DIRECTOR: James
Wan LEAD CAST: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson,
Jason Statham, Gary Scott Thompson SCREENWRITER: Chris Morgan, Gary Scott Thompson PRODUCER: Vin Diesel , Michael Fottrell, Adam
McCarthy, F. Valentino Morales, Neal H. Moritz, Thomas Tull, Samantha Vincent EDITOR: Leigh Folsom Boyd, Dylan Highsmith, Kirk M. Morri, Christian Wagner
MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Brian Tyler GENRE:
Action, Crime, Thriller
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Stephen F. Windon, Marc Spicer DISTRIBUTOR: Columbia Pictures LOCATION: USA, United Arab Emirates, Canada, Japan
MTRCB rating: PG
CINEMA rating: A14 RUNNING TIME: 124 minutes
Technical assessment: 2.5
Moral assessment : 2 stars
CINEMA rating : V14
Deckard Shaw (Statham) swears vengeance against Dom (Diesel), Hobbs (Johnson) and their team for putting his older brother in a comatose. He chases them one by one and almost kills Dom. Fortunately a Mr. Nobody (Russell) intervenes in time and offers Dom a chance to outsmart Shaw if he and his team will rescue Ramsey (Nathalie Emmanuel) and retrieve her creation—God’s Eye, a program which allows the user to use all cameras worldwide as a spycam. For the mission, Mr. Nobody reunites Dom’s team, including his girlfriend Letty Ortiz (Rodriguez) whose memory is slightly erased after a car accident in the previous Fast and Furious movie.
One seriously needs to be a Fast and Furious fan to make sense of all the time jumps and characters featured in the past sequels. But taking this franchise as a standalone, the plot is both thoughtlessly thin and fabulously absurd. Really? A group of race car drivers turned spy. Really? A vengeful brother who talks too much before his lethal blow. Really? An unknown financer who has all the money, technology and resources at his fingertips yet turns to a bunch of underground ex-criminals to retrieve something as precious and delicate as a spy program. Setting aside the storyline, the action sequences are exhaustingly overextended. One chase scene allowed us to take a long bathroom break and buy some snacks. Yes, it does achieve that moment of heart pounding thrill but without a solid storyline as its backbone, the film would need several overstretched action scenes to sustain its audience. The production design is superficial and superfluous. It makes everything glossy and clean but disengages the audience as nothing is relatable anymore. Camerawork and scoring scream high budget production but with cardboard performances and flat storyline, technicalities are wasted. The only good thing you can appreciate in the film is the redevelopment of Walker’s character so the succeeding franchise can continue even without him. Overall, Fast and Furious 7 is okay for adrenaline junkies with nothing better to do.
Fast and Furious 7 tries hard to celebrate family as demonstrated by the number of times the characters had lines that mentioned this word. Yet, the actions and decisions of the characters contradict the principle. Family is protecting each other, not teaming up to kill someone else. Family is sacrificing one’s self but do you bring your whole team and endanger them in the process? The sentiment is touching but it feels empty and shallow because of the violence and thrills of the chase and action scenes. Definitely, not a movie for the younger audience.
Moral assessment : 2 stars
CINEMA rating : V14
Deckard Shaw (Statham) swears vengeance against Dom (Diesel), Hobbs (Johnson) and their team for putting his older brother in a comatose. He chases them one by one and almost kills Dom. Fortunately a Mr. Nobody (Russell) intervenes in time and offers Dom a chance to outsmart Shaw if he and his team will rescue Ramsey (Nathalie Emmanuel) and retrieve her creation—God’s Eye, a program which allows the user to use all cameras worldwide as a spycam. For the mission, Mr. Nobody reunites Dom’s team, including his girlfriend Letty Ortiz (Rodriguez) whose memory is slightly erased after a car accident in the previous Fast and Furious movie.
One seriously needs to be a Fast and Furious fan to make sense of all the time jumps and characters featured in the past sequels. But taking this franchise as a standalone, the plot is both thoughtlessly thin and fabulously absurd. Really? A group of race car drivers turned spy. Really? A vengeful brother who talks too much before his lethal blow. Really? An unknown financer who has all the money, technology and resources at his fingertips yet turns to a bunch of underground ex-criminals to retrieve something as precious and delicate as a spy program. Setting aside the storyline, the action sequences are exhaustingly overextended. One chase scene allowed us to take a long bathroom break and buy some snacks. Yes, it does achieve that moment of heart pounding thrill but without a solid storyline as its backbone, the film would need several overstretched action scenes to sustain its audience. The production design is superficial and superfluous. It makes everything glossy and clean but disengages the audience as nothing is relatable anymore. Camerawork and scoring scream high budget production but with cardboard performances and flat storyline, technicalities are wasted. The only good thing you can appreciate in the film is the redevelopment of Walker’s character so the succeeding franchise can continue even without him. Overall, Fast and Furious 7 is okay for adrenaline junkies with nothing better to do.
Fast and Furious 7 tries hard to celebrate family as demonstrated by the number of times the characters had lines that mentioned this word. Yet, the actions and decisions of the characters contradict the principle. Family is protecting each other, not teaming up to kill someone else. Family is sacrificing one’s self but do you bring your whole team and endanger them in the process? The sentiment is touching but it feels empty and shallow because of the violence and thrills of the chase and action scenes. Definitely, not a movie for the younger audience.
