Furious 7 : Movie Review


Furious 7 (2015)  - Movie PosterSetting aside what one thinks of them as films, "The Fast and the Furious" franchise was thought to be unstoppable for so long—increasing in size, popularity and box-office returns with almost every entry—that it came as a crushing, grievous, untimely blow when 40-year-old actor Paul Walker was killed in a violent single-car auto accident in November 2013. With filming on "Furious Seven" only halfway complete, new series director James Wan (2013's "The Conjuring") and returning writer Chris Morgan (who previously penned 2006's "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift," 2009's "Fast & Furious," 2011's "Fast Five," and 2013's "Furious 6") had to go back to the drawing board and make tough decisions about how to complete the film without one of their leading stars. This entire business situation, following so closely after tragedy, must have been awful to comprehend and even more difficult to endure. Ultimately, Paul's brothers, Caleb and Cody, were used as stand-ins, incorporated with additional body doubles as well as state-of-the-art CGI that would use the late star's face and voice. Watching the finished picture, the seams barely show; with a climactic fight scene shot in darkness and choppily edited the only obvious instance of doubles being used, viewers unaware of the film's history would assume Walker survived to see the end of principal photography.

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Author : Dustin Putman, TheFilmFile.com.