FURIOUS 7 .... and the magnificent seven

Lucky 7 would be the ideal title for this movie, because it's incredible to find all this kind of things around a movie and a franchise that's being for so long and instead of getting old it got better after a reboot back on it's fourth installment. And to be fair to say now got to the point that its entertainment got so excessive and ridiculous that is funny to still find it good and reinventing, not to say all the additions and loses with the cast that has made this movie a must see for all audiences.

Starting with the movie, would be the lowest point for this new saga. The plot is as simple and non sense as many of it's stunts. The car races that defined the franchise are gone by this point but the cars have turned into another character using them as a new excuse to involve our characters into new adventures and action sequences with lot of turbo and gas. In the fourth chapter was about races and the mafia behind them to bring a kind of justice to the streets by this group of outlaws. By the fifth, we got a heist plot located in the city of Rio, Brazil, where this same group of outlaws where trying to get some money while escaping from the international authorities.

So by the sixth they had to collaborate and help this same authorities to track an international theft involves, of course, with cars and races, which only brought another level of stunts and jaw dropping sequences. So by now, when we thought we have seen everything we got surprised with cars doing sky diving, jumping from tower to tower only to get our famous outlaws that now happened to be best friends of the authorities, and because of that suffering the consequences from terrorists and spies trying to vengeance their own with their families.

For that, now they have to help a group of spies to locate a hacker and find this terrorist that actually its not hiding but showing up overtime to try to bring them down, making us wonder so why they bother to complicate all that? So let just say that this new world is far from our. This is a fictional world closer to any comic based, super hero movie, where cars can fly and outlaws are needed to bring down terrorist that FBI, CIA, KGB, MI6 and other international authorities can't. So once we are able to give some sense of that, then we are ready for the fun.

And that's what this movie is about. Lots of fun. The stunts are made to amaze anyone. The fighting sequences feel so real and vibrant that make you wonder how this didn't happen before. The lines are funny but simple, but as we are having that much fun, who cares. The acting is very lame as there is no much room for it, so all the weight goes to the director, James Wan, at his first time in the franchise, and better known for his well done recent horror films. But surprisingly he manages to keep all this together bringing some sense in this fictional world and let us enjoy with the rest of the cast, and even close the chapter with a tribute and a goodbye that is more than well done.

So bad, that feel's good, would be your feeling when you leaving the theater. And maybe too long at the end, when some action scenes would look better under the editing room, but still we can manage it. And mostly it's all connected by heart. The cast offers what the new audiences are looking for: a mix of characters and situations that make this movie connect it's fiction with our reality. With the original cast reunited, we are already involved with this family so every new chapter we can't but root in their favor hoping the best for them. And in this case the movie was surrounded by it's off screen spoilers. Due to Paul Walker's dead while they were shooting the movie, all kind of rumors about how would the movie end were online. Adding also a new must see point to it, this is your last chance to see the charming actor in his most popular character.

And that worked well. the movie and the franchise turned into the perfect momentum to say good bye while offering a tribute to his character and this actor by his best. This kind of scenes are one of the reasons why people like the franchise and are connected to it. Not to say that the cast offers one of the most mixed cast on recent movies that more than look as a catalog represents the new face of America and the first world countries. Those ones that were populated mostly by a majority, now looks all mixed with variety of personalities, backgrounds, and races that is exactly how looks any office, school, neighborhood in the main cities of NorthAmerica and Europe. Being hispanic, African American, Asian, Middle Eastern is not more just a location, its barrier is down and not even languages separate them. They all interact and live as one, Like this new family of car lovers and outlaws.

What definitely makes us wonder, is what would be the future of the franchise as it has been proving to have the energy to keep it alive and reinventing itself while making more money as it keeps going but as it's plot and stunts next time we can expect anything supernatural or out of space that will make it more furiously ridiculous or maybe a faster sleeper hit. We'll see.