What happened?

Rating: 5/10 (7 July 2015)

For those whom may be familiar but have not seen any of the Fast and Furious franchise, I strongly recommend you do not start with this film because it will almost definitely turn you off from what are a great few films. I've generously given this film a 5 star rating only for the decently exciting action sequences and the few actors and actresses that continued to portray their characters well. As for the rest, what happened? This film is about the older brother of Owen Shaw, that the FF team took on in the previous film, wanting revenge for the harm done to his brother. This new antagonists name is Deckard Shaw, the last film's ending reveals that the accident that killed Han, A FF team member, in the third FF movie was actually cause by Deckard Shaw. This movie pretty much starts from there and revolves around the battle between Shaw and the FF team.
Now I've seen all the actors and actresses in this film act very well in other films, so I tend to blame the poor acting on the director and script. Dominic is nothing like the character he once was, he's a completely stiff meat head that speaks nothing but cliché sentences. It's like the screen writer typed "Bad*** one liners", into Google and tried to find a way to fit every one of them in the script. I haven't seen Vin Diesel ever play such a paper thin, boring, predictable character other than Riddick, only in Vin's self produced horrible sequel to the first 2 films. (Pitch Black and The Chronicles were actually good flicks.) I could go on and on but to sum it up its a classic Hollywood case of, more boom(Explosions) and less substance. It's a disease that plagues some of the best franchises and struck this one right around its 4th movie, though only a slight case in that film, so it was still enjoyable.
Keep this in mind, I'm a fan of this franchise and of what its about. If anything my opinion should be biased in favor of this movie, but its really just that bad.
Lastly I'd personally like to say I'd like to see more of Sean Boswell in the up coming films. The first Fast and the Furious and Tokyo Drift are my favorite in the franchise. And after Sean's mentor(Han) was killed, his character only seeing 2 minutes of screen time in this film was a complete joke. Furthermore, so was the scene that explained Dom beat Sean in a drift race. Sean was DRIFT KING, Dom was in an old heavy muscle car and we have seen no experience with him in any actual drift races. This scene is synonymous for the entire film. Defy absolutely every piece of logic and realism to make Dominic Toretto look like the most bad*** man whom ever lived. Had they worked less hard on that maybe they would have made a decent film.
R.I.P. Walker