Maybe I'm alone, but something just bothered me about Furious 7 and it really impacted how I felt about the whole film (Spoilers).

Paul Walker died in real life and did so before filming was done on this film. Now, I understand that you're not going to rewrite an entire script because of what happens to an actor during filming but the ending to Furious 7 made no sense to me. The voice over during the send-off is not Vin Diesel talking about Paul Walker. It's Dominic Toretto talking about Brian O'Conner. Dom's voice-over about Brian was almost exclusively in past tense (just like it would be if you were talking about a friend who had died) and yet, Brian is STILL ALIVE in the movie. They should have killed him off because to me, what's the point of the speech if Walker's character is just alive on the beach at the end of the movie?

This is a film franchise that is on fire right now. Even with Walker's death everyone involved has to know that Fast/Furious 8 is coming just because of how much cash it brings in. With than in mind, I believe Brian O'Conner is the most vital part of of the Fast & Furious franchise (he's been in more of the movies than any of the other characters). Killing his character off would be a ballsy, albeit stupid, thing for the filmmakers to do. But in my opinion, it is so much worse to just have the ending we got and then in Fast/Furious 8 just have the main character of the series missing!

Here's what I'm trying to say. They should have killed off Brian O'Conner in Furious 7. If they would have done that, the "we'll always be brothers" ending would have meant so much more. The next installment (which is absolutely inevitable) will suffer because they did not give O'Conner a proper goodbye. Everyone here is saying how emotional the sendoff was and I'm over here thinking "they are literally giving a eulogy to a character that is alive and well."

As a huge fan of the franchise, I think they really screwed up the ending and it really made me lower my personal rating for the film (I give it a 6/10 because the plot was so all over the place and the villains were overshadowed by a overdone love story but that's a discussion for another time).