This is the seventh movie, another big toy full of absurd things, totally exaggerated things and impossible stunts, and quite entertaining. Yes, it tries really hard to be cool, but it’s well done so it succeeds most times. The action scenes are a lot, but all the stunts are well done and cool. Personally I don’t much care for car races, but in this specific franchise they can’t be avoided, can they? (How can they always find half-empty roads… maybe it’s just that American roads are immense, I once heard of an American man crashing because of our narrow roads and sudden turns.
Plot in details:
Shaw wants to sort-of revenge his brother who is in a hospital bed. Everything burns where he walks, he fights Hobbs and almost kills him (well, in other movies he would be dead, down a window and onto a car roof like that), to get the names of the team that got his brother.
Dom takes Letty to compete in the Race Wars that they invented together but she still can’t remember and it hurts her, so she tells Dom she has to go find herself.
Brian lives in a nice house with Dom’s sister and their son Jack and she’s expecting again. He misses “the bullets”… and he gets a bomb. It was kind of Shaw to call him to warn him, so nobody got hurt, only the house blew up. When she called, Shaw had just finished his Tokyo Drift adventure, and we see Han in the car still, so he won’t die?? I love Han… but then Dom says “he killed Han” :’( He’s really dead :’(
Hobbs talks to Dom from his hospital bed (he has a daughter) and tells him that Owen Shaw has a big bad brother. Mia and her son have gone to Mando in the Dominican Republic to be safe, while Brian will help Dom.
After Han’s funeral, Shaw brings a gun to his fight with Dom :p, but luckily Hobbs sent this man in black, this Mr Nobody to help. Dom and his team only have to find a certain Ramsey who invented a program called God’s Eye that os like a giant tracker to spy everyone on the planet, you could find anyone in a couple of hours with it, and if They get it they’ll find Shaw wherever he is. So, there’s Dom and Brian, Roman and Tej, and Letty. They make a plan, and it starts with them inside a huge plain, inside their cars parachuting out. Roman didn’t want to, so Tej threw him out. He has some troubles (but still lends more or less where they are and more or less at the same time, even if he got out a lot later…) , so the others go on without him, simply ejecting the parachute as soon as their wheels touch the ground, and they start driving… the short fight with those men guarding Ramsey is as expected (they wait until Brian is safe inside to start attacking, and wait till he gains access toma gun before thinking of using one themselves, everyone’s so thoughtful); Brian frees Ramsey then throws her on top of Dom’s car while he’s racing and she has to hang on for dear life indeed. Shaw shows up too, there’s a big race, cars flying, tree-slalom, turning in two meters to avoid a cliff, Letty saves Brian after hanging over a cliff inside a soon-to-fall down bus… then Dom has the girl put a helmet on before speeding his car off the cliff, the car crashes down the mountain, turning and turning, and he’s simply a little dizzy, if that!
Now this pretty girl Ramsey is not only a computer genius if she created that program, she’s also street smart and knows how to read people… she sent the device to a friend in Abu Dhabi so they go there. She hid it inside a thing to made cars speed and the guy Safar sold it to some billionaire and apparently all they need to infiltrate his big party is a nice dress/suit. Letty looks good in her red dress, and she fight three girl-soldiers before the big one. Ramsey at least doesn’t fight but lets Tej deal with the guard. Dom and Brian escape with the millions-worth car tryong to get the device in it, and they fly from one skyscraper to the next one and then to the next one before taking the device, getting out and letting the car fall down on its own. Uncountable damages, but they just go. They give the thing to Mr Nobody, who gives it back so they can do their part, and Ramsey uses it to find Shaw.
Dom wants to leave them behind (because they’re not killers) and only use Mr Nobody’s men, but Brian goes too. They find him quietly eating, because he’s not alone, he got those guys that were taking Ramsey somewhere. It’s dark, there’s a big shooting fight, Nobody is quite the man but gets shot. He has a jacket though. Dom and Brian get him out.
Now it appears that these mercenaries will stop at nothing to get Ramsey and they are tasked to protect her. They come back home to be on familiar ground. Mia finally tells Brian they’re having a little girl, so he better come back.
The bad guys can use God’s Eye too now, they got it from one of the dead soldiers (really, come on, I thought it was just a screen, and Ramsey had the actual program on the computer she was using).
They’re in a big car chase, Shaw only wants Dom, but the mercenaries want Ramsey. She hackers her own hacking system while in the car with Brian, then she changes car on the run, out one window and inside another, before Brian throws himself out and the car gets hit by some missile or something.
They’re destroying the city… Hobbs leaves the hospital, like an aspirin and he’s ready to go. He takes off the plaster by flexing the muscles… :lol: He steals an ambulance, drives it down a bridge and onto that missile-launcher that kept following Ramsey and shooting them (btw, Letty’s car got hit and it’s still whole…) then he comes out on his own two feet.
Brian reaches the top of a building, takes one cable, puts it into his phone and voilà, Ramsey can hack the world… she gets God’s Eye back in a second…
Dom and Shaw have a big street-fight showdown, but are pretty much evenly matched, until the mercenaries shoot them… but for some reason they shoot quite a few meters off, Dom doesn’t even lose his balance, but the street breaks and Shaw falls down… and Hobbs arrives with a big machine gun to take down the helicopter who was now about to shoot Dom. They shoot at Hobbs too, but he just wills the bullets away I guess.
Letty’s in trouble so Dom runs to the rescue, and his car can oitrun anything and everything apparently, missiles or bullets or the city falling down. He launches it at the helicopter, but they turn and he crashes down, but he got Shaw’s bag of bombs attached to it so Hobbs just have to shoot it… nice team work. This time though Dom is quite affected, rather dead, Brian does the usual yelling trying Cpr then Letty does the emotional speech on how she remembers everything now and if he dies she dies too, and suddenly he’s good enough to talk.
Shaw is put inside a high security place : “you do know none of this will keep me right?” - “well, once you dig through 38 feet of concrete and steel, my fist and a body bag will be waiting for you on the other side. So I suggest you get to digging, boy”.
The ending. Dom, Letty, Tej, Roman, Ramsey are at a beach watching Brian playing with his son and wife, and Dom goes away alone, but Brian catches up with him for one last race as goodbye or something, then there’s some scenes from previous movies, about the Brian character and them as a family, we see the writing For Paul, and it’s the end.
Dominic Toretto… Vin Diesel
Brian O’Conner… Paul Walker
Deckard Shaw… Jason Statham
Letty… Michelle Rodriguez
Mia… Jordana Brewster
Hobbs… Dwayne Johnson
Nobody… Kurt Russell
Ramsey… Nathalie Emmanuel
Also Djimon Hounsou as Jakande, Ali Fazal as Safar, Ronda Rousey as Kara, Elsa Pataki as Elena.
In the credits there’s also Gal Gadot as Giselle although we only see a picture and a scene from the last movie with her in it, same thing for Han=Sung Kang. There’s also Luke Evans name although we only see Owen Shaw in his hospital bed for a moment.
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