Fast and Furious 7
Pretty much exactly the movie you'd expect, for good and for ill. It'd be better without the embedded music videos with scantly clad women dancing in stereotypical "sexy" ways. Nonsensical plots, and zero acknowledgment of the larger implications of the McGuffin, which is weird for such a "street crew" as the Toretto Gang is supposed to be. On the other hand, by the end of the sixth movies they are all multimillionaires with contacts at the highest levels of international law enforcement, so...
Somebody should write (probably somebody has already written) about how Dom's focus on family has been functional to his slow shift from a renegade ready to hate cops to basically the leader of a rogue self-financed paramilitary strike force with strong ties with the worldwide powers that be. It's not that he has changed his view, it's that his view has always been agnostic to who has or wields force and power, except as to whether it's wielded against or helping his family. He's ruthlessly apolitical in that sense.
Of course, the Doylean explanation is that the current political environment is still in favor of small groups that are highly organized, well-funded, technologically sophisticated, and free from any legal oversight when they restrict themselves to burglary, but anything that hints at larger capabilities for violence needs to have them be subject to the powers that be (which are also highly organized, well-funded, technologically sophisticated, and free from any legal oversight).
Somebody should write (probably somebody has already written) about how Dom's focus on family has been functional to his slow shift from a renegade ready to hate cops to basically the leader of a rogue self-financed paramilitary strike force with strong ties with the worldwide powers that be. It's not that he has changed his view, it's that his view has always been agnostic to who has or wields force and power, except as to whether it's wielded against or helping his family. He's ruthlessly apolitical in that sense.
Of course, the Doylean explanation is that the current political environment is still in favor of small groups that are highly organized, well-funded, technologically sophisticated, and free from any legal oversight when they restrict themselves to burglary, but anything that hints at larger capabilities for violence needs to have them be subject to the powers that be (which are also highly organized, well-funded, technologically sophisticated, and free from any legal oversight).