So What’s the Story?

A spinoff to the world known franchise Fast and the Furious comes the story of two key characters, Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw on a mission to save the world. A virus also known as “The Snowflake” with the ability to liquify your organs is taken by Shaw’s sister Hattie. A genetically enhanced soldier known as Brixton is assigned to recapture the virus and use it upon the world. In this action packed spinoff full of fast cars and epic special effects, Hobbs and Shaw are teamed up to stop Brixton, and stop a whole lot of organs from melting.

Is It Worth Your While?

For a Fast and Furious film, it ranks pretty high, however it does have its issues. Now here are my reasons. First we have the directing by David Leitch, director of ‘John Wick’ and ‘Deadpool 2’. He knows how to make a great action scene, it becomes pretty clear when you see his films, and he finds this way to balance to the laughs and the action together to make a good film. The comedic scenes are directed brilliantly and the action is over the top and just what everyone wants. So for the directing, I give an A. Next we have the special effects. With a 200 million dollar budget, the only way to see this type of film is in IMAX and that is what we did. The effects were realistic, insane, and fills you with adrenaline the whole way through. So for the special effects, I give an A. Third we have the script. The script was hysterical up to a point where you just feel tired of it. Some scenes between the actors were great but then it just gets repetitive and tiring. I will give points for Hobbs and Shaws first meet up scene, I laughed so hard during that time. So for the script, I give a B. Fourth and finally we have the story. Like most Fast and Furious films, the story was dumb, but the story is not the thing you expect to be good in a film like this, but the idea did entertain and was fun the whole way through. So for the story I give a B-. I just want to point out a mistake I discovered in the battle of Samoa. The first 10 seconds of the fight are night, but then you blink and it's daytime, and I don’t mean like early morning, I mean noon, I did go with it given the fact that the next few scenes were badass, but the mistake was just so clear that it was hard not to think about it. Overall ‘Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw’ had kickass directing, great special effects, a hysterical, but tiring script and a dumb but fun plot.

How Was the Cast?

The cast in ‘Hobbs and Shaw’ were well matched and all made committed performances to the film. First we have Dwayne Johnson as Luke Hobbs. Dwayne Johnson can do any type of project, and in this he really let it all out. The stunts, the comedy, the drama everything that he needed to do, he did with style. Him and Jason Statham had excellent chemistry together and altogether just had a great performance. Next we have Jason Statham as Deckard Shaw. Playing a more serious role, Jason Statham managed to produce a handful of comedic chemistry with Dwayne Johnson, as well as provide excellent action sequences. Third we have Idris Elba as Brixton. As a villain he was scary, freaky and gritty. A good addition to the Fast and Furious franchise, and definitely comfortable playing this character. Fourth and finally we have Vanessa Kirby as Hattie Shaw. She could do pretty much any action movie role. Because in this, she was badass. Performing stunts perfectly and using great chemistry with the rest of the cast to make it even better.

Aging ‘Fast Cars’

A practical Fast and Furious film with darker themes, more explosions, gunfire etc. There is some flirting and kissing between characters. There is some language, but there is tons of comedy and entertaining characters to make it perfect for young teens and up.

By: Quinn Marcus