Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
A; Action
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Idris Elba, Vanessa Kirby, Dame Helen Mirren, Eiza González, Eddie Marsan, Viktorija Faith
Director: David Leitch
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This rather peculiar attempt to resurrect a franchise goes the stereotypical way. There are Fast cars, robotic bikes, several gravity-defying chase sequences, in your face fisticuffs between the two major action heavy-weights who share some abrasive chemistry, family skirmishes, a possible romance in the making and an incredibly idiotic plot that has them going all the way to Samoa to fix the unfixable ( when even the scientist who created it gave up on that)..But isn't that what the fans were expecting anyway?

For most of its runtime, David Leitch's Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw delivers the expected and Dwayne Johnson, in an almost autobiographical subplot turn, gets to do his bit for his country of origin along the way. Thankfully, Leitch and company keep the main characters and plotting intriguingly interesting. There's a supervillain in Black Superman aka Brixton, an agent of an underground military-tech group called Eteon played effectively by Idris Elba, MI6 agent Hattie Shaw (Vanessa Kirby) who happens to be the estranged sister of Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) the enigmatic former spy and Dwayne Johnson as Security Service Agent Luke Hobbs.