No one would have guessed that an article in Vibe\u2019s May 1998 issue would become the catalyst for one of the largest movie franchises on the planet. \u201cRacer X\u201d served as the inspiration for The Fast and The Furious, Vin Diesel\u2019s flagship series that\u2019s gone through ups and downs over the decades, but along the way, one movie stands out as the pinnacle of insane car action and in retrospect, is where the series should have come to an end. Furious 7 (the actual name for Fast and Furious 7) features the best cast, the best stunts, and the best ending, which sets aside the plot to pay tribute to Paul Walker in a scene that caused entire theaters of people to sob uncontrollably.<\/p>\n
Anticipation For Furious 7 Was Off The Charts<\/strong><\/h3>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/7YDVWWVC3Swz42T_fbFYFQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU0MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/giant_freakin_robot_articles_628\/389fcee04229b07f6012a4f231188db9\"\/)
<\/span><\/div>\nFans were stoked for Furious 7 the moment Fast 6\u2019s post-credit scene started up, and everyone realized that, finally, the Han (Sung Kang<\/a>) time paradox was going to be resolved. During the third film, Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift, Han dies in a fiery crash, and Fast & Furious 6 revealed that Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham<\/a>) was behind the crash. Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, and Jason Statham<\/a> in the same movie? How could it go wrong?<\/p>\nAmazingly, it didn\u2019t. Furious 7 exceeded expectations even though the plot to stop the terrorist Jakande (Djimon Hounsou) from using the God\u2019s Eye satellite sounds a lot like any of the plots from the sixth through ninth movies; it doesn\u2019t matter when the action is this good. From the mountainous convoy attack to leaping between buildings in a car, it\u2019s absurd and over the top, while not becoming as cartoonish as the magnet action of Fast & Furious 9. In no other franchise could The Rock destroying a drone with an ambulance be called grounded, but there\u2019s nothing quite like The Fast and The Furious.<\/p>\n
The Right Mix Of Car Stunts And Martial Arts<\/strong><\/h3>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/Td1PEIZk.1TuhjtXTXSNUA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU0MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/giant_freakin_robot_articles_628\/80cd4ae0cdd11e473cf536e8b1c38857\"\/)
<\/span><\/div>\nThe action scenes that don\u2019t involve cars might, for the only time in the franchise, be as good as watching muscle cars break the laws of physics. Thanks to the inclusion of MMA champion (and future WWE star) Rhonda Rousey, the real-life Muay Thai master Tony Jaa\u2019s Hollywood debut, and Statham, the hand-to-hand combat is as kinetic as hitting the Nitrous.<\/p>\n
Furious 7 also brought in Nathalie Emmanuel<\/a> as Ramsey, the hacker, during the height of Game of Thrones, and Kurt Russell as Mr. Nobody. On top of the returning core group from the last two movies, it\u2019s a ton of characters to keep track of, but like the rest of the film, the ensemble approach works.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/QXOC4wG.0nMlr2KVxRp39A--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU0MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/giant_freakin_robot_articles_628\/cb69bff266d8c17444413edcfb70f899\"\/)
<\/span><\/div>\nHorror director James Wan<\/a> took the reins for Furious 7 after Justin Lin revived the franchise. Wan, co-creator of Saw and Insidious, brought his \u201cpractical first\u201d approach to the film by using as little CGI as possible and instead relying on destroying actual cars during the dozens of location shoots. 240 were destroyed during the convey chase scene alone. Most of the film\u2019s CGI was instead utilized for a very good reason.<\/p>\nThe Death Of Paul Walker<\/strong><\/h3>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/axLcaV3xa4IoKV0sSXLT8g--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU0MTtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/giant_freakin_robot_articles_628\/506858b0e7be38d971253c530652d88c\"\/)
<\/span><\/div>\nWhile working on Furious 7, Paul Walker died in a car crash on his way home from a charity event. His unfinished scenes were completed by his brothers, Cody and Caleb, with Paul\u2019s face superimposed upon them. If you\u2019re looking for it, you can tell the moments, especially the fight against Tony Jaa\u2019s terrorist, but it\u2019s still less intrusive and off-putting than Disney de-aging Harrison Ford for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe best decision made during filming was to have Walker\u2019s character, Brian, retire and live a life of peace with his wife and kid. Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth\u2019s \u201cSee You Again\u201d plays over Diesel driving down a road, joined by archival footage of Paul Walker, as their two cars ride together, and then take separate paths, in the simplest, most elegant send-off any star can hope for from the franchise they helped build. The opening scene of Up and the ending of Toy Story<\/a> 3 may have made headlines for their emotional punch, but as a send-off to a real-life star, only Black Panther: Wakanda Forever\u2019s funeral can come close to the emotions of Furious 7\u2019s final moments.<\/p>\nA Record-Setting Release<\/strong><\/h3>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/fjRPbsQG3QWyfjbgNDA3MA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU0MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/giant_freakin_robot_articles_628\/8a3f325ec8433bd63aa4d22d7245232e\"\/)
<\/span><\/div>\nFurious 7 was not only a hit from the moment it was released, but it also became one of the highest-grossing films in history, passing the $1 billion mark in only 17 days. As further evidence that this should have been the end of the series, it remains the best-rated film of the franchise on all major review sites, including Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, and CinemaScore. The efforts of Jason Mamoa and John Cena<\/a>, along with the spin-off, Hobbs & Shaw, haven\u2019t been able to bring the series back to the heights it achieved with Furious 7. Most franchises don\u2019t even get to a seventh movie, never mind that movie becoming the best of all of them, but again, The Fast and The Furious isn\u2019t like any other series out there.<\/p>\nIf you need to take a moment and forget the disappointment that was Fast X<\/a>, fire up Furious 7, available for rent on Amazon Prime<\/a>, Google Play<\/a>, AppleTV<\/a>, and YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No one would have guessed that an article in Vibe\u2019s May 1998 issue would become the catalyst for one of the largest movie franchises on the planet. \u201cRacer X\u201d served as the inspiration for The Fast and The Furious, Vin Diesel\u2019s flagship series that\u2019s gone through ups and downs over the decades, but along the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2132713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[405915,351882,324709,351880,352229,352228],"class_list":["post-2132712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-deckard-shaw","tag-furious-7","tag-jason-statham","tag-paul-walker","tag-the-fast-and-the-furious","tag-vin-diesel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-Best-Fast-And-Furious-Will-Never-Be-Topped.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2132714,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132712\/revisions\/2132714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2132713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2132712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2132712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Fans were stoked for Furious 7 the moment Fast 6\u2019s post-credit scene started up, and everyone realized that, finally, the Han (Sung Kang<\/a>) time paradox was going to be resolved. During the third film, Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift, Han dies in a fiery crash, and Fast & Furious 6 revealed that Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham<\/a>) was behind the crash. Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, and Jason Statham<\/a> in the same movie? How could it go wrong?<\/p>\n Amazingly, it didn\u2019t. Furious 7 exceeded expectations even though the plot to stop the terrorist Jakande (Djimon Hounsou) from using the God\u2019s Eye satellite sounds a lot like any of the plots from the sixth through ninth movies; it doesn\u2019t matter when the action is this good. From the mountainous convoy attack to leaping between buildings in a car, it\u2019s absurd and over the top, while not becoming as cartoonish as the magnet action of Fast & Furious 9. In no other franchise could The Rock destroying a drone with an ambulance be called grounded, but there\u2019s nothing quite like The Fast and The Furious.<\/p>\n The action scenes that don\u2019t involve cars might, for the only time in the franchise, be as good as watching muscle cars break the laws of physics. Thanks to the inclusion of MMA champion (and future WWE star) Rhonda Rousey, the real-life Muay Thai master Tony Jaa\u2019s Hollywood debut, and Statham, the hand-to-hand combat is as kinetic as hitting the Nitrous.<\/p>\n Furious 7 also brought in Nathalie Emmanuel<\/a> as Ramsey, the hacker, during the height of Game of Thrones, and Kurt Russell as Mr. Nobody. On top of the returning core group from the last two movies, it\u2019s a ton of characters to keep track of, but like the rest of the film, the ensemble approach works.<\/p>\n Horror director James Wan<\/a> took the reins for Furious 7 after Justin Lin revived the franchise. Wan, co-creator of Saw and Insidious, brought his \u201cpractical first\u201d approach to the film by using as little CGI as possible and instead relying on destroying actual cars during the dozens of location shoots. 240 were destroyed during the convey chase scene alone. Most of the film\u2019s CGI was instead utilized for a very good reason.<\/p>\n While working on Furious 7, Paul Walker died in a car crash on his way home from a charity event. His unfinished scenes were completed by his brothers, Cody and Caleb, with Paul\u2019s face superimposed upon them. If you\u2019re looking for it, you can tell the moments, especially the fight against Tony Jaa\u2019s terrorist, but it\u2019s still less intrusive and off-putting than Disney de-aging Harrison Ford for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny<\/a>.<\/p>\n The best decision made during filming was to have Walker\u2019s character, Brian, retire and live a life of peace with his wife and kid. Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth\u2019s \u201cSee You Again\u201d plays over Diesel driving down a road, joined by archival footage of Paul Walker, as their two cars ride together, and then take separate paths, in the simplest, most elegant send-off any star can hope for from the franchise they helped build. The opening scene of Up and the ending of Toy Story<\/a> 3 may have made headlines for their emotional punch, but as a send-off to a real-life star, only Black Panther: Wakanda Forever\u2019s funeral can come close to the emotions of Furious 7\u2019s final moments.<\/p>\n Furious 7 was not only a hit from the moment it was released, but it also became one of the highest-grossing films in history, passing the $1 billion mark in only 17 days. As further evidence that this should have been the end of the series, it remains the best-rated film of the franchise on all major review sites, including Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, and CinemaScore. The efforts of Jason Mamoa and John Cena<\/a>, along with the spin-off, Hobbs & Shaw, haven\u2019t been able to bring the series back to the heights it achieved with Furious 7. Most franchises don\u2019t even get to a seventh movie, never mind that movie becoming the best of all of them, but again, The Fast and The Furious isn\u2019t like any other series out there.<\/p>\n If you need to take a moment and forget the disappointment that was Fast X<\/a>, fire up Furious 7, available for rent on Amazon Prime<\/a>, Google Play<\/a>, AppleTV<\/a>, and YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No one would have guessed that an article in Vibe\u2019s May 1998 issue would become the catalyst for one of the largest movie franchises on the planet. \u201cRacer X\u201d served as the inspiration for The Fast and The Furious, Vin Diesel\u2019s flagship series that\u2019s gone through ups and downs over the decades, but along the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2132713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[405915,351882,324709,351880,352229,352228],"class_list":["post-2132712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-deckard-shaw","tag-furious-7","tag-jason-statham","tag-paul-walker","tag-the-fast-and-the-furious","tag-vin-diesel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-Best-Fast-And-Furious-Will-Never-Be-Topped.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2132714,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132712\/revisions\/2132714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2132713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2132712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2132712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The Right Mix Of Car Stunts And Martial Arts<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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The Death Of Paul Walker<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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A Record-Setting Release<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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