... I wasted my time...

Rating: 6/10 (29 June 2015)

...and I wasted a lot of it. I gave this movie a go since everybody was starting to bug me about it. "OH THE ENDING IS SO GOOD U MUST SEE IT!" was probably the reaction I heard the most. This somewhat raised my expectations to an absolute all time high. I sincerely thought I would get a quality movie-twist ending the likes of "Who Am I", "Memento" or "Fight Club". So I started, and not with F&F 7, but with F&F 5 to catch up with the story to make 100% sure that I get the full enjoyment out of this so praised "really good movie". After a 4 hour marathon of all of testosterone pumped explosions, boring races and muscle packed action I finally got to the main course: F&F 7. The movie couldn't get any better for me when I saw one of my favorite action-actors, Jason Statham, being in the cast as well. When the credits started to roll in after another two hours the only thing I said to myself was: "Someone owes me my mother****ing 6 hours back, and I want them back right now."
To conclude it in a more polite way: This movie is not bad. But it is not good either.
*Spoilers begin here*
The ending, at least for me, started with a fighting scene in the old warehouse. At that point of the movie I was so bored that I sincerely tried to figure out when Paul Walker passed away and at which point he started to get doubled. In the end I expected some kind of huge twist, which was probably the thing that pulled the entire movie down for me. That twist never happened. You see the two protagonists cruising down a road next to each other. Paul Walker smiles, takes a left turn, camera turns in the sky, "Rip Paul", credits. WHAT. This literally showed me that the people who actually said this movie had a great ending never saw a good movie in the first place. I felt absolutely scammed when that ending came up, hell, I even watched the entire credits to see if something story-relevant would happen afterwards... My mind was repeatedly saying to myself: "Have I been watching the WRONG movie? Did people talk about a different movie with a cool ending?" This does not mean that the ending was not fitting, that means that the ending was way below what I expected. But then again, maybe my expectations got a little over- hyped.
And don't get me wrong here: The movie was not bad. It had some funny moments, some nice special effects (although jumping through 3 skyscrapers with a high torque car is more comedic than realistic), it has an okay story line for an action movie (Aka, the uber-cool protagonists, the muscle packed human tank that is never shy of a cocky statement, female... let's call them "charms", a villain with an unbreakable will to be evil and a load of explosions) but then again, this is about what every action movie since the year 2000 has. There is nothing new to be found here, the only difference is that those explosions can now be enjoyed in 1080p, big bloody whoop for that.
All in all, an average action movie which does not differ in any way from any movie. The only thing that actually makes this movie so popular is the sudden hype around Paul Walkers death, an actor who was literally of no interest to anybody before his death and who suddenly turned everybody into whining fans of a movie sequel they never watched in the first place.