Furious Avengers: The decay of a franchise

Rating: 5/10 (12 August 2015)

Furious 7 is the latest installment in the Fast & Furious franchise and by far the worst one. It's a well known fact that this type of movies is mainly directed towards excited teenagers who don't mind leaving their unexperienced brains at the entrance of the movie theaters. Given this target audience it's no surprise how much success this latest sequel had.
Along with the combination of tasteless music and half naked women you may expect the usual dialogue and humour with the most ridiculous one liners ever to hit the big screens. The mindless, insane and unrealistic action sequences are back at a level never before seen in the franchise. You will be left with the sensation that you're watching The Avengers Age of Ultron or some sort of super hero movie, of course combined with the always overused CGI. The plot is centered around personal vendettas with each side trying to take the advantage. Full of clichés and subliminal concepts and messages, it's clear that despite covering up the movie as a "tribute" the studios were clearly expecting, in one way or the other, to take advantage of Paul Walker's popularity and his death by appealing to the sensibility and emotions of the fans, and it worked. This may hurt the naive minds of some innocent young folks but it's the truth. The last scene with the tribute to Paul Walker is probably the best piece in all the movie. having said that, it's hilarious to see how much the media, specially the mainstream, advertised and praised this movie, contributing to this collective brain wash. Meanwhile, some movies in this genre, despite much smaller budgets, were reasonably better and yet are labeled as "poor copies" of this junk, the irony of it all...