An over the top movie, but still fun to watch

Rating: 7/10 (8 August 2015)

I have watched the extended version so keep that in mind while reading this review, also at the ending of my review are gonna be some spoilers
So Furious 7 is again about Dom (Vin Diesel) and his crew. His crew has just lost a member (I am not going to say who they have lost because I want to make this a spoiler free review). This person has been killed by Deckard Shaw. Deckard is the brother of Owen Shaw, Owen was the villain in the previous movie. In furious 6 they almost killed him. Now his brother (Deckard) searches for revenge against Dom and his crew. But now that Deckard has killed someone of their crew they also search for revenge against Deckard...
I did the best as I could to explain the story because it kind of doesn't make sense. If you have already seen the movie you will probably get what I am going to say now, and if you haven't seen the movie you could see this as a minor spoiler. So to find Deckard, Dom and the crew have to search this device that can track Deckard. But with each part that they get closer to finding that device Deckard shows up, He literally shows up almost everywhere they are! So what I don't get is why they just didn't have a whole team of SWATT guys standing there ready to take down Shaw?
OK now that I have said that lets talk about the directing. It is directed by James Wan (the same guy from 'The Conjuring') The begin fight scene between Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and Shaw (Jason Statham) is pretty good, not to fast edited, and there are no shaky cams. Also the driving sequences and when they jumped out of the plane with cars was pretty well directed. And the fighting scene in the bus with Brian (Paul Walker) and this Asian guy wasn't directed that great, here was it to fast edited and you couldn't really see what was going on. They also used slow motion very often, it was used nice at times but it was also a lot of the time unnecessary.
Here is a bit more about the writing and acting. Statham was like Statham is in every movie, but his begin lines were pretty good actually, also when he walks out of the hospital it is funny to see all the SWATT guys on the floor because you didn't expect it to be like that. Paul Walker was also pretty good as Brian, he just fits the character. Vin Diesel is what you would expect from Vin Diesel a very monotone acting job. His best scene was at the funeral of the person they have lost. Dwayne Johnson was my favorite character of the crew, and i thought it was stupid that they only put him in the movie for a couple of minutes, but he still acted pretty well. I also liked that they put Hobbs in the hospital so you can see that he is also a human and not some invincible being, but he is the only one that gets hurt in the entire movie, the rest of them are like super humans, because they are also very strong. Natalie Emmanuel was very good, I liked her very much in the movie, Jordana Brewster was good for the part of the movie where she was in, because she (just like Hobbs) had not much screen time. the rest of the crew had Oké performances. The writing was not too bad, the jokes thy put in to the script were funny for most of the times.
I didn't like that they made everyone to powerful, they should have made the characters more human, and venerable. There are a lot of clichés in Furious Seven, but i didn't really mind. Some parts are also pretty over the top, HERE ARE GOING TO BE SOME SPOILERS, like when they jump from the one building to the other and the fighting scenes are sometimes pretty funny. Because it is so over the top. And near the ending of the movie when Dom stamps on the floor and takes down Shaw is just laughable. The ending is also pretty straight forward, the bad guy gets captured, bla bla bla. But the last couple of scenes are very emotional. the special effects are very well done.
I would definitely recommend this movie, just don't think to much with it and you will have a great time watching it!