After defeating Owen Shaw and securing their pardons, Dominic Toretto and his crew attempt to return to normal lives in the United States. However, their peace is shattered when Owen's older brother, a rogue special forces assassin named Deckard Shaw, emerges seeking vengeance. Now, the team must execute one last ride to stop Shaw and recover a dangerous hacking device known as "God's Eye."
Information |
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Language |
English |
Country |
United States |
Premiere date |
April 03, 2015 |
Running time |
137 minutes |
Genre |
Action Crime Thriller |
Budget |
$190,000,000 |
Box Office |
$1,515,341,399 |
Crew |
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Directed by |
James Wan |
Produced by |
Neal H. Moritz Vin Diesel Michael Fottrell |
Written by |
Chris Morgan |
Music by |
Brian Tyler |
Cinematography |
Stephen F. Windon Marc Spicer |
Edited by |
Christian Wagner Dylan Highsmith Kirk Morri Leigh Folsom Boyd |
Production Co. |
Original Film One Race Films |
Distributed by |
Universal Pictures |
Official Trailer
The Plot
The Vow in London
In a London hospital, Deckard Shaw walks through a chaotic scene of destruction to visit his comatose younger brother, Owen Shaw. Owen is critically injured following his brutal encounter with Dominic Toretto and his crew. As Deckard stands over his brother, he reminisces about their youth and the path that led them here. Consumed by a need for vengeance, Deckard promises Owen that he will set things right and settle the score. Before departing, he threatens the terrified doctoral staff, warning them that they will face severe consequences if his brother's condition deteriorates. As Deckard leaves, the camera reveals the full extent of his entry: the hospital is in ruins, littered with the bodies of armed soldiers he eliminated just to reach his brother's bedside.
Ghosts of the Past
In the Californian desert, Dominic Toretto attempts to help Letty Ortiz recover her lost memories by taking her to Race Wars, the automotive gathering they invented years prior. The atmosphere is electric, but Letty feels out of place. She enters a race and easily defeats an inexperienced driver, but the victory triggers a rush of fragmented, overwhelming flashbacks. Distressed by the pressure and her inability to connect the pieces, she punches Hector, the race organizer and old friend, before fleeing the scene in a panic.
Dominic later tracks her down at the cemetery, where she stands before her own tombstone. Letty is deeply troubled by the fact that the last fifteen years of her life are a blank void. She confesses to Dominic that his gaze unsettles her; she knows he loves her, but she cannot remember him or properly reciprocate those feelings. Frustrated, Dominic moves to destroy the tombstone with a sledgehammer, but Letty stops him. She insists that she needs to leave him and the crew behind to find herself on her own terms, driving away and leaving Dominic alone in the graveyard.
The DSS Infiltration
In Los Angeles, DSS agent Luke Hobbs struggles to adjust to a quieter life, though he tries to hide his boredom from his partner, Elena Neves. After a workout at the DSS field office, Hobbs finds an intruder hacking into his computer terminal: Deckard Shaw. Shaw is extracting profiles on Dominic’s crew and the location of Han Seoul-Oh. When Hobbs attempts to arrest him, a brutal hand-to-hand combat ensues, wrecking the office. Elena returns and attempts to intervene, but Deckard uses the distraction to detonate an explosive device. Hobbs grabs Elena and leaps out of the shattering window to save her, cushioning their fall as they land on a car below. Hobbs is severely injured in the fall, while Deckard escapes into the night with the intel he needed.
A Message from Tokyo
In Tokyo, Deckard tracks down Han Seoul-Oh during a high-speed chase. He T-bones Han’s car, flipping it and trapping Han inside before walking away as the vehicle explodes, executing his first act of revenge. Meanwhile, back in Los Angeles, Brian O'Conner navigates the slow lane of domestic life, driving a minivan to take his son Jack to school, though he misses the adrenaline of his past.
At the Toretto household, a package arrives from Tokyo addressed to Dominic. As Mia and Dominic discuss Brian's struggle to adjust to a life without bullets, Mia reveals she is pregnant with her second child but is afraid to tell Brian, fearing it will tether him further to a lifestyle he finds stifling. Dominic reassures her that Brian just needs time. Suddenly, Dominic’s phone rings. It is Deckard Shaw, calling from Tokyo to announce his presence. Dominic realizes the danger too late—the package on the porch is a bomb. He screams for everyone to get down, barely shielding Mia as the house is obliterated in a massive explosion.
The Hunter and the Ghost
Dominic visits Hobbs in the hospital, where he meets Hobbs' young daughter, Samantha. Hobbs reveals the identity of their attacker: Deckard Shaw, a former British special forces assassin who was deemed a "unique asset" until he knew too much and became a liability. For the last six years, Shaw has been a "ghost," surviving over twenty assassination attempts by his own government. Officially, Hobbs advises Dominic not to pursue Shaw. Unofficially, he hands Dominic a weapon and tells him simply, "Don't miss."
Seeking answers, Dominic travels to Tokyo to meet Sean Boswell, the new Drift King. After a respectful race, Sean hands over the few items recovered from Han’s crash site, including Dominic’s cross necklace and a photo of Gisele. Dominic reclaims Han’s body and returns to Los Angeles.
The Standoff
At Han’s funeral in Los Angeles, the crew—Dominic, Brian, Roman Pearce, and Tej Parker—mourn their fallen friend. Roman and Tej express anxiety about who is hunting them, but Brian vows that the only funeral left to attend will be Deckard's. During the service, Dominic spots a car watching them from afar. He chases the vehicle through the streets of LA, leading to a tunnel where he and Deckard Shaw face off. In a deadly game of chicken, they accelerate toward one another, crashing their cars head-on.
Dominic prepares to fight, but Deckard draws a gun. Before he can fire, a covert ops team storms the scene, forcing Deckard to flee. The team's leader, a man who calls himself "Mr. Nobody," intervenes. He brings Dominic to a command center and offers him a Belgian ale and a deal. Mr. Nobody explains that Deckard is a shadow who can only be found using "God’s Eye," a master hacking device capable of tracking anyone on the planet. The device, however, is being held by a terrorist named Mose Jakande, who has kidnapped its creator, a hacker named Ramsey. If Dominic rescues Ramsey and retrieves the device, Mr. Nobody will let him use it to hunt down Shaw.
Terror in the Azerbaijan Mountains
Dominic reassembles his crew, and they devise an insane plan to ambush Jakande’s convoy in the Caucasus Mountains of Azerbaijan. The team airdrops their modified off-road vehicles out of a C-130 cargo plane, parachuting onto the dangerous mountain roads below. Roman, terrified, initially refuses to go but is pulled out of the plane by Tej. They successfully intercept the convoy, using armor-piercing rounds and precision driving to breach the defenses.
They rescue Ramsey from her containment bus, but Deckard Shaw arrives to disrupt the mission. The operation turns chaotic as Jakande’s men corner Dominic. In a desperate move to save Ramsey, Dominic drives his reinforced Dodge Charger off a cliff, tumbling down the mountainside to safety. Meanwhile, Brian fights Kiet, Jakande’s ferocious henchman, atop the bus. As the bus teeters over a cliff edge, Brian is forced to run up the side of the falling vehicle, barely leaping to safety onto Letty’s car spoiler in the nick of time.
Skyscrapers in Abu Dhabi
Ramsey reveals that she sent the God’s Eye device to a friend in Abu Dhabi for safekeeping. The crew travels to the Middle East, only to learn that the device—hidden inside a speed drive—has been unwittingly sold to a Jordanian prince who installed it in a Lykan HyperSport, kept in a vault inside his penthouse at the Etihad Towers. The team infiltrates the prince's exclusive party in formal wear. While Tej and Ramsey hack the security and Roman causes a distraction, Dominic and Brian locate the car.
Their cover is blown by the prince's head of security, Kara, and Deckard Shaw, who has tracked them down again. With time running out and no other exit, Dominic and Brian drive the Lykan HyperSport through the penthouse window, launching the car through the air into the adjacent tower. With the brakes failing, they are forced to jump the car again into a third tower. They rip the God’s Eye drive from the dashboard just moments before the multi-million dollar vehicle crashes out of the building and plummets to the ground below.
The Factory Ambush
With the God’s Eye in hand, the crew returns to Mr. Nobody's base. They use the device to track Deckard Shaw to an abandoned factory. Dominic, Brian, and Mr. Nobody lead a tactical team to capture him. They find Shaw casually eating dinner, waiting for them. He reveals that he has forged an alliance with Jakande. Jakande’s forces ambush the team, leading to a firefight in which Mr. Nobody’s right-hand man is killed and Mr. Nobody himself is shot and injured. In the chaos, the God’s Eye falls into Jakande’s hands, and the terrorists escape.
Dominic and Brian carry the wounded Mr. Nobody out of the factory. Mr. Nobody insists they leave him on the roadside for his own medical evac team, urging Dominic to finish the fight without him. The crew regroups, realizing they are now the hunted, with Jakande possessing the ultimate surveillance tool.
War on the Streets of Los Angeles
Dominic decides to bring the fight back to Los Angeles, the only place where they hold the home-field advantage. The plan is dangerous: Ramsey must hack into the God’s Eye to regain control, but she needs to be within two miles of Jakande’s signal. The crew must drive her through the city while evading Jakande’s aerial drone and Shaw’s pursuit. Before the battle, Brian calls Mia. She tells him to survive and come home to their family, finally revealing that they are having a girl.
The streets of LA turn into a war zone. Jakande pursues the team with a stealth helicopter and a Predator drone armed with missiles. The crew plays a high-stakes game of "keep away," tossing Ramsey from car to car to keep her alive while she hacks. Realizing the signal is being blocked, Brian heads to a cellular tower to manually bypass the lockout. He is intercepted by Kiet. In a brutal rematch, Brian defeats Kiet by dropping him down an elevator shaft with a heavy payload, securing the connection for Ramsey.
Street Fight and Air Support
While the team deals with the drone, Dominic confronts Deckard Shaw atop a public parking garage. They abandon their guns and engage in a violent street fight, using wrenches and pieces of debris as weapons. Meanwhile, Hobbs, seeing the destruction on the news, breaks out of his hospital room. He commandeers an ambulance and drives it off a bridge, crashing it directly into the Predator drone, destroying it and saving Letty and Ramsey from certain death.
With the drone down, Ramsey successfully hacks the God’s Eye and shuts it down. Jakande, desperate, turns his helicopter’s heavy artillery on Dominic and Shaw. Dominic stomps on the floor of the parking garage, causing a section to collapse and sending Shaw falling into the depths of the structure. Dominic then gets back into his Charger, revs the engine, and launches the car off the roof at the hovering helicopter. He hooks a bag of grenades onto the chopper’s skids mid-air before his car crashes into the concrete rubble below.
Resurrection
Hobbs spots the grenade bag hanging from the helicopter and fires his revolver, detonating the explosives. The helicopter explodes, killing Jakande instantly. The crew rushes to the wreckage of Dominic’s Charger. They pull his unconscious body from the car, and Brian begins CPR. Letty cradles Dominic’s head, tearfully begging him to wake up. She reveals that her memories have returned—she remembers everything, including their secret wedding in the Dominican Republic. She tells him, "You can't tell someone they love you." Dominic gasps for air, waking up. He looks at Letty and replies, "It's about time."
The Long Goodbye
In the aftermath, Deckard Shaw is taken into custody. Hobbs escorts him to a CIA black site prison, buried deep underground. Hobbs promises Shaw that if he ever manages to dig himself out, he will be waiting on the other side.
Later, the crew gathers on a beach in the Dominican Republic. They watch from a distance as Brian plays happily near the water with Mia and Jack. Dominic, Letty, Ramsey, Tej, and Roman observe the scene with a bittersweet understanding. They realize that Brian has found his peace and belongs with his family, effectively retired from their dangerous lifestyle. Dominic stands up to leave without saying a word. Ramsey asks if he is going to say goodbye, but Dominic smiles and says, "It's never goodbye."
Dominic drives down a coastal highway, but at a crossroads, Brian pulls up alongside him in a white Supra. Brian smiles and asks, "Hey, thought you could leave without saying goodbye?" The two drive side-by-side as a montage of their history together plays, showcasing the bond formed over the years. Dominic’s voiceover muses that no matter where they are, whether a quarter-mile away or halfway across the world, they will always be family. The road diverges, and Brian’s car splits off toward the sunset. The screen fades to white with the dedication: "For Paul."
Top Cast
- Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto
- Paul Walker as Brian O'Conner
- Jason Statham as Deckard Shaw
- Michelle Rodriguez as Letty Ortiz
- Jordana Brewster as Mia Toretto
- Tyrese Gibson as Roman Pearce
- Ludacris as Tej Parker
- Dwayne Johnson as Luke Hobbs
- Kurt Russell as Mr. Nobody
- Nathalie Emmanuel as Ramsey
