Fast and Furious 7 film review- a critique by IGN

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Furious 7 director James Wan faced a heartbreaking challenge when lead Paul Walker tragically died in the middle of production. So it’s something of a miracle that he and the team behind this escapist series have managed to not only deliver another delightfully over-the-top joyride, but also elegantly honor the actor at the heart of it. The film hits every note necessary to satisfy fans. Cars are flung from nearly all conceivable heights and defy gravity at every turn. The air about hot rods are balanced with equally impressive hand-to-hand combat sequences, just one of which takes place between Walker and Tony Johore in the back of a speeding truck. There’s also a cliff involved. Never want to be left out of the boy’s fun. Michelle Rodriguez engages in yet another bone crunching woman, a woman battle a fast, fiercest lady, Lady Ortiz Leidy’s tenuous relationship with Vin Diesel. Dominic Toretto is also further explored as she struggles to regain her memories. Jason Statham steps in sticker shock brother to Luke Evans’s own bent on vengeance against the team that defeated his sibling. Stethem is ideally cast as the relentless, if somewhat humorless, villain.

Dwayne Johnson delivers another show stealing albeit brief turn, as Luke Hobbs and Tyrese Gibson and Ludacris continue to lighten up the occasionally soapy proceedings as tension room, respectively. The incomparable Kurt Russell makes his debut as a super secret government agent who needs Dom to retrieve a kidnapped hacker named Randy, played by Game of Thrones stunner Natalie Emmanuel, who’s invented a device known as God’s Eye Gods. I can locate anyone, anywhere at any time. So once he’s retrieved the girl and her invention, Dom is at liberty to use it to find and defeat Shaw. The text actually serves as a pretty intriguing conceit, but in total, the story is deliriously nonsensical, and the dialogue, as always, is often pretty cheesy. However, not only we come to expect that with these films, the fans likely wouldn’t want it any other way. One indulges in one or two action sequences too many, and the audience is left feeling stuck on the spectacle of it all rather than satisfied in wanting more. However, the final scene, a delicately rendered tribute to Paul Walker, entirely resets the tone.

There’s something genuinely beautiful in the way they’ve handled the standoff, which is not only entirely in line with what this franchise is all about, but will leave even the prickliest viewers just a little bit heartsick. Lock it up.