Whatever this is, its not a movie its a product more deserving of a road test than a review. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw is the ninth chapter in the Fast & Furious series (the gross is over $5 billion across the previous eight films) and its first spinoff. Meaning if youve never seen a F&F movie, the street-racing franchise with Vin Diesel that dates back to 2001, you wont be confused it wont matter a damn. Meaning Hobbs & Shaw is a well-oiled machine that puts two supporting charmers from the series Dwayne Johnsons Luke Hobbs, a DSS agent and single father, and Jason Stathams Deckard Shaw, a rogue military operative in the center ring and lets those fan-favorites rip. Meaning, how can you resist?
You wont. Never mind that Hobbs & Shaw drags on for 134 minutes and has more family subplots than Downton Abbey. Director David Leitch (John Wick, Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2) keeps the action and the comedy at full velocity. Hobbs and Shaw insult each other like high-school mean girls, mostly about Shaws short Hobbit legs and Hobbs resemblance to a giant tattooed baby. Throw in Idris Elba, having a blast as Brixton, the black Superman, a former Brit agent whos been carved up into a cyber-villain and ordered to capture a virus that can terminate half the globe. Then theres the dazzling Vanessa Kirby (so fine and feisty as Princess Margaret on The Crown) as Shaws Mi6 agent sister Hattie Helen Mirren plays their criminal mastermind mom who has just stolen said virus by injecting it into her body.
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Getting the virus out without killing Hattie or all extant life on earth thats the plot cooked up by screenwriters Chris Morgan and Drew Pearce. We all know where this is going like you didnt think Hobbs would get flirty with Shaws sister? and cheers to the movie for not even pretending anything in it is remotely new. This is my fourth time saving the world, says Hobbs with a sigh we can all share. Oh, there is a climactic visit to Hobbs (and Johnsons) native Samoa, but there will be no more spoilers except to say that The Rock does a killer Samoan war dance.
Johnson and Statham invest Hobbs & Shaw with a surreal silliness thats infectious. Catch Hobbs lasso a chopper and drag it down from the sky with one bulging arm or Shaws fight choreography in the sensational corridor scene. This movie definitely has its moments. The problem is it keeps repeating them stunt, banter, stunt until they wear out their welcome. Furious 7 managed to mix hot action with genuine heart. It can be done if theres something more than the box office calling the shots. Hobbs & Shaw thinks it can get by just pretending. It probably can. Mindless fun is good enough in a pinch. But what happens when movies follow Brixtons example and slowly, inexorably turn into cyborgs? Road-test ready, for sure, but untouched by human hands.
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