Fun for a while, but the ending killed it for me

Rating: 5/10 (5 July 2015)

I thought this was a reasonably fun movie for the most part, despite the fact that the events in it were utterly ludicrous. The stunts were, for the most part, fairly enjoyable to watch, ridiculous as they were, and the acting and the characters weren't bad at all. I liked the fact that the 'good' guys, while crooks, at least had a code and acted like a family.
But what ruined it utterly for me was the totally gratuitous ending. After every other member of the 'good' side survives repeated and, quite frankly, impossible brushes with death, they just gratuitously kill off Gal Gadot's character??? Just utterly stupid. It probably wouldn't have bothered me so much if at least some of the other 'good' characters had died as well, but no-- just the hot foreign chick, who I guess was 'expendable' from the point of view of the filmmakers.
The sole reason I rented this (I had not seen the previous five installments) was to see Gal Gadot, who I had not previously seen in a film, because I was curious to see if she could pull off her upcoming Wonder Woman role. Here, she quickly sold me on her beauty, charm, wit, and physical talent, and I think she'll do fine as Wonder Woman. But why did they kill her character off??? In such a totally pointless way? Then, seconds later, Vin Diesel casually walks away from a flaming wreck of a plane-- uh, yeah, that makes sense.
I downgraded my ranking from what probably would have been a 5 or a 6 (for the fun factor, despite being ridiculously unrealistic) because of that lousy ending.
Edit: I have since read via internet that Gal Gadot's character kind of 'had' to be killed off to make this story consistent with a previous movie, "Tokyo Drift" (which is set after the events of this movie) where her boyfriend (Han, played by Sung Kang) had already died. As a result, I upgraded my rating from 3 to 5.