Living life in the Fast Lane

Rating: 9/10 (3 June 2019)

Fast and Furious 7 is an action-packed movie that will get your on the edge of your seat, make you laugh, and drive all your attention into the movie screen. After watching Fast and Furious 7 I couldn't help but feel the need to go do something dangerous the adrenaline rush this movie gives you is unlike any other. The feeling that you cheated death just by watching the movie is absolutely remarkable. There are many scenes in this movie that give me this feeling but the two stand out the most are when Brain (Paul Walker) gets trapped in a bus sliding off a cliff and he runs up the bus as its going off the edge and grabs hold to Letty's (Michelle Rodriguez) spoiler on her car. Although some of the CGI in this particular scene looked a little unrealistic the focus was more on Brain and did no the effect the power and meaning of the scene. And the other is when the crew backs their cars out of a flying plane and parachute down to a small mountain road. This was absolutely insane to watch as they had real footage of them dropping these cars out of a plane.
The whole plot of the movie was dealing with the kidnap of Ramsey (Nathalie Emmanuel) over a surveillance device that can use any camera or microphone to find anyone and anything within minutes called God's Eye. Finding the chip to this device leads them all over the world including Dubai where Dom drives a 3.4 million dollar supercar, the Lykan hypersport, which contained the chip through three buildings tens of stories in the air. During all of this Brian's wife is kidnapped and they are forced to hand over the God's eye chip. With the chip in the wrong hands they now have to have Ramsey hack the system but the only problem is is that the bads guys with the chirp and in a helicopter and she needs to be within one mile for the hack to work. They basically play hot potato with Ramsey in cars while being shot at from above until the hack is complete. They then blow the chopper out of the sky in a dramatic car jump grenade shot. They recover God's Eye and the security of the world is restored.
This is the director's, James Wan, first action movie as he was more formally known for his work in the horror industry. But it's safe to say he nailed this and I would hope to see him creating more action movies in the future. Wan did a great job giving the movie an intense feel the whole time except when Roman (Tyrese Gibson) who is the crew's jokester/ladies man that lightens the mood would speak up. Roman never failed to make me laugh and is an essential part of the movie to create a more well-rounded crew. Although some of the stunts were a tad far fetched, that's what I would have hoped to expect from a Fast and Furious movie, it's what keeps us coming back for more. I also cannot say enough good things about the soundtrack to this movie I personally have downloaded over half of the songs from this movie and listen to them all of the time. And finally, my favorite part about this movie was the tribute to Paul Walker at the end. Paul has been a huge part of the Fast and Furious movies and his character Brian is more important than any other character in these movies. The tribute Wan gave to him was very respectful and brought tears to my eyes as well as many others. Overall this was a great action movie with a lot of different elements that are entertaining for everyone. It is a movie I would highly recommend seeing and a fun movie for people of all ages.