Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)

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	Year of first release: 2019
	Director: David Leitch (Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde)
	Actors: Dwayne Johnson (Rampage, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle), Jason Statham (Transporter 1-3), Idris Elba (Thor 1-3, Pacific Rim)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action, Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 06.02.2020, VOD, 40" TV screen.
Synopsis: When a super-soldier (Alba) tries to steal a deadly virus, both the FBI agent Hobbs (Johnson) and outlaw Shaw (Statham) are contacted to help with the case.
Review: I couldn't watch this movie in the theater when it was released because I was not yet up to date with the Fast and Furious franchise and this is a spin-off of it. Now I am (since The Fate of the Furious), and can tell I didn't miss much in the theater because the movie is not too good. Still, it could have been fun on a big screen. The movie does fit in where the franchise is going: mix of Action and jokes, ultra high-tech gadgets fitting over-the-top villains (nice Idris Elba) and shadow criminal organizations (a-la James Bond's Spectre), and a few car chases of courses. Putting those two main characters together in a spin-off was a good idea in fact, but the problem is in the story and the execution, which unfortunately has the same flaws as the main franchise but amplified. For example the jokes are a bit too long and insisting, the Action a tad more than too much, and especially the story and the logic behind the character's decisions don't make much sense. Also a good opportunity was wasted by not using more the character of Air Marshall Dinkley played by Kevin Hart. To its advantage, the movie has a couple of breathtaking action scenes, the chemistry between the main duo (well, trio), and the good idea to split the movie half/half between the birth country of each of the two, even if it doesn't make much sense either in the end. Now I just have to wait for Fast 9 which has just been announced delayed by a year....
Rating: 4 /10