![]() ![]() In classic Furious spirit, just when you think it can’t get more ridiculous, it does. What matters here are the thrills: Cars are driven off airplanes, a drone attacks the streets of Los Angeles, and Paul Walker leaps off a bus as it's falling off a cliff. ![]() But the plot details are largely irrelevant in what is an unnecessarily complicated plot. But the bliss is short-lived, thanks to one Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham), hell-bent on avenging his brother. After defeating the previous super-villain, Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and Brian O’Connor (Paul Walker) are back in Los Angeles as free men. Furious 7 picks up where Six left off, and also ties together loose ends from the third installment. Maybe it’s because they started before franchises really took off, or maybe it’s just the diesel fumes, but Furious is, in a way, the anti-franchise franchise.įranchise it may be, but The Fast and the Furious doesn’t care about all of that. But while the Furious movies are undoubtedly part of Hollywood’s franchise addiction, they also defy the conventions of today’s Hollywood landscape. Characters have come and gone, and the series has transformed from a relatively low-budget speed-freak-fest to a globetrotting, star-studded box office behemoth. It’s been 14 years since the first movie in the franchise thundered to life-before the first Lord of the Rings movie, before the Harry Potter franchise, long before Marvel’s cinematic universe was a lucrative twinkle in Disney’s eye. In the latest installation, Furious 7, The Rock breaks an arm cast by flexing his bicep, and I felt my heart shudder and swell and splinter along with it. ![]() But for all that high-mindedness, nothing gets my blood pumping like The Fast and the Furious franchise. I saw Gone with the Wind when I was three, grew up on Garbo, and make all my love interests study Hiroshima mon amour. ![]()
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