'Furious 7' review, 'Fast' version: A franchise best by several quarter miles

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Josh Dickey
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You are not going to want to miss seeing Furious 7 in a movie theater full of paying customers this weekend, because it's going to be bananas.

By now you've seen a little bit of the part where the whole team parachutes out of a C-130, in their cars. And this isn't some computer graphics stuff, this is a practical effect that a stunt team shot in real life.

The crowd goes nuts for this:

There's nothing like seeing this on a big screen, with everyone howling and applauding all around you. Nothing. It's f*cking great.

Oh! And Kurt Russell is in it! He owns! Seriously, this is as good as he's ever been in anything. He should be in every action movie.

And oh man, the part where they're in Abu Dhabi and Dominic (Vin Diesel) crashes out of one skyscraper and into another? B-A-N-A-N-A-S. Seriously, just that one shot is worth the price of admission alone.

Pretty sure they didn't actually do that stunt for real, but it looks great anyway:

There's a whole bunch of other stuff like it, too. Like when Hobbs (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) takes out a drone with an ambulance. An ambulance.

Or when Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) is running up the top of a bus that's teetering over a cliff and isn't gonna make it except Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) comes speeding up and he grabs onto her (SPOILER ALERT)? Classic. Just classic.

Speaking of Paul Walker, they really nailed it. It's sentimental as hell but what else could it possibly be? How else could they do it? It's gold.

Whatever, haters, it's Furious 7. You know you're going to have a good time at the movies this weekend.

What could be wrong with that?

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