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Movie Summary - The Fast and the Furious

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?The Fast and The Furious and Furious 7 are great movies, but the action sequences, vehicle inventory, all-star cast, and plot make Furious 7 better than its prequel, The Fast and The Furious. It’s very true that these 2 movies have many similarities but it’s their differences that make Furious 7 the better of the 2. One review of Furious 7 states, “The director, James Wan, sends cars repeatedly airborne and seems himself to marvel at the results; the movie’s real subject is the stunt work,” (Brody, 2015). Furious 7, directed by James Wan, took you on a thrill ride across the desserts of Abu Dhabi back to Los Angeles. The fight scenes between enemies and heroes as well as cars jumping from building to building made you sit on the edge of your seat. Cars operating at high speeds dodging explosions from missiles fired from enemy drones made your adrenaline pump uncontrollably. Just when you think Wan couldn’t possibly go any further, he surprises you with some other sequence you could have never imagined. The Fast and the Furious on the other hand was more of the plot setting film. The movie, the first part of this 7-part saga, told the story of how Brian O’Conner played by Paul Walker and Dominic Toretto played by Vin Diesel came to know one another. The Fast and the Furious’ action scenes were mere race scenes that usually lasted no more than 2 or 3 minutes. One critic for Globe and Mail states, “When characters are not racing at breakneck speed, the movie as a whole ceases to move; doesn't manage to deliver the wild ride it promises” (Lacey, 2001). What this movie lacked in action, it more than made for with setting up the major plot to a great 7-part saga. With out this prequel the setting or plot to this series would have never existed. This movie allowed the audience to meet its main characters and allowed an environment to which you could learn every characters back-story. Another thing that makes one of t

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