Director David Leitch
Starring Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Idris Elba
Rated M
Score 2/6

Lawman Luke Hobbs and outcast Deckard Shaw form an unlikely alliance when a cyber-genetically enhanced villain threatens the future of humanity.

The Fast & Furious movies will always be fun to watch in a ‘I reject your physics and insert my own’ kind of way and it won’t surprise if The Fast & Furious franchise becomes a 10 movie saga, though judging by the quality of this spin-off film its going to seem like a very long road that we are going to have to go down and they are going to have to do something amazing to wipe the taste of this movie out of my mouth. Now Hobbs and Shaw is still a watchable yet groanworthy movie, Idris Elba’s performance as Brixton Lore is probably the best part of the movie (I think I might have cheered him a couple of times instead of Hobbs and Shaw. It probably had something to do with the motorcycle he rode.) I kind of enjoyed Eiza González’s performance and it will be interesting to see if her character returns in the sequel, it was good to see Joe “Roman Reigns” Anoa’i get a role in his first feature film.




Now, big dick jokes are a fine comedic tradition. However, when such jokes are regularly flung by two characters at each other (Hobbs and Shaw) with remarkable frequency. Now, yes, the jokes could be dismissed as banter but you cannot help but wonder is there a scene coming when the two put an end to the jokes with the use of a measuring tape or that there is some romantic tension that will addressed between the pair in the sequel, because the two characters did come across as being different sides of the same coin. The biggest disappointment was how Vanessa Kirby’s character Hattie Shaw was written, it was great that the character was a bad ass just like her brother and not a screamer. The problem is that the 72-hour clock on the fate of Hattie seemed like a non-issue even though the fate of the world was supposed to be at stake.