Rated: M
3/5
Now showing
THE seventh instalment of the Fast and the Furious series was not only one of the most intriguing but served as an emotional and heart-warming tribute to the late Paul Walker.
Furious 7, directed by Australian James Wan, is a sequel to Fast & Furious 6 and is centred around Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) – who is the older brother of Fast & Furious 6 antagonist Owen Shaw – getting his revenge on Dominic Torretto (Vin Diesel) and Brian O’Connor (Paul Walker) and the rest of the crew.
The crew decided to have one last ride to stop Shaw, with Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson) saying to Brian O’Connor, “Just promise me, Brian. No more funerals,” with O’Connor replying; “Just one more. His.”
This involves another heist, crashing a rich Middle Eastern prince’s party and dealing with a host of armed forces trying to stop them.
The film was also, in part, a tribute to Walker who died in a Porsche Carrera GT accident (not related to the filming of this movie or any other) in 2013 halfway through filming Furious 7.
This meant that his real-life brothers, Caleb and Cody, had to step in to act for Walker, while the producers put a CGI version of Paul’s face on them.
The film does a good job in hiding the fact Paul Walker had only filmed about half the film before he died.
The producers then had to make a decision on what to do and, without giving away the ending, they do a good job of paying tribute to Brian O’Connor’s career with the crew.
One of the highlights of every Fast and the Furious film is the banter between Pearce and Tej Parker (Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges).
Pearce is his usually witty self – with Parker shaking his head at everything he does – including a selection of cheesy one-liner pick-up lines to a number of thousands pretty girls in bikinis shown throughout the movie.
It is a car film, after all.
There are a raft of expensive cars used throughout the film, Aston Martins, a Bugatti Veyron, a Ferrari, a McLaren and endless American classic cars.
If there was one thing this film did, it lived up to its name.
Furious 7 was certainly furious; plenty of fighting scenes between Torreto, Shaw and American-standoff style car crashes.
However, that was one of the things that let the film down from being a five-star film: there were too many fistfights and not enough street races.
Yes, there were some insane cars on display.
A Lykan HyperSport, which was one of only seven is featured.
However the car is crashed through two buildings and the full power of the multi-million dollar super car is never fully expressed.
The movie still has its fair share of power slides, drag races and modern day super cars to keep the fans happy.
The film is full of sarcastic jokes, filthy-rich people, intimate fight scenes and mind-blowing super cars that are definitely worth a watch.
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