Furious 7

Ok, the block buster season has returned, and so have I, to review those movies we all wanna see. This is one of those franchises, which is considered a guilty pleasure to most, including myself, and some of the things you choose to over look because you're enjoying the action. This franchise is known for ignoring the laws of physics with their impossible stunts, but this time they went way too far! Lets just get to the review:

Furious 7- Ok, 15 years later, this franchise has become the "Harry Potter" of race car movies. Each time a new sequel is created they go with some new stunt or gimmick more impossible than the last movie. Well, they finally have gone too far, where the audience was laughing out loud at most of the shenanigans being performed during this movie. There was one scene, where Dom (Vin Disel) plays chicken with the main villain Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham), and both cars smash into each other. Both drivers get out, simply crack their necks and other joints, and get ready to get into a fist fight. No air bags deployed and these guys don't even have a scratch on them. WHAT? NO!

Plot- There are literally TWO PLOTS going on at the same time in this movie. One is Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) is the older brother of the villain from the 6th movie, and he wants revenge for what happened to his younger brother. He is a special Ops, gone rogue, and he's targeting the main cast one by one. Then on top of that, a special agent played by Kurt Russel, approaches Dom (Vin Disel) to help recover a computer hacker by the name Ramsey. She has created the ultimate searching device, where you can find anyone anywhere from every device with a camera or video device. If Dom helps him, he will help Dom get Deckard. Huge plot hole is, Deckard is hunting them the whole movie, and every time they are doing something for Kurt Russel, Deckard is there to screw them up... so why not just get him? Why do you need to help Kurt Russel at all? FUCKING DUMB!

Now, i know action movies back then were ranging in different types of movies. This franchise would seem to apply to those movies to keep up with the mainstream. Nowadays, the only action movies are superhero movies, so I guess they figured all the characters, in this film, need to have super powers. A few examples, Dom's ability to have super human strength and impervious to any injuries, The Rock's super human strength and fast regeneration ability, and Michelle Rodriguez's ESP, and ability to resurrect a person by simply by telling a story how her memory had returned.

Final Verdict- 3.5/10, This film is laughable how serious they want you to take it, and they should've all died 5 times over from the impossible stunts they performed. The only saving grace was the nice send off to Paul Walker. This is an HBO movie at best! Save your money!


That's it for now, This is Phil Goes to the Movies, so you don't have to!