Review of Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019) by Jluis_001 — 04 Aug 2019

When Fast and Furious started things were about cars. The next two sequels changed the mold but cars remained the strong element.

After the fourth film all that was forgotten and Brian O'Conner, Dominic Toretto and all their gang went from being mechanics and thieves to being super special agents.

Ok I understand, this is a business and people enjoy it and for those reasons the whole franchise changed and because of it this spin-off was born from the characters of Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham who became quite popular within the franchise.

This film doesn't fool you and tells you frontally: This is a full in your face action story and even gets into the field of science fiction.

You certainly know what this films is offering and yet despite all the grandiloquence of its staging, it never ceases to be an empty show.

Even when the film should not give you rest from all the action chaos, it does so with many interludes that deal with a disastrous comedy.

I say it sincerely, the chemistry between Johnson and Statham may be quite good in the action terrain but their comic timing is appalling. The dialogues and the jokes burn for how pathetic they are. Childish as ****.

Ryan Reynolds and Kevin Hart have small interventions and they without much effort are much funnier.

Vanessa Kirby does enough with what the story allows her.

The script sucks, understand that from the first minute.

The story is as thin as its own conflict and the little that advances its ''mysterious narrative'' with the villain behind the curtain is only to immediately sell you a sequel that will undoubtedly exist.

Hobbs & Shaw has quite good action sequences and in that they work quite well, that's where the film excels. Even considering the great implausibility of the majority of those scenes, they don't stop being entertaining but that doesn't compensate for a whole film and never will do, although obviously everything will continue to depend on your own tastes and expectations.

If you want to turn off your brain for two hours and enjoy entertainment that demands nothing, you have an option here.

Yet, Idris Elba deserved better.