Good but long and over the top

Rating: 7/10 (1 December 2015)

I have been a huge fan of the F&F movies since the beginning, with my personal favorites being 2 Fast 2 Furious, and Tokyo Drift. The recent movies have deviated from the original just street racing and fast cars premise to a more summer blockbuster action type movie. Although it is nice to see a movie be able to adapt what it does since a lot of people weren't fans of just the racing, but I think they changed too much. I fell in love with all the characters when they were just racers with an occasional fight for a girl or because they were in a sticky situation. This new movie along with the previous two while entertaining just has so much over the top action almost as bad as the expendables. The acting is okay but not great, Jason Statham is great in his normal hard ass role, and you know whenever he is on screen you will get some goo fight scenes. Vin Diesel is okay, has some good fight scenes and some ridiculous car stunts, but his one-liners are stale as are the Rocks. Paul Walker is great as usual and I have loved his Brian character since the beginning. They did a great job towards the end with stunt doubles and CGI keeping us from even noticing that he wasn't able to finish shooting the movie because if his untimely death. Ludicrous plays his hacker character well, but Tyrese Gibson's character has become stale also, although some of his lines are funny they are usually not placed well in dialogue. Towards the end they did a good job closing up everything, but I don't like how they left open the possibility of having a 8th installment. I think the way they ended it was great giving Paul Walker the send off the did was awesome so I don't think they should come back and make another movie. My last problem with the movie is that it has a 2 hour plus run time which is kind of long for the type of movie it is. All in all it was a good movie and if you are looking for over the top action, and fast cars and race scenes, and don't care much about a story then you should definitely check it out.