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Speaking of airborne scenes, at one point two dudes are flying around on jetpacks with wing suits that look like the Falcon from the Avengers movie and nobody even bothers to question this at all.ĭom Toretto wins the movie's one mandatory street race by driving backwards across the finish line in a car that he has torn apart with his bare hands. The villain's big plan to kill the good guys is just straight up turning every car in New York City into a zombie. Her evil plan is to steal the world's supply of nuclear weapons. The villain is a super-hacker headquartered in a high-tech plane that flies through mysterious invisible holes in a global surveillance network introduced in the last movie.

#Fast and furious 7 movie#

Seriously: you can draw a pretty straight line from this to Lin directing the Star Trek movie that ends with the Enterprise surfing a wave of aliens that are exploding because of the Beastie Boys. This movie marked the first time that they were unleashed with the core cast, and they made the most of it with Morgan's increasingly imaginative (and improbable) set pieces and Lin's incredible talent for action. Okay, admittedly, they actually first showed up on Tokyo Drift-meaning we can credit Morgan with writing the 'out of control / in control' line and Lin with keeping it in the movie - but if we're being completely real with each other, that one was a side story at best.

#Fast and furious 7 series#

Not only is this the movie that starts to ramp things up with buck wild missions and stunts that are only vaguely related to cars - the opening sequence of Dom and his crew hijacking oil tankers by driving semi trucks backwards and snapping them off the convoy with liquid nitrogen is awesome and bonkers in equal measure - and not only does it set the pattern of globe-trotting adventure, it also marks the first great team-up of the series where neither person was named 'The Rock' or 'Vin Diesel': director Justin Lin and screenwriter Chris Morgan. And for the record? That movie is way better than this one. That dude even showed up for Tokyo Drift, but for this one, he was too busy filming an action movie that ends with him smack-talking a completely inanimate boat.

The car stunts are just okay, the characters are flat, and worst of all, it's the only movie in the franchise that doesn't have Vin Diesel in it. Unfortunately, even though it has what would absolutely stand as the single best title in the franchise until they got enough of them to finally make that Fate/ F8 pun work, it's just not very good. Ludacris and Tyreese Gibson's addition to the cast as Tej and Roman - our generation's Bing Crosby and Bob Hope just waiting for holiday movie to star in - was the first step towards putting together the crew that would turn the movies from buddy pictures into a full-on ensemble cast of total badasses who never lose a fight, and the setup of O'Conner being blackmailed into action with the promise of his freedom? That's the premise of at least three of these movies-maybe even five, depending on how loosely you want to define 'freedom.'