Top 10 Times Furious 7 Calls You Back To The Old Days
"Furious 7" provides a fitting big-screen farewell for actor Paul Walker , but there are still so much things we can talk about. With seven films in the franchise, here are 10 of its callbacks, cameos, and references to past movies.
10. Hobbs does love the Hulk
"So now we work for the Hulk? That’s what we’re doing?" Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson) joked when Dom’s team ended up working with Hobbs again in "Furious 6." And what’s Hobbs watching while he’s in the hospital in "Furious 7?" "The Incredible Hulk."
9. Corona remains Dom’s drink of choice
Offered a Belgian brew from Mr. Nobody’s (Kurt Russell) private keg in "Furious 7," Dom’s not interested. Back in The Fast and the Furious, he declared his beer fealty to Brian by telling him, “You can have any brew you want...as long as it’s a Corona."
8. Race Wars is back
It’s Race Wars, back for a second time, where everyone shows up in the desert to race the exact same people they normally race in the streets of Los Angeles.
7. The Rock is dealing with his sweat problem
Everyone else looked fine, but The Rock , for reasons never explained, spent the whole movie drenched in sweat. Maybe it’s all those tight shirts he wears.
6. Jason Statham, the new bad guy
Having your new bad guy be the surprise sibling your earlier bad guy never mentioned (because the screenwriters hadn’t invented him yet) is the standard hand-waving stuff of action movies.
5. Dom is the Drift King
The "Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" ends with a cameo from Vin Diesel, in which Dom rolled into town claiming to have been friends with Han and challenged Sean Boswell (Lucas Black) to a race. "Furious 7" goes back to that scene.
4. Elena’s looking for a new gig
Elsa Pataky, who played Dom’s temporary love interest Elena in "Fast Five" and the beginning of "Furious 6," has what amounts to an extended cameo in "Furious 7." We learn she’s in the market for a new job when Hobbs hands her a letter of recommendation.
3. Dom’s still got a thing for wrenches
It’s a moment the series goes back to in "Fast Five," when he almost smashes Johnson’s head in with a convenient wrench. In "Furious 7," though, Dom gets a new finishing move - causing the ground to crumble with the weight of his street cred.
2. Brian’s kept some of his FBI gear
Brian started the series as an undercover LAPD cop. As he’s gearing up for the big showdown in "Furious 7," he’s shown putting on a bulletproof vest labeled FBI.
1. Dom plays a much tougher game of chicken than Brian
In "2 Fast 2 Furious," Brian and a street racer go head to head while competing for pink slips. When Dom and Deckard do the same thing in "Furious 7," they just ram right into each other - twice - with no hesitation.
