'Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw' A Review

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw is an action movie, a spinoff from the Fast & Furious franchise. The movie opens on the a covert military action to capture a dangerous virus, this is interrupted by the self proclaimed bad guy aka Black Superman aka Brixton Lore(Idris Elba) before he can take possession of the virus MI6 agent Hattie Shaw(Vanessa Kirby) injects herself with it and flees. The US and UK government enlist Luke Hobbs(Dwayne Johnson) and Hattie's brother Deckard Shaw(Jason Statham) to track down the virus and unravel the mystery.

Johnson and Statham have a fun insult-heavy chemistry and their partnership is reflected not only in their personalities but in how the approach various situations and in the camera work which is playful and charming if not particularly deep, nor does it need to be. It is wonderful to see Elba as the near undefeatable heavy and he clearly relishes(and excels) at how big he can go. Kirby is a welcome foil and addition balancing out the potentially bro-y central duo. There are a number of fun and exciting cameos and supporting players and overall they all pretty seamlessly work together to pull of this absurd, light, action-packed popcorn flick.

The soundtrack is thumping the action is big and over the top and it delivers on all its promises if not really any surprises. A great mostly mindless summer blockbuster.

See It.