One of the most disappointing movie of the Fast & Furious series.
If you are a Fast & Furious fan then no matter what the review, you will still go for it. Nevertheless, this movie will dissatisfy even a hard core fan.
Hollywood action movies do have some fair amount of logic and reasoning unlike most of our Bollywood action movies we have grown up watching where the lead actors duck all bullets fired by a machine gun while the all the baddies get unlucky even with a single bullet fired from a revolver.
F6 I felt was one of the best in the series with a good storyline where the performance of the characters was decent without anyone going overboard.
F7 messes up in most of the departments. While the lead actors are all veterans, they fail to impress. The dialogue delivery was casual and even the comedy scenes were hardly amusing. The car chase and action scenes were unconvincing as if directed by a B Grade Bollywood Director. Whether it is Dwayne Johnson, Vin Diesel or Jason Statham all of them surviving huge falls and horrible car crashes without breaking a single bone and then getting up for action is akin to Tom & Jerry screenplay. The story in short – F7 picks up from where F6 left with Shaw(Jason Statham) committed to avenge his brother’s attackers. He is ruthless and is shown killing cops and anyone he wishes at will. He is hired by a gang who are on the look-out for a device which can give them access to something called the Eye of God or Gods Eye(cannot recollect) which can give you access to all the CCTV cameras. A lady hacker is abducted for this purpose who looked more of a model than a software engineer. The F7 gang is hired to counter this plot. The F7 gang knows that to reach Shaw they have to get the lady hacker. So starts the unconvincing car drop from the sky, car chase, car stunts and the uninspiring action choreography all of which ends with capturing of Shaw alive giving enough reason and ammunition for the making of F8.
I will not recommend F7 for the reason that the storyline is not strong enough to justify the follow-through. The lead characters seemed to be prideful and boastful with no logic or reasoning applied to the sequence of events. Any crap in the name of action and stunt is thrown at you which is a bit difficult to digest.
F7 will just water down the good impression it has created from the previous series.
F7 is a tribute to Paul Walker and he will be missed.
Except for the Fast and Furious fans who wish to see their stars in action can go for it but the rest could avoid this movie.