Friday’s openings: Fast cars and lost soldiers
Movie openings are slim this weekend, unless you're a fan of big-budget, car-crashing, Vin Diesel-type male posturing. Because if that's the case, then the week's solo mainstream release is for you.
Friday's openings are as follows:
"Furious 7": The latest, and presumably last, edition in a series that began rather promisingly in 2001's "The Fast and the Furious." I say "presumably" because one of the series' original stars, Paul Walker, was killed in a car accident. And digital effects can do wonders, but completely replacing a human actor isn't yet possible. Not in any believable manner, anyway.
And at the Magic Lantern:
"'71": Jack O'Connell stars as a British soldier mistakenly abandoned on the streets of Belfast during a riot. Question is, can the kid remain, ummmm, "Unbroken"?
Time to go see a movie. And to enjoy it.