It's been 14 years and a jaw-dropping $2.8 billion in worldwide box office since "The Fast and the Furious" debuted in the summer of 2001, with the live-action cartoon movie factor revved up from title to title, to the point where the cars in "Furious 7" perform feats the cars in "Cars" couldn't even do, and the humans brush off collisions and crashes that would put Spider-Man on the disabled list. The real people of the story, in all their shaggy, scrappy, determined ways, are so much more interesting to watch, especially their youthful leader filled with wild ideas, Mohammad."Cars can't fly! Cars can't fly!"-Paul Walker's Brian to Vin Diesel's Dom, while the two of them are in a car that's, well, flying, in "Furious 7." (That's no fault of Alvarado and Chelsea Rendon, who plays Martinez, just a hazard of blending documentary and fiction.) The re-enactments are filmed in a rather basic and tame manner, derivative of other depictions of prison stories we've seen in film and TV. The young activists, including the real Marco Saavedra and Viridiana Martinez, who infiltrate the women's section of the detention center, are so much more fiery and fascinating than their actor counterparts. The issue, of course, is the real thing is that much more exciting than the parts of the story that are acted out. We don't need to see a talking head interview to tell us "this is how the conversation went," because with the re-enactment, we can see how it all went down.
The filmmakers studiously label every real person and every actor (sometimes to emotional and narrative effect), and often intercut real phone calls on one side with a re-enacted side of the conversation to build story momentum. The film is uniquely structured, blending interviews and documentary footage of the machinations outside with a staged re-enactment of the events inside, played by actors.
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