Furious 7

I tried to go into this movie with low expectations and view it as just a bunch of fun but I couldn’t get through it without groaning. I truly do not know how the Fast and Furious franchise has managed to escape the horrific scrutiny that the Transformers franchise is inundated with, and they have 3 more movies! Physics is thrown out the window within 15 minutes of the opening credits. I lost count on how many times logic says a character would be dead but they somehow manage to beat death. The entire team must have adimantium skeletons for the amount of punishment and abuse they take without so much as a broken bone. Hobbs is the only one who actually ends up in a hospital after an event that should have killed him and that’s only to remove him from the plot and give Dom’s team another reason to fight other than the death of Han. The one bright spot in the beginning of the film is they call back to the third film Tokyo Drift that gives and explanation for its ending. The film goes on an almost two and a half hour run time giving us big explosions and fast cars but so little attractive women. They try to distract you having no plot by throwing in an unnecessary and unbelievable romance in turmoil story between Dom and Letti. This plot line can’t seem to make up its mind on how these to feel about each other flip flopping from love to indifference and back again. The one saving grace of the film is that the last five minutes are one of the greatest tributes to a fallen actor I have ever seen. When the decision was made to have Paul Walker’s character retire from the franchise I was skeptical on how they would do it. what turned up on screen was obviously done with immense care and admiration for a fellow brother and for the first time I actually believed what these Fast & Furious films were trying to shove down the audience’s throats that these people are family. The film is definitely worth the price of admission for the ending alone; it just simply takes too long to get there. 1 star out of 4.