At least I didn't pay to see "Furious7"

Rating: 2/10 (17 July 2016)

Some movies are bad in interesting ways ("Olympus Has Fallen" and the original "Independence Day" come to mind). But "Furious7" is a badly written story with a script that shouldn't keep a middle-schooler interested. Nothing makes sense: The main villain appears by magic, entire armed squads appear by magic, helicopters and armed drones appear by magic. The plot disappears by magic.
"Furious7" is a series of action sequences, allegedly spectacular stunts and special effects separated by...I'm not sure what to call the non-action sequences: Narrative? No, because there is no coherent story told. Exposition? Nope, nothing is set-up or explained. Boring? Pointless? Amateurish? YES! That's it! Amateurish writing. Bring on a script doctor...and pronounce this "Mission Impossible" rip-off DOA.
Less than half way through "Furious Seven" I was entertaining myself by making mental notes about the illogical, nonsensical, and often irrational elements (dropping cars from an airplane and having them parachute directly onto a roadway!?!?) that are meant to pass as story. BTW---why air-drop the cars onto the roadway? Why not use the same magical device Jason Statham (as Deckard Shaw) used to get to the same site? Or just DRIVE there.
Other fun WTF's: Why did Shaw destroy the hospital on his way to visiting his injured brother? Why does anyone in the Furious gang trust each other since they are constantly keeping secrets about and from each other? Dwayne Johnson (as Hobbs) has a broken collar bone and a fractured arm (which is encased in a cast) but at a critical point in the movie he removes the cast by...wait for it...flexing his bicep and BURSTING the plaster. Never mind the miraculous healing of broken bones which has occurred in such a short period of time that no muscle atrophy has happened, he burst a cast by FLEXING HIS BICEP. I have a mental image of a doctor and several nurses following him out of the hospital yelling "Your medical record will indicate you left against medical advice!" The list of such nonsense is as long as the script, so if you get trapped into watching "F7" (hey--the F7 key on many computers opens the spell check or thesaurus apps---that's kind of on-the-nose) perhaps you will find some pleasure in finding more plot black-holes.
I rate "Furious7" a 2. I'd give it a 1, but there was ONE good line of dialogue:
Letty (to Dom): "Why didn't you tell me we were married?"
Dom: "You can't TELL someone they love you."
Seriously, that's the high point of the script for a very low movie.
I saw "Furious7" on a BluRay (it didn't make it any better) I borrowed from the library. Had I paid to see the movie I might have asked my bank to decline payment on the debit card charge.
RIP Paul Walker. At least YOU looked good in the epilogue.