Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw Review

Evaluation:

7/10

Jeter:

Dwayne Johnson as Hobbs
Jason Statham as Shaw
Idris Elba as Brixton
Vanessa Kirby as Hattie
Helen Mirren as Queenie
Eiza González as Mrs. M
Eddie Marsan as teacher Andreiko
Eliana Sua as Sam
Cliff Curtis as Jonah
Lori Pelenise Tuisano as Sefina
John Tui like Kal
Joshua Mauga as Timo
Joe Anoa'i as Mateo
Rob Delaney as a Loeb agent

Directed by David Leitch

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw Review

Summary:

When an MI-6 operation goes wrong, Hattie finds herself accused of murdering her colleagues and is on the run with a deadly nano-virus in her blood. To make matters worse, she is being sued by Brixton, a terrorist agent from Eteon, who has benefited from technology that makes her incredibly powerful and fast. He wants to recover the nano-virus and does not let anything get in his way.

Once the CIA has discovered the threat, she calls Hobbs to find Hattie. But there is a problem. He still has to team up with Shaw to find the dishonest agent and collect the virus. Shaw has his own motives for hounding Hattie – it's his sister.

Hobbs and Shaw soon find themselves racing around the world to stop Brixton, foil the plan of the terrorist organization and save Hattie. But everything is in the workday of the two bickering heroes.

Fast & Furious presents: Hobbs & Shaw is rated PG-13 for its prolonged sequences of action and violence, its suggestive materials and some strong terms.

What worked:

If you liked one of the previous ones Fast and furious movies, you will probably appreciate that. Even if you did not like them, you can still enjoy them. He has all the popular elements of his predecessors – fast cars, beautiful women and supreme action. But this film takes the series in a new direction of the spy genre and adds a good dose of humor to the mix to give it the feel of the beginning of a brand new franchise. It's like a comic Impossible mission.

First of all, this film is based on the charm of the cast. Dwayne Johnson returns in the role of Hobbs and is as good at comedy as at action. Jason Statham is back too. He is perfectly badociated with Johnson and both offer lots of laughs and satisfying punches together. Idris Elba plays the mean Brixton and he feels more than a match against Johnson and Statham. The Elbe continues to excel in this role. He is able to play more sophisticated characters, but I'm glad he chose to do it. It brings the right mix of arrogance and threat to performance. Vanessa Kirby could easily be eclipsed while Hattie rubs Hobbs and Shaw. Yet she still manages to capture the public and make him love. Between that and his role in Impossible mission, she badured her heroine status on the big screen. There are also a number of other big cameos in the movie. I will not spoil a few, but I can mention the appearances of Eiza González in the role of Mrs. M and the return of Helen Mirren in the role of Queenie.

Director David Leitch has an incredible experience as a stunt coordinator for everything 300 at The matrix more his work on the John Wick movies, so you expect that the action in this movie is first rate. You would be right. From the opening scene, the action starts immediately and does not give way to the credits. It's probably too much action, but I'm not complaining. There is a memorable car chase through London, a battle against a power station exploding in Russia and the final battle in Somoa was making fun of the caravan. If you are a fan of action movies, you will want to see it.

As strong as the action is, the comedy is also remarkable. From the moment Hobbs and Shaw went to the screen, laughter started. As already mentioned, Johnson and Statham have excellent comic chemistry. But their interactions with all the other characters in the film make you laugh too. Hobbs has good times with his brothers and his mother in Samoa. Hattie has fun moments with Eddie Marsan playing a Russian scientist. The fact that all these secondary and tertiary characters contribute to generating laughter brings the film as a whole to a higher level.

What did not work?

As fun as Hobbs & Shaw is, he has flaws. First of all, it's a bit long. At 2 hours and 15 minutes, it seemed like it could have been 30 minutes shorter. One thing that could have been reduced is the constant quarrel of the pair of titles. They generate some good insults here and there, but their verbal sparring begins to feel repetitive and tedious.

Although it was a "Fast & Furious Presents:" movie, the parts where she felt rather like this series and less like her own movie were the ones where he felt the weakest. These films are known for physics defying stunts. Where this film had these moments in the middle of a more realistic action, this is where it was the most idiotic. See the trailer with the train of cars pulling a helicopter for a great example. It was a little silly.

I also have the impression that the trailer has yielded most of the film. There are almost all the scenes of laughter or action in the trailers and commercials. It was like there was little to discover at the theater.

The final result:

Fast & Furious presents: Hobbs & Shaw is like kinematic fast food. It's not always the highest quality, but it's perfect. If you like action movies, comedies, Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham or Deadpool 2 then it will be something you have to see on the big screen. It's the perfect summer popcorn movie.