This movie has a devastating and truly affecting ending (Paul Walker had filmed about half of his role in this movie at the time of his 2013 death; the movie ends with a touching tribute to him), but it’s also got the best action sequences in the series. Statham as Deckard Shaw is still the best villain the series has made, a lone, rogue, black ops spy who pits people against one another with ease. His introduction scene, tearing through a hospital during the movie’s opening credits, is immaculate. It also adds Kurt Russell as spy leader Mr. Nobody, who rules, and Game of Thrones’ Nathalie Emanuel as a hacker named Ramsey.
Things that also happen in this movie: Vin Diesel flies his car through a helicopter and plants a bag full of grenades on it. The Rock, recovering in a hospital bed, looks out the window and says to his daughter “Daddy’s got to go to work,” before flexing out of a full-arm cast (please, please, I beg of you, don’t think about it.), riding an ambulance down to the action, shooting a drone and firing a turret like a madman.
It might just be the greatest scene in the history of movies.
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