Furious 7, the seventh installment of The Fast and the Furious movie franchise, reached movie theaters here about three weeks ago.

The movies are silly, brainless fun, and I have seen just about all of them now. (Aside from Tokyo Drift, which lacks the key stars, aside from a cameo by Vin Diesel late in the movie.)

Furious 7 was released in the UAE about three weeks ago, and with Abu Dhabi the scene for a chunk of the middle of the movie … you’d think pretty much everyone here would have seen it already. But not me.

Even today, three weeks or so after the local debut, about 100 people were in the big room at Wahda Mall’s theater complex for a 12:45 p.m. showing. I’d bet many of them were seeing it again.

So, the Abu Dhabi parts?

I’ve already forgotten why the Furious crew needed to go to Abu Dhabi. I guess the universal spying device had been sold/given to “a Jordanian billionaire” who was holed up in a suit in one of the new Etihad Towers, down on the corniche, and pretty much across the street from Emirates Palace — the over-the-top hotel with the gold-dispensing ATM in the lobby.

A couple of things to note.

1. The movie shows dozens of women in bikinis sorta wandering across the exterior shots. However, women in bikinis in a public area frequented by men pretty much doesn’t happen here. (Though it does, in Dubai; Abu Dhabi, far more conservative.)

2. The Jordanian billionaire thing was interesting. I’m not sure the world has a Jordanian billionaire, and if it does … he may be annoyed that he is connected to a party on the umpteenth floor frequented mostly by scantily dressed women, body guards (including Ronda Rousey), a floor on which he keeps his zillion-dollar sports car (if I were a car guy, I’d know what model it was) under lock and key, as well as the spying device. I’m guessing the movie makers got squeamish about it being an Emirati billionaire running that sort of party — though the world has lots of Emirati billionaires.

3. Local fans were interested in the manner of the escape of two of our heroes, who drive the sports car out the window of one of the Etihad Towers and crash it through a window of another tower … and then go out another window and into a third tower. The conceit being that any car can gather enough momentum from a 40-yard start on a marble floor to carry it across a gulf of 50 or more yards — without plunging directly to Earth — a car not being known as a particular air-worthy vehicle.

But it is a waste of time to pay too close attention. Just focus on the “vroom, vroom” and the perfect landings through windows (amazing, they didn’t hit a structural member; but Dom probably was somehow steering).

Before and after were a few scenes out in the desert. It is supposed to be in Abu Dhabi, and we know that because two guys are leading camels along a road.

Anyway, Abu Dhabi loves to be in movies. Almost as much as does Dubai.

4. The other item of interest, beyond the mayhem and speed, was how the producers would handle Paul Walker‘s character. The Southern California native, 40, contrived to get himself killed in a ridiculous, one-car accident in Santa Clarita, a Los Angeles suburb. (Walker wasn’t driving, but his friend at the wheel may have been doing 100 mph when he lost control.) This happened on November 30, 2013, when the movie wasn’t quite done, and they managed to complete it by using a couple of his brothers as stand-ins, and by lifting (it appeared to me) some footage from previous Furious movies. And, at the end, the Walker character rides into the sunset — though he is not explicitly said to be dead.

It is, however, a sad moment for fans of the franchise. I was sitting next to one who was in tears as the Walker character veered off on a winding road leading to the Pacific.

So, yes, my pop culture for the day. A little behind the curve.