Furious 7So I hadn't seen this one before just now, and I'll say that for the most part, it's really damn good. I'm all about the action getting as big and crazy as it possibly can, even if I did call bullshit on Paul Walker putting up any kind of fight against Tony Jaa.
And storywise, this and the last movie both took what could have been a corny as hell soap opera with Letty's amnesia, but did a really damn good job with it. And they took what could have been a huge problem with Walker's death and really made it one of the best parts of the movie.
I will say though that they didn't make very good use of Jason Statham. It feels like they wrote thirty pages of a straightforward Vin vs Statham movie, ran out of ideas, and then threw in the whole Kurt Russell/satellite plot to pad the movie out to two hours. And yes, Statham should have just been The Transporter, would have made his subsequent face turn easier to swallow, at any rate.