Furious for the 7th time!

Rating: 5/10 (19 January 2016)

Furious 7. This was one of the blockbusters of 2015, in which I was at least interested in. However, I love the full cast, the entire crew, and the name of the director was also really promising for me. In addition, I have had the chance to see a favorite Asain actor of mine, namely Tony Jaa in a Hollywood flick.
Although, all these news are encouraged me to watch this movie, the final outcome was disappointing for me once again. Starting out with the pros, the movie was really well-directed! I raise my hat before the director and the producers (and stunts of course) because the entire movie is well-edited. It is stuffed with a lot of actions, which are rhythmically followed by some more sluggish dramatic scenes, which are really required here IMO. However, the playtime counts more than 2 hours, you won't feel bored for a single minute, and this is what I call an achievement! The acting performance and the chemistry between the actors are still awesome. Just like in the prequels, Vin Diesel is calm and serious at the same time, Paul Walker is the cop, who rarely shows his emotions factually, but still effective, there's Letty, who still struggles with her memory, but we could see a quite good character development in her case, and yep, there's Roman, who still has some hilarious moments. The movie manages the balance between threads of the previous installments in order to entwine them with the current state of the storyline.
Unfortunately, the other members of the crew are a little bit pushed in the background. I would have liked to see more of Tej, and especially Hobbes! However, he was more than bad-ass in his moments, but this cannot be compared to the badassness of Jason Statham, which was more than exaggeration. I do not wanna spoiler those moments, but the way he is sleazy and though at the same time was quite ridiculous for me to take him seriously enough. And the same goes for the action sequences. There were too much over-hyped, close to impossible scenes, which was not attributable to the first few installments of the franchise. The abundance of slow-motions, explosions, gunshots and flying cars were torn me out of the movie and made me an outsider, who was just sitting in the theatre with huge eyes without believing what is really happening n the silver- screen.
All of this would have been excusable for my part if I have seen any trace of an illegal race! Honestly, there were quite a few moments in the movie, where I actually felt from the signs made by Dom, that there could be something like what I mentioned. But it was only a hope, unfortunately. The old, good feeling of the streets has been transformed into an action-packed moneybag franchise by Hollywood.
In summary, this was an average action movie for me. I would recommend it if you wish to pump up your adrenaline level, do not care about reality, wanna enjoy few humorous quotes and see, how the story goes on with the Toretto family. Buti f your desire is to receive something of the old times, then you will be disappointed, because is has long-disappeared.
My final rating is 5/10. Thanks for reading!