Furious 7

Fast & Furious 7 (internationally known as Furious 7 or Furious Seven) is a 2015 American action thriller drama film as well as the seventh and final installment in the Fast & Furious film series. Written by Chris Morgan and directed by James Wan, it stars Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Lucas Black, Djimon Hounson and Jason Statham.
This marks the final film appearance of Paul Walker who died on November 30, 2013, while the film was in production. After Walker's death, filming was delayed for script re-writes and his brothers Caleb and Cody were used as stand-ins to complete his remaining scenes. Furious 7 was released first in Australia on April 2, 2015, and then in the United States on April 3, 2015, and was released in 3D internationally, a first for the series. Upon release, the film became a massive critical and commercial success, with much of the praise being aimed at the film's visuals, acting, action sequences and its tribute to Paul Walker.
The film made $392.2 million worldwide in its first three days of release, which is the fourth-highest opening of all time. The film has grossed over $1 billion worldwide, currently making it the highest-grossing film in the franchise, the 20th film to reach the $1 billion mark, currently the highest-grossing film of 2015, and the 5th highest-grossing film of all time.
==Plot==
After defeating Owen Shaw (Luke Evans) and his crew and securing their amnesties, Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel), Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker), and the rest of their crew are able to return to the United States and live normal lives again. Brian begins to accustom himself to life as a father, while Dom tries to help Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) regain her memories by taking her back to Race Wars and to her old grave. Meanwhile, Owen's older brother Deckard (Jason Statham) breaks into the secure hospital the comatose Owen is being held in and swears vengeance against Dom, before breaking into Luke Hobbs' (Dwayne Johnson) DSS office to extract profiles of Dom's crew. After revealing his identity, Deckard engages Hobbs in a fight, and escapes when he detonates a bomb that sends Hobbs and his partner, Elena Neves (Elsa Pataky), flying from the building and onto the roof of a car. Severely injured, Hobbs is rushed to the hospital by Elena. Dom later learns from his sister Mia (Jordana Brewster) that she is pregnant again and convinces her to tell Brian about it, despite her objections. However, a bomb, disguised in a package sent from Tokyo, explodes and destroys the Toretto house just seconds after Han, one of their crew, is killed by Deckard in Tokyo. Dom later visits Hobbs in hospital, where he learns that Shaw is a rogue special forces assassin seeking to avenge his brother. Dom then travels to Tokyo to claim Han's body, where he meets Sean Boswell (Lucas Black), a friend of Han's, who gives him personal items found at Han's crash, including a cross necklace that Dom had attempted to find for Letty.
Back at Han's funeral in Los Angeles, Dom notices a car observing and chases after the vehicle, driven by Deckard. Dom confronts Deckard in an underground tunnel, but Deckard flees when a covert ops team arrives and opens fire, led by a man only known as Mr. Nobody (Kurt Russell). At his air base of operations in El Segundo, California, Nobody informs Dom that he will assist him in stopping Deckars if he helps him prevent a mercenary named Mose Jakande (Djimon Hounsou) from obtaining God's Eye, a computer program that can use digital devices to track a specific person, and save its creator, a hacker named Ramsey (Nathalie Emmanuel), from Jakande's men. Dom recruits Brian, Letty, Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson) and Tej Parker (Chris "Ludacris" Bridges) to help him. However, Brian makes a promise to Mia that after Shaw is dealt with, he will dedicate himself to raising their son full-time.
To rescue Ramsey, the team airdrop their cars over the Caucasus Mountains, ambush Jakande's convoy and rescue Ramsey. They then leave for the Etihad Towers in Abu Dhabi, where a billionaire has acquired the flash drive containing God's Eye. At the Etihad Towers, the team breaks into his penthouse and manages to steal the flash drive. On both occasions, the team is pursued by Deckard, who engages in combat with Dom, and the team barely manages to escape alive. With God's Eye, the team manages to track down Deckard, who is waiting at a remote factory. Dom, Brian, Nobody and his covert ops team attempt to capture Deckard, but are ambushed by Jakande and his militants, who have allied with Deckard. In the ensuing battle, Nobody's men are killed and Nobody himself is injured, though he manages to escape with Dom and Brian while Jakande obtains God's Eye from one of Petty's men, and he is eventually medevaced by helicopter. Left with no other choice, the team decides to return to Los Angeles to fight Deckard, Jakande and his men on their home turf. Dom plans to confront Shaw alone while Brian and the rest of the crew prepare to deal with Jakande and regain control of God's Eye. At the same time, Mia reveals to Brian that she is pregnant with their second child, a girl.
While Jakande pursues Brian and the rest of the crew with a stealth attack helicopter and unmanned aerial vehicle, using God's Eye to track down Ramsey, the team uses Ramsey to hack into God's Eye while sharing her mobile between their vehicles. Hobbs, seeing the team in trouble, breaks out of hospital and destroys the UAV by ramming it with an ambulance. After Brian manages to manually reroute the program's signal, Ramsey successfully completes the hack, regains control of God's Eye and shuts it down. Meanwhile, Dom and Deckard engage in a one-on-one brawl on a parking garage, before Jakande intervenes and attacks them both, and Deckard is apprehended when part of the parking garage collapses on him. Dom then engages in battle with Jakande and launches his vehicle at his helicopter with him in it, narrowly missing, but successfully manages to toss a bag of grenades on board, before getting himself injured when his car lands and crashes. Hobbs then shoots the bag of grenades from ground level, destroying the helicopter and killing Jakande. When Dom remains unconscious, the team fears that he is dead. As Letty cradles Dom's body in her arms, she reveals that she has regained her memories by remembering their wedding. Dom regains consciousness soon after, remarking, "It's about time".
Later, Deckard is taken into custody by Hobbs and locked away in a secret, high-security CIA prison. Meanwhile, at a beach, Brian and Mia play with their son while Dom, Letty, Roman and Tej observe, appreciating their happiness and acknowledging that Brian is better off retired with his family. Dom silently leaves, and Brian catches up to him at a stop sign. As Dom remembers the times that he has had with Brian, they bid each other farewell and drive off in separate directions.
==Cast==
*Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto
*Paul Walker as Brian O'Conner
*Dwayne Johnson as Luke Hobbs
*Michelle Rodriguez as Letty Ortiz-Toretto
*Jordana Brewster as Mia Toretto
*Tyrese Gibson as Roman Pearce
*Chris "Ludacris" Bridges as Tej Parker
*Djimon Hounsou as Mose Jakande
*Tony Jaa as Kiet
*Ronda Rousey as Kara
*Nathalie Emmanuel as Ramsey
*Kurt Russell as Mr. Nobody
*Jason Statham as Deckard Shaw
John Brotherton portrays Sheppard, Mr. Nobody's right-hand man. Sung Kang and Gal Gadot appear in archive footage as Han Seoul-Oh and Gisele Yashar. Lucas Black reprises his role as Sean Boswell, an American street racer who lives in Tokyo whom Dom meets when he travels to Tokyo to claim the body of Han, a mutual friend of theirs killed by Shaw. Elsa Pataky reprises her role as Elena Neves, a DSS agent and former Rio police officer who moved to the United States to become Hobbs' new partner at the DSS. Luke Evans briefly reprises his role as Owen Shaw, Deckard's now comatose younger brother, from Fast & Furious 6 (2013), and Noel Gugliemi reprises his role as Hector for a cameo appearance from The Fast and the Furious (2001).
Ali Fazal portrays Safar, a friend of Ramsey to whom she sent the God's Eye for safekeeping. Fazal described his role as a cameo. Australian rapper Iggy Azalea (who also appears on the soundtrack) makes a cameo appearance as a racer at Race Wars. American singer/rapper T-Pain appears as himself as he DJs a party in Abu Dhabi. Romeo Santos makes a cameo appearance as Mando, who shelters Mia in the Dominican Republic and Klement Tinaj appears as one of the Race Wars racers.
==Trivia==
*This is the first film of the series to take place after the events in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, with the three previous installments being set between 2 Fast 2 Furious and Tokyo Drift.
==Video==
===Trailers===
Fast & Furious 7|Official Trailer
Fast & Furious Supercharged Super Bowl Spot|Superbowl Trailer
Furious 7 - Official Theatrical Trailer (HD)|Theatrical Trailer
Furious 7 - In Theaters and IMAX April 3 (TV Spot 15) (HD)|TV Spot Trailer
Furious 7 Plane Drop (TV Spot)
Furious 7 - Legacy Trailer|Fast X Legacy Countdown Trailer
===Clips===
Furious_7_Hobbs_Gives_Dom_Intel_On_Shaw
Furious_7_The_Crew_Blows_The_Back_Off_The_Transport
Furious_7_Letty_Fights_With_Prince%27s_Bodyguards_At_The_Party
Furious_7_Hobbs_Discovers_Shaw_In_His_Office
Furious_7_Mr._Nobody_Makes_Dom_An_Offer_To_Help_Find_Shaw
Furious_7_Dom_And_Shaw_Fight_On_The_Garage_Rooftop
Furious_7_Ramsey_Tells_The_Crew_Why_She_Trusts_Them
===Interviews===
Fast & Furious 7 Vin Diesel on Creating a Tribute that Looks to the Future
Furious_7_Chris_Bridges_On_The_Franchise
Furious_7_Jordana_Brewster_On_The_Anticipation_Of_Furious_7
Furious_7_Vin_Diesel_On_Raising_The_Stakes
Furious 7 Tyrese Gibson On The References From The Previous Films
Furious_7_Dwayne_Johnson_On_Developing_His_Character
Furious_7_Michelle_Rodriguez_On_The_Revolutionary_Nature_Of_The_Franchise
Furious 7 Nathalie Emmanuel On What Attracted Her To This Film
Furious 7 James Wan On Taking The Characters Back To Their Origins With Race Wars
===Featurettes===
Furious_7_-_Favorite_Stunts_Featurette
Furious_7_-_Favorite_Locations_Featurette
Furious_7_-_Favorite_Fights_Featurette
Furious_7_-_Favorite_Cars_Featurette
Furious 7 - Featurette "A Look Inside"
Furious_7_Ludacris_Presents_Family_(Featurette)
Furious_7_Ludacris_Presents_Franchise_(Featurette)
Furious 7 Ludacris Presents Action (Featurette)
Furious 7 Toretto Home (Featurette)
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==Reception==
===Box office===
Furious 7 grossed $353 million in the United States and Canada and $1.163 billion in other countries, for a worldwide total of $1.516 billion, against a production budget of $190–250 million. It was also the fastest film to reach the $1 billion mark at the time, doing so in 17 days, until it was beaten by Jurassic World two months later. It also became the first film to pass $1 million in 4DX admissions worldwide. Deadline Hollywood calculated the film's net profit as $354 million, accounting for production budgets, marketing, talent participations, and other costs; box office grosses and home media revenues placed it fifth on their list of "Most Valuable Blockbusters".
Worldwide, Furious 7 was released across 810 IMAX theaters, which was the largest worldwide rollout in IMAX's history, Its worldwide opening of $397.6 million was the fifth-highest opening of all time. The film had an IMAX opening weekend total of $20.8 million.
===Critical reception===
The film has received positive reviews. The Los Angeles Times reported that reviews for Furious 7 have been "generally positive" with critics praising the film's action sequences and for its poignant tribute to Walker. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 82% "Certified Fresh" approval rating with an average rating of 7.7/10 based on 277 reviews. The site's consensus reads, "Serving up a fresh round of over-the-top thrills while adding unexpected dramatic heft, Furious 7 keeps the franchise moving in more ways than one."
On Metacritic, which 50 a normalized rating, the film has a score of 67 out of 100, based on 44 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". In CinemaScore polls conducted during the opening weekend, cinema audiences gave Furious 7 an average grade of A on an A+ to F scale.
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