Fast and Furious continues to get more outrageous… and fun
The best thing about the Fast and Furious franchise is that it knows what it is. It’s crazy, absurd action sequences that you almost need to turn off your brain to enjoy, but it’s extremely well made and impossible to not have fun watching unless you just over-analyze it. Hobbs and Shaw continues with this trend, introducing their first superhuman trying to destroy mankind as we know it.
The story follows the team-up of two unlikely allies, agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) and assassin Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) as they work together to extract a virus from Shaw’s sister (Vanessa Kirby) and keep it out of the hands of a mechanically enhanced, self proclaimed bad guy (Idris Elba) trying to purge the world of weakness.
And the movie does what Fast and Furious does best: gripping action all the way through. From London to Samoa and everywhere in between, it’s hard to not be entertained by the crazy car chases and the brutal fights. This is especially so once they get to the final showdown, which has one of the most creative and fun brawls I’ve ever witnessed on film in the beautiful landscape of the previously mentioned Samoa.
Where most action movies drop the ball is when the movie moves away from what defines the genre—the action. Hobbs and Shaw remedied this with endless humor between the two titular characters. Despite how much the characters themselves hate each other, you can feel the strong chemistry between Johnson and Statham every time they get the chance to relax and insult each other back and forth with their quick wit. The two are absolutely phenomenal and it made the movie feel better paced and it never lets the crowd get bored.
I really have no criticism of this movie, it did exactly what it set out to do: entertain the fans with a blend of intense, over-the-top action and witty humor. It’s one of my favorite movies this year and it surely sets a precedent for what a quality action movie looks like. I’m not sure how the Fast and Furious movies keep getting better, but I’m looking forward to seeing where the family goes next.
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