For fans in need of a “FAST & FURIOUS” fix this summer…
You’ll have to wait until next May when number nine in the franchise finally opens.
Until then there is a new action-packed SPIN-OFF coming your way this weekend. And it sure has a lot of the elements of the actual series.
It’s kinda like when “ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY” sidestepped that franchise three years ago.
Hence “FAST & FURIOUS PRESENTS: HOBBS & SHAW”.
Here federal agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) reluctantly partners with former British special forces assassin-turned-mercenary Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham.)
Their target, cyber-genetically enhanced anarchist Brixton Lore (Idris Elba) who has gained control of an insidious bio-threat able to actually alter humanity forever!
Here I am trying to make sense of the plot, but this movie isn’t about story development. And it certainly makes no pretense along those lines. Instead ‘Hobbs & Shaw’ is basically your summer whoopass action entry that definitely delivers on that front.
Matter of fact it over-delivers to the point where the action never stops and it all seems to run together.
Add a good dose of smack talk to the body blows and the film offers more than you probably bargained for. Of course, more doesn’t always make it necessarily better. But one has to wonder how they ever pulled off some of those terrific stunts and fight sequences. Its choreographed violence is executed extremely well—like when they lasso a helicopter from a moving truck and, and, and……….
I think you get the picture.
All in, “FAST & FURIOUS PRESENTS: HOBBS & SHAW” should wet your appetite and ultimately hold you over until May 22, 2020 when the ENTIRE ‘Fast & Furious’ gang returns for NO. 9.
My GRADE for the spin-off: B-
