A Spurious mash up of film and TV shows loses its own plot.

Rating: 3/10 (6 April 2015)

Fast and Furious 7 or' Spurious Heaven' in my mind is, for millions of viewers, obviously, a whole lotta car smashin' fun, but for me it was just a pile of silly. Give me 'Need for Speed' and 'The Beverly Hillbillies' for more accessible car 'grunt'. Furious 7 is an overdose of film, TV and genre mash ups. It is Jackass meets James Bond or The Avengers/Guardians of the Galaxy/ Superfriends/ Agents of Shield meet Blofeld/ Jaws/Zoltar ... So what? Well, the series started off creating its own genre. Cool hipster car hoons pushing hotted up cars to their limits with a few human rights issues covered along the way for some heart. This hopefully final installment forgets all that and tries too hard with a silly McGuffin; 'God's eye' that gives total power to whoever can access it with a nice girl/ hot chick hacker nerd. At least this 'Bond Girl' didn't have to be bedded by the hero to stay in the film. I usually love Jason Statham's stock character, but his supervillian was low level pantomime Terminator and was just irritating. Kurt Russell appears as an Optimist Primo type and kits our heroes out in wannabe transformer cars and we go from one really silly set piece to another. The Rock puts his best Hulk on for some biffo. And there's even a Shrek Donkey appearance. I took a nap in the middle from all the gun muzzle flashes and explosions, just after the Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol bit.
The cast is all likable and it's great the gang is here for truly the last time but I wish the series had gone back to its roots rather than being a jacked up James Bond.
The best sequence was the final one as a moving tribute to Paul Walker used the perfect metaphor for this series. It is a tragedy that he had to take a different road and we will miss him from our screens.
Too much of a good thing? You bet your parachuting GI Joe cars it is.