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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 BlackDjimon 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[]

Spoiler Warning: The following contains important plot details of the entire film.

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[]

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.

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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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