'Furious 7' A Review

Furious 7 is the latest installment in the Fast & Furious series the street racing based action franchise. The movie opens on the villain of Fast & Furious 6 Owen Shaw in a hospital bed with his brother Deckard Shaw(Jason Statham) swearing vengeance against Dom(Vin Diesel) and his crew. Deckard sends a bomb to Dom's house where his sister and brother-in-law Brian(Paul Walker) are getting ready to take their son to school. No one is hurt from the explosion but the house is destroyed and Dom gets his crew together to hunt Deckard before he gets them first.

The movie is corny, formulaic, with ludicrous improbable action sequences. There are numerous callbacks to the other installments in the series and the mantra of family and living life "a quarter mile at a time" is once again trumpeted. The movie is saved from being an outright melodrama only by the surprising sincerity imbued by the actors, even so some of the dialogue is so cheesy it is cring worthy.

Fans of the series will certainly be satisfied with Furious 7 especially with the heartfelt and meta dedication to Walker at the movies conclusion. And as always the action is ambitious and sleek enough to be thrilling. But ultimately anyone unfamiliar with the Fast & Furious mythology will be lost and the installments have inflated to become so divorced from reality the world they inhabit is almost nonsensical.

Rent It.