Everything seems to be looking up for Dominic Toretto. He's still rich from this team's Brazilian adventure, no longer wanted by the law, and he has the formerly-believed-dead love of his life back. Heck, his best friend and his sister even got hitched and gave him a nephew. All is roses!
Unfortunately no good deed goes unpunished and taking down international gangster Owen Shaw has put Dom and his team in the sights of Owen's older, meaner brother Deckard. An elite special forces agent gone rogue, Deckard announces his presence by murdering one of Dom's friends (who we actually already saw die in the third film of the franchise ... the Fast and Furious chronology is a tad odd) and trying to explode Dom and his entire family.
Naturally, Dom growls something about mi familia and we're launched into another two hours of explosively over-the-top superheroic antics where everyone's superpower is "cars". Unless they're played by Dwayne Johnson, in which case their superpower is "I'm the Rock".
Furious 7 caps off what is probably the best run of films in the franchise (everything from the 4th film to this one is great, gonzo fun). Jason Statham is a fun antagonist, the original crew is still all together (actor Paul Walker unfortunately died while the movie was still filming, making this no longer possible), and they haven't quite yet reached the point of over-stuffing that arguably begins to creep in with number eight.
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