Furious 7: Someone's take on the future of the franchise...
Posted by
budice
Apr 6 '15, 07:01
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Furious 7 had a great weekend, but the franchise just jumped the shark in a BIG way that no one is discussing.
Posted by: tawdryhepburn on Apr 05, 22:22
Short Version: The F&F series has always been about men on opposite sides of the badge fighting for justice outside of what is strictly legal. With Furious 7, the characters are now working with Black Water and Haliburton to seek "Justice" in a way that is strictly-speaking, legal.
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Long Version: It is essential to the formula that our heroes are outlaws. These are cowboy movies, Ronin movies: Hell, the title of this entry puns on the first film to mash those two genres. A major part of the appeal is that Dom and Co. live by their own set of rules and a clear sense of justice, even as they are, essentially street thugs, theives, robbers and extortionists. But in Furious 7, Dom and his family are working hand-in-hand with a black ops private military force to secure control of a horrific, Orwellian piece of techology that even the most uninquisitive person imaginable should still immediately recognize as fundamentally evil.
These are characters who spent the better part of the last decade on the lam. Every single one of them is an ex-con or a blood relative of an ex-con. Every single one of them has seen deep corruption in the legal system. Hell, police corruption has been the driving force for the plot of several entries. How the hell does no one have any objection to the 'God's Eye' technology? Why would they just hand it over to Mr. Nobody after he explicitly states that it will be used for secret assassination missions?
Few people have noted this massive misstep because it gets forgotten in the shuffle when compared to the massive wallop that is Paul Walker's goodbye, but I don't see how they can retcon this. It's part of the series' fabric now. Dom and Co. have now become 'The Man.' They are black ops government employees who assist in political assisinations to aide in American domination of foreign economies.
Mark my words: this series is finished. Not because of Walker, but because the protagonists have lost all credibility as anti-hero outlaws. Now they are boot-licking sellouts.
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