The Furious 7 Ending is Perfect

The Fast & Furious movies are sort of a mixed bag, all of them have something fun to offer, but at the same time are swimming with problems, Furious 7 is no exception, the story is utter crap, the pacing drags and there is not nearly enough Dwayne Johnson. But the movie does something well that very few movies do, it's tribute to it's main star. Paul Walker died halfway through filming which caused them to do some serious script changes and reshoots in order to compensate and personally they handled it really well, the plot was terrible, but in no way was it because of anything to do with Walker's character (Brian).

*Spoilers Ahead*

A major story point in the film is the idea of "one last ride" that Brian needs one more massive thrill before he can settle down with his family, and he gets just that, after taking on the biggest case of their life, Brian finally gives up the life of an anti-hero and settles down with his wife and kids. As him and his family play on the beach, the rest of the crew look on with pride and Dom (Vin Diesel) gets up and drives away without saying goodbye, only for Brian to catch up with him at a stop sign and go for one last ride together. As Dom narrates on the importance of family as Wiz Khalifa's 'See You Again' plays in the background and the two go their separate ways with Brian driving off into the sunset, followed by a montage of Walker's best moments and then ending with the simple phrase "For Paul".

There have been plenty of movies where the main star has died halfway through filming and the film has to compensate for it, and end it in memorial for them, but Furious 7 takes it one step further by nearly breaking the 4th wall in a tribute to him, but with this feeling of "we don't care, Paul was our friend and our brother, he deserves this". The recurring theme in the Fast & Furious movies are that of family, and you get that both on and off screen, if you see the actors reactions to Paul's death, you know these people were legitimately friends and saw each other as family. This movie had one goal in mind, to pay their respects to Paul no matter the cost. They gave his character the happy ending he deserves and paid tribute to Paul, a man who meant the world to them and they didn't care about how the rest of the movie was, just as long as they could get this one scene right. And they did.

-Danny