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Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

2019

David Leitch

Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Idris Elba, Vanessa Kirby ...

5.4

8,890

Action. Sci-Fi Lawman Luke Hobbs and outcast Deckard Shaw form an unlikely alliance when a cyber-genetically enhanced villain threatens the future of humanity.. A spinoff of The Fate of the Furious, focusing on Johnson's US Diplomatic Security Agent Luke Hobbs forming an unlikely alliance with Statham's Deckard Shaw.

	Author	Review
United States	Dave Trumbore Collider	"When you go to a 'Fast & Furious' movie, you expect three things: Fun, physics-defying action, and family dynamics (...) 'Hobbs & Shaw' absolutely delivers on all three counts"	POS
United States	Wesley Morris The New York Times	"It has a good hip-hop soundtrack and the sort of coherent editing that you need for something with this much juxtaposed bone-breaking. The weightlessness, however, extends to a plot that makes no sense"	NEU
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Crazy action, and lots of it (...) The film's highly elaborate physical scenes and innumerable effects reflect the money said to have been spent, and they mostly pay off in action that's both visceral and amusing"	POS
United States	Stephanie Zacharek Time	"Johnson, Statham and Kirby are all wonderful (...) But somewhere around the midpoint of 'Hobbs & Shaw', the action sequences become so elaborate that they start to weigh the movie down"	NEU
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Summer’s best guilty pleasure (...) Johnson and Statham inhabit a higher plane"	POS
United States	Scott Mendelson Forbes	"The action is far less 'believe your eyes' than it should be for this series, but it works thanks to the sheer movie star charisma on display, both from its lead actors and periodic cameos."	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"[It] delivers the goods one would expect (...) It’s only in the final third (...) that you realize you don’t give a damn about anything that’s happening (...) But by then you probably won’t care (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4 )"	NEU
United States	Dan Mecca The Film Stage	"Things get a bit long in the tooth as the finale drags, but there’s enough goodwill to push past the finish line."	POS
United States	Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"Leitch seems to know how to set up his outrageous set pieces, then get out of the way often enough to let his stars do what they need to do: Joke, chokehold, kiss, and smash until the helicopters come home."	POS
United States	Brian Truitt USA Today	"It’s a Frankenstein’s monster of action-hero testosterone – though the highlight is a woman – that gets lost trying to be its own thing (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"`[It] is fun, but it’s so ludicrously over-the-top, it makes the comic-book logic of your average Marvel movie look reasonable by comparison (...) It is actually a highly accomplished cinematic feat"	POS
United States	Hoai-Tran Bui SlashFilm	"It delivers to us what we want in a movie where Johnson and Statham are filmed 85% of the time in slow-motion: good dumb fun."	POS
United States	Adam Frazier First Showing	"For those who are looking to wring the last bit of escapism out of the summer movie season(...) [it] has enough star power and spectacle to make you forget about reality for a couple of hours (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Unexpectedly fun (...) The movie is a bit overextended, and the action runs out of steam in the final battle, but it delivers some bangs and laughs for your buck (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"A lumbering spinoff that lacks the series’ over-the-top élan and ludicrously adrenalised set pieces. Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham spend a lot of time tediously barking at one another"	NEG
United Kingdom	Clarisse Loughrey The Independent	"Complete nonsense but disarmingly pleasurable (...) This film is proof that those behind 'The Fast and the Furious' franchise have long stopped caring about anything but providing momentary joys (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Gabriella Geisinger Digital Spy	"[It] is just over-the-top enough to be fun (...) Somehow it all works, and feels distinct enough from other 'Fast & Furious' movies (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Donald Clarke Irish Times	"Neither Johnson nor Statham has much to work with, but the banter is awful (...) They need to get back to basics (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
Ireland	Deirdre Molumby entertainment.ie	"For what it is, audiences should be satisfied – it has an awesome cast, slick action, and offers high octane entertainment (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Alan Corr RTÉ	"It’s not without a few laughs and there are some well executed ding dongs (...) but at this stage an oil change and a NCT might be in order for the 'Fast and Furious' franchise (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
Ireland	Graham Scannain	"It’s competently directed but there’s no sense of personality (...) Plus the film is easily 45 minutes too long (...) Ultimately 'Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw' is a pedestrian affair (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
Australia	Jake Wilson The Age	"It might be argued that plot and character aren’t that important in a film where pure action is the goal. But Leitch is a long way from his strenuously stylish spy thriller 'Atomic Blonde' (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
Australia	Daniel Rutledge Flicks	"A major disappointment (...) There was magic in this franchise for a while, but its gas tank of goodwill is slowly being drained and Hobbs & Shaw pushes it dangerously close to empty (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
Australia	Anthony O'Connor FilmInk	"An awe-inspiringly stupid movie, but in a way that manages to be enjoyable and engaging"	NEU
Australia	Andrew Peirce The Curb	"Desperately obnoxiously bland (...) I couldn’t help but wish I was being sold something."	NEG
Canada	Barry Hertz The Globe and Mail	"So for now, I’m going to go lay down, chuckle at the film’s inventive ridiculousness and try not to think too hard about anything at all (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
Canada	Sandy Schaefer Screen Rant	"[It] is acceptably diverting for an August blockbuster, but doesn't bode so well for Universal's desire to spin-off multiple 'Fast & Furious' characters into standalone films (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
Canada	Andrew Parker The Gate	"For what it’s aiming for, 'Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw' is summertime action movie bliss (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
Canada	Norman Wilner Now Toronto	"The movie delivers the constant, ridiculous action they’ve come to expect (...) It just doesn’t hit the same level of transcendent ridiculousness that distinguishes the franchise’s best chapters.(…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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