This film's correct name is "Furious 7", but I've renamed it "Fast &
Furious 7". It's annoying when films in a series are given random names.
Besides, by giving consistent names the films are easier to find in my
alphabetic list of posts. I hope my regular readers use the list a lot. I know I do. Whenever I watch
a film that I've watched before, I read my old reviews first, and I use my list
to find them.
"Fast & Furious 7" begins shortly after the end of the previous film. It's
more accurate to say that it overlaps. The opening scene takes place before
the mid-credits scene of
"Fast & Furious 6". Deckard Shaw is the brother of Owen Shaw, who was left badly injured and
comatose after the last film. Deckard visits Owen in the police hospital,
slaughtering everyone who gets in his way. I counted 19 bodies lying
scattered in the lobby and hallways as he walked out. He only spared the
medical personnel, not the guards. Judging by the mass destruction left in his
wake, they need to build a new hospital.
From what I understand, Deckard isn't necessarily a bad guy. He was an
elite soldier in the British SBS and SAS. Wow! It's rare that someone serves in both
units. He was trained to be a ghost, entering foreign territory
undetected to assassinate Britain's enemies. He's a man who can never be found
unless he wants to be found. But family comes first. Anyone who harms his
brother has to be dealt with.
Deckard visits the DSS offices to find out who was responsible for his
brother's injuries. No, he doesn't make an appointment. He breaks into the
building at night and logs into the computer of Luke Hobbs to get the
information. He doesn't reckon with Hobbs doing overtime. A fight with Hobbs
puts him into hospital for most of the film, but he climbs out of bed to go
into action in the last half hour.
The first person he kills is Han, as we saw in the mid-credits scene of "Fast
& Furious 6". Then he attempts to kill Brian O'Connor by mailing him a
bomb. A big bomb. After this his primary target is Dominic Toretto (Dom).
Help comes from unexpected quarters. The leader of a black ops military team
who calls himself Mr. Nobody offers Dom his assistance in finding Deckard if
Dom does a job for him first. A hacker called Ramsey has written a program
called God's Eye that can process data from every device on Earth with a
camera or microphone, everything from mobile phones to traffic cameras.
Combined with facial recognition software, anybody can be found. A Nigerian
terrorist has kidnapped her in Azerbaijan. If Dom frees her and retrieves the
hard drive containing God's Eye, Mr. Nobody will assist Dom in finding Deckard
Shaw; using God's Eye, of course.
Dom and his team go to work, but it's even more difficult than expected.
Deckard is never far away. Dom rescues Ramsey (after an exciting car chase),
but Deckard tries to push Dom's car off the road. Ramsey tells Dom that
the hard drive is in Abu Dhabi, but when Dom and his team go to collect it,
Deckard is waiting for them.
There's a bittersweet element to the film. The actor Paul Walker, who plays
Brian O'Connor, died in a car crash before the film had been completed. The
crash was nothing to do with the film itself. The filming continued with
slight rewriting. The final scene is a thinly disguised tribute to Paul
Walker. Dom says farewell to Brian, and there are flashbacks to the previous
films, but it's obvious that he's really saying farewell to Paul. The film is
dedicated to him.
Paul Walker 12 September 1973 – 30 November 2013 |
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