Furious 7 The Rewatchables
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Furious 7

What’s Aged the Worst?

Letty's amnesia plot; the Rock's daughter; underdeveloped villain Mose Jakande; the L.A. action finale; no police response; the ending's first-time surprise; the Deckard Shaw plot

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  • Seven items are promised, starting small: Letty's roughly two-year amnesia is questioned, with the reply that she survived a crash that almost killed her.
  • The Rock's daughter and the added family backstory seem unnecessary.
  • The villain "Moz Chikandi" (as transcribed), played by an actor called an Oscar winner on air ("Demon Hensu" as transcribed), is read from Wikipedia as a Nigerian-born mercenary; he gets no backstory or menacing scene, and a key scene may have been cut.
  • The actor is praised, citing In America, with a joke that he took the role and then found he was the second villain with ten minutes of screen time; this is called the least successful villain execution in the franchise.
  • The L.A. action ending is dark and hard to follow compared with the Fast 5 vault or the Fast 6 runway, capped by Dom jumping a car into a helicopter; it is the speaker's least favorite action ending of the first seven.
  • The reply's theory is that the L.A. set piece was never the real ending, only filler before the beach goodbye, which is why the movie feels different leaving the theater; the Rock with the giant gun is a highlight.
  • No police or fire department responds while towers and parking garages blow up downtown.
  • The first-time surprise of the theatrical ending has aged worst only because it cannot be repeated; how hard it was to land, and how badly it could have gone, has been forgotten.
  • The nominee for the winner of aged worst is the entire Deckard Shaw plot: he kills at least 20 police officers and Han, nearly kills Hobbs and Elena, and blows up Brian's house, yet the later movies accept him, as at the end of Fast 8.
  • Han should have been kept alongside Tyrese and Ludacris; a late-2019 full rewatch and a new trailer showing Han back prompt jokes about him dying five times.
  • Before Hobbs and Shaw, a small spin-off with "Galgado's" (as transcribed) character and Han in Europe is proposed, joked as a better move for her than Wonder Woman, along with wishes for mini-movies; Han and "Steve Yun" (as transcribed) of The Walking Dead are cited as Asian icons who were killed off.