Theater Whore: Furious 7

Furious 7 – 8/10

This will have spoilers. KP and I decided that we needed to watch Furious 7 yesterday. First we watched Fast & Furious 6 right before heading out because she hadn't seen it before. We went to the Arclight and got the party started. This movie picks up right after the last one left off where the Asian dude got killed by Jason Statham in Tokyo and he called Vin Diesel and told him that he was coming for him. Turns out that Statham and the bad guy from the last film are brothers. Then the movie moves backwards a tiny bit. Paul Walker is getting used to being home and not dodging bullets while Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez struggle with her memory problems. After winning a race she starts acting all weird and runs away.

Jordana Brewster tells Diesel that she is pregnant but hasn't told Walker yet because she knows he hates being normal. Then they get a package from Japan that blows up their entire damned house. 

The Rock fights Statham and ends up in the hospital after being blown out of a window and landing on a car downstairs while saving his partner. After the funeral for the Asian dude Diesel spots a car and chases after it and ends up fighting Statham.

Next Kurt Russell shows up with a military team and tells Diesel that he wants him to help him take down. There is a weapon called The God's Eye that they have to stop. The team flies overseas and use their cars to parachute down to a road where they fight the team led by Tony Jaa which is awesome and that Black guy that used to play a slave in every film. You know who I'm talking about. This leads to one of the craziest damned car chases I have ever seen in a movie.

The team then heads to Abu Dhabi where they get into a fancy party to steal something that the chick they saved during the last chase played by this cute chick from Game of Thrones named Nathalie Emmanuel. This leads to a car flying through three buildings, Michelle Rodriguez getting into a crazy ass fight with Ronda Rousey, but they get away with it.

There is a lot more of crazy shit that happens in this movie. Like jets with missiles and stuff. This had more action than I was expecting. It topped the last one for sure. It was really fun and there was not a point in this where heading to the bathroom would be a good idea. It never stops. 

As for the death of Paul Walker during the making of this, you will not notice the stand in's for him or anything like that. They did this perfectly and the way it ended honored his memory very well. If you're a fan of this franchise you will love the fuck out of this movie. This should be the last one.

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