Fans of the series will find it watchable...maybe

Rating: 5/10 (11 May 2015)

I had serious high hopes for this movie, I really did. I pretty much like everything. Not only, did this movie not entertain me, It made me angry and sad. I Like Paul Walker movies, including the others in the Fast and Furious series. I own quite a few myself. As I write this review, there is an internal struggle within me because this IS Paul Walkers last movie. His co-stars and the creators of this movie really cared about him and it shows in the end. That being said, this movie really disappointed me. The cars?...awesome. The acting?...not bad. The action?... mostly unrealistic. The best action scenes you will see in the previews and you can save your money.
As an example, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is exploded...falls five stories onto the roof of a car...implodes it...and doesn't die. He breaks an arm and a leg. I may have been able to swallow that if it wasn't for the fact that he breaks out of his casts with the explanation that "daddy's got to go to work" and runs around the end of the movie holding a chain gun. I seriously didn't know whether to laugh or cry at that point. The crew gets constantly shot at and nothing happens...but when they turn the same weapons on the bad guys...they die horribly. Vehicles drop from extreme heights and don't explode. The fight scenes are brutal with hardly even a scratch. My last example is when Dom is presumed dead at the end. Brian wants to deliver CPR, which is what you should do if someone's heart stops, but instead turns him over to Letty who whispers in his ear and all of the sudden he awakens. The Paul Walker montage at the end is what really upset me, because he will never have a chance to be in another movie worth watching and this is the movie that capped his legacy. Fans of the series will find it watchable but will agree with me as they walk out of the theater or turn off the DVD player.