If you are a fan of the series films of Fast & Furious, surely that you cannot miss the opportunity to watch Hobbs & Shaw.
The blockbuster Fast & Furious is a live-action film which achieved a lot of success and brought the producer with multi-billion dollars since the version Fast Five in 2011.
Fast & Furious was produced with inspiration from the original film Point Break. In which, Diesel is the starring who plays the role as the leader of a gang of outlaw racers. And in later versions, Paul Walker plays the role as an undercover cop with the tasks of infiltrating the world of underground street racing in Los Angeles.
Hobbs & Shaw revolves two main characters: Luke Hobbs (played by Dwayne Johnson) & Deckard Shaw (played by Jason Statham). It is incredibly silly with quite fun circumstances at about its first 30 minutes.
The director even pushes the film deeply into James Bond and the science fiction world. Thereby, a lot of fans comment this beginning is quite dawdling and unattractive.
The movie starts with the appearance of Brixton Lore (played by Idris Elba). He is a cruel ex-spy created by a shadowy organization named Eteon.
On behalf of this organization, Brixton Lore has a task to hijack a virus sample with the codename Snowflake in London.
However, finally, he was killed by Hattie Shaw played by Vanessa Kirby. She is an MI6 agent and the estranged younger sister of the ex-murderer Deckard Shaw (played by Jason Statham) and Owen Shaw.
Although Brixton frames Hattie, she still keeps running. Then the CIA quickly presents at the crime scene and recruits Shaw and his enemy - Luke Hobbs (played by Dwayne Johnson) to follow her.
In which, Luke Hobbs is a loyal agent of the colossal Diplomatic Security Service Luke Hobbs (played by Dwayne Johnson).
Johnson and Statham play the role of the same character designers in bald men since the first time they face to face in what seems to be the most conspicuous & luxurious backside of the CIA.
Both these two actors base a lot on their designed alpha-male characters when director David Leitch explains about the big and little contrast between two. They are put side by side in split screens & parallel corridors and in comparison to the villainy Elba.
Meanwhile, being the co-director with John Wick, Leitch was famous for his own movie Atomic Blonde, but he did not show his talent the best in this new product.
Earlier, he proved that he can helm a series of stylish actions. But for Hobbs & Shaw, he mostly contributes to the aspects of visual symmetry, designer lighting, and a more irreverent/inappropriate approach to the scenario.
There is a similar situation between his previous movie, Deadpool 2 and Fast & Furious. Both are impressing with the staging of destructive, loud, and effects-laden products, but it, unfortunately, does not include the director’s grasp.
Inviting famous casts for the later versions is one of the directors' secret weapons. This enables the films to maintain switching points of view amid the more and more humorous proceedings.
But in this version, the movie comes with fewer options because Vin Diesel (plays the role of Dominic Toretto) and other ones in the crew are all absent.
In the previous versions, famous brands like Hondas, Mitsubishis, and Nissans all appear in the movie like the stock in trade.
But in this version, it is replaced by heavy-duty products of military-industrial tech. In which, there is only a repeating scene might be cut, allowing Johnson to pretend to drive a truck before it becomes chaotic.
And at least, Leitch also knows how to borrow outstanding details from the best products. It is a quite shameless crib from the movie Mad Max: Fury Road. He got the feature in an attack by helicopter vs. a chase by the hot rod. Also, he even copies frantic dolly-ins & close-ups of the director George Miller. However, the results are less appealing.
In the last scenes, characters talk about the importance of family while they were looking into the sunset.
Both Hobbs and Shaw finally reunite with their family. Hobbs and his single-dad go back to Samoa.
Meanwhile, Shaw tries to reunite with his younger sister. He followed the thoughtful notes of his incarcerated mother (played by Helen Mirren), who is a career criminal.
The movie is pushed to the climax with Hobbs' sincere declaring, brings it more energy: “Brother, you may believe in machines, but we believe in people.”
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