Monday, March 28, 2016

Fast & Furious 7


The latest in the Fast & Furious franchise and the last one to star Paul Walker, it brings the plot back to where Tokyo Drift finished off, with Han dead and Jason Statham's character out for revenge against the team.  It is a very nice revenge setup between Dom's team and Deckard Shaw.  However, this chase is diluted through the introduction of more generic villains so the overall atmosphere isn't as personal.  The films started to get more improbably as it went along and Fast & Furious 7 takes the cake.  In order to be bigger and better, as well as exceeding your expectations, there's stunts like cars parachuting out of a plane, cars running through skyscrapers and cars gunning straight down a mountain cliff.  All these happen without the characters getting majorly hurt.  After the first few you start to suspend your disbelief and go along with it, that's just the nature of Fast & Furious.  The tribute to Paul Walker at the end of the film was really well done and did not feel out of place at all.  While not achieving the high that was Fast & Furious 5, this seventh film is filled with visual spectaculars and action.

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