobbs isn’t always running in the same circles as Dom and his crew, we see that his relationship with his young daughter is very valuable to him. We watch a flashback scene that shows us Dom’s respect and desire for marriage and his love for Letty.

Hobbs throws himself between an explosion and a fellow officer, ultimately getting blown out a window and sustaining a number of broken bones … but saving his friend’s life.

Spiritual Elements

Dom picks up a cross out of the effects of a fallen comrade and wears it. We also see him using it as a substitute for a ring in a marriage ceremony. He crosses himself at a funeral. The impressive surveillance program Mr. Nobody seeks is called “God’s Eye.”

Sexual & Romantic Content

It seems that well-waxed, high-revving hot rods and similarly described bikini girls are an expected pairing in all F&F pics. In four or five different scenes the camera languidly examines the long tanned legs, exaggerated cleavage and flexing glutei maximi of scores of attractive women dressed in barely there outfits.

When the pretty hacker Ramsey hits the beach, two male members of Dom’s crew (and the camera) closely ogle her jiggling bust and talk of their desire for her. Dom and Letty kiss, as do Brian and his wife.

Violent Content

The fast and furious and frequent pummelings on display here are often ludicrously cartoonish. A battered and hospitalized Hobbs, for instance, rises from his sick bed at one point, muscularly cracks open his arm cast and pops his bones back in place while muttering, “Time to go to work.”

Dom and Brian drive a supercharged million-dollar speedster out the window of an Abu Dhabi skyscraper, smashing down from one tower to the next. And Dom and Shaw play a game of high-speed chicken, slamming their hurtling cars head-on into each other. They then proceed to both crawl out of the wreckage unscathed, except, of course, for the need to flex their shoulders and crack their necks. And Dom even uses his speeding car as something of a surface-to-bad-guy-in-the-helicopter missile, blowing the airborne enemy out of the sky.

Ultimately, a Jay Leno-size collection of cars and trucks (including police vehicles) are smashed, run off the road at high speeds, impaled by splintered trees and generally blown to smithereens by fierce gunfire, armor-piercing artillery, missiles and other explosives. Buildings are likewise ripped and smashed.

When Letty and a female bodyguard (played by UFC title-holder Ronda Rousey) face off, the full-on jaw punches and body throws look savagely painful. The guys—including Hobbs, Brian, Dom and Shaw—all meet in their own wince-worthy, up-close battles with similar head-pounding, glass-smashing, pipe-swinging and bone-breaking effects. All that flesh flailing may be superhero-like in its lack of realistic gore, but it’s gritty and torturous looking nonetheless.

Crude or Profane Language

A post-battle, partially muffled f-word. Close to 15 s-words. Uses of “h—,” “a–,” “b–ch” and “b–tard” range from a couple to a dozen. God’s name is combined with “d–n” five or six times.

Drug & Alcohol Content

Several party and racing scenes boast lots of beer, champagne and hard liquor. Dom drinks beer with Mr. Nobody. After breaking free of his cast, Hobbs pops prescription painkillers to, you know, just take the edge off a bit.

Other Noteworthy Elements

Crude, testosterone-fueled comments drive the conversation from time to time. Hobbs, for instance, snarls out the line, “He’s gonna wish his momma had kept her legs crossed,” at one angry juncture. And it’s worth noting again that martial arts-influenced brawls, some incredibly dangerous vehicular stunts, and a total disregard for law and order are all glorified throughout the pic.

A week or so before its release, Fast & Furious franchise mainstay Vin Diesel predicted that Furious 7 would be in serious contention for Best Picture at the Oscars next year. And the reviewing press at large gave him a grin and a sardonic “You bet, bud!” in reply.

Pretty much everybody knows what to expect from these nitrous oxide-laced pics by now: big and bold shots of twisted metal and torn-up asphalt merged with flexing muscles and bikini-wrapped bottoms, all packaged in 4th of July-level pyrotechnics and accompanied by the eardrum-pounding screams of overtaxed car engines. Great acting? Well, you really don’t need much of that at this party! A compelling story? Hey, isn’t the flash and bang interesting enough for ya?

The only real variation this time around is the fact that series co-star Paul Walker died in a tragic off-set car accident mid-way through the shoot. And so filmmakers had to digitally reshape the movie a bit, ending things with a sentimental retrospective to the actor and his well-liked character.

Such a lump-in-the-throat send-off may not move you to think of prestigious acting awards, but it does, perhaps inadvertently, push beyond the typical F&F fantasy. For Walker’s demise emphasizes that in the real world a cavalier attitude about racing too fast and drifting too furiously generally ends in grief. And no amount of stardom or big box-office horsepower can completely swerve around that.

After spending more than two decades touring, directing, writing and producing for Christian theater and radio (most recently for Adventures in Odyssey, which he still contributes to), Bob joined the Plugged In staff to help us focus more heavily on video games. He is also one of our primary movie reviewers.

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Although the main plot centers around Dominic Toretto and his crew, what makes Furious 7 particularly special for me is its heartfelt tribute to Paul Walker, whose untimely passing added a layer of poignancy to the franchise. The final scenes, plus Wiz Khalifa's 'See You Again,' are a touching farewell that almost brought me to tears. It's a beautifully crafted goodbye that honors Walker's legacy.

Alongside Tokyo Drift as my favorite in the Fast Franchise. 7 has some remarkable set pieces expertly directed by James Wan. The best part of this movie, though, his the emotional core throughout. If this series would have ended with this movie that final scene would have gone down in history as one of the best ways to end a franchise. Makes me want to cry everytime.

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I still have yet to go and see this movie but I’ve heard great things about it. Might go sometime this week.

Movie of the year! Gonna watch this soon.

I don’t normally watch the Fast and Furious series, but I would definitely watch it just to catch a glimpse of the late Paul Walker. 🙁

You has ne mesmerized by your thorough and moving frview. I plan to see this one.

nice review. This is one film that is generating curiosity to many. A must-see one for me.

I still haven’t watched the film but will try to squeeze it in during the weekend. It’s really unfortunate that Paul Walker passed away, he could have contributed to more FF films. It’s also great that he got a proper send off.

So many people is talking about this movie.. I think it’s worth a watch then..

I’m sooo glad you didn’t have any spoilers, glad to know they have a lot of great actors on board, and I would love to see that Ronda vs Michelle fight scene!

I am not a big fan of action movies but have heard about this movie alot. SUrely going to watch this movie.

Love how they ended the film. It’s really a tribute and proper way of saying good bye to Paul. For sure people who followed this film from the start cried buckets.

I have not read your review and come straight down to comments, simply for the fact I do not want any spoilers – I am going to take myself off to the cinema next week as a treat and watch the film in all its glory at the cinema – will come back and comment again once I have watched it!! Sim xx

Big fan of Fast and Furious series! Haven’t seen 7 yet but have to catch it soon. Paul Walker’s untimely death is really sad!

This is a great over-the-top car stunt film as the franchise where it belongs. How do you compare it with the other films in the franchise? Which was your favorite of all? This one? – Fred

I’m dying to watch this movie! Thanks for the detailed review that still doesn’t spoil it for us who haven’t seen it yet haha. Cheers!

I haven’t watch the movie yet but now you got me excited to watch it…. I have loved all the Fast & Furious sequels but this one is special because it is the last time we get to see Paul Walker in the Fast & Furious movie. I love that you added trivia to your movie review

I heard it’s really good and I don’t know if I can bear watching the tribute ;'(

I’ve only watched this series up to movie #2. I love the cars featured but I am not a fan of any of the casts, so I haven’t been watching any after that. But I do hear stunning reviews from my friends who are F&F fans. Thanks for sharing your review of the movie 😉

I totally feel you when u said u “held your breath” for 2 hours and 17 mins, haha! Haven’t caught the show yet, but i can’t waitttt!

*Sad to think about PW once again though..

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