Breaking away from the main body of theFast/Furious特许经营，Hobbs & Shawunites the two most likable people from the franchise into a gloriously dumb spin-off meant to curtail further infighting with Vin Diesel. Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham blow off theFast/Furiouspopsicle stand and set up their own joint, along with director David Leitch (Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2), who brings a sense of style not seen since James Wan.Hobbs & Shawfeels like a Leitch movie and a F/F movie without taking anything away from one another. It has brutal fights and eye-popping car chases courtesy Leitch, and also the dumbest f-cking world-building ever imagined thanks to itsF/FDNA.Hobbs & Shaw总垃圾和完全的喜悦。
Hobbs & Shawis smart about the ways in which it is dumb. This movie, written by Chris Morgan and Drew Pearce, understands that all the plot needs to do is put The Rock and The Stath together and let them argue like an old married couple while they save the world. The particulars don’t matter, only the circumstances do. To this end, the Macguffin is a supervirus, which is one step up from a doohickey that controls all the computer things. To personalize the stakes, the Macguffin is literally injected into Hattie (Vanessa Kirby), an MI-6 agent who turns out to be Shaw’s sister. This is a smart decision because it gives the story some emotional heft, and it fully integrates Kirby into the action. She is on screen as much as Johnson and Statham, she has just as much to do, and she makes as many contributions to the success of their plan. F/F is a terrible franchise for women, who are disposable if your name isn’t “Michelle Rodriguez”, and even Rodriguez hasthreatened to walkif she doesn’t get more to do.Hobbs & Shawfixes theF/Fwoman problem by 1) not killing any women, and 2) treating Kirby as important as Johnson and Statham.
WhereHobbs & Shaw是辉煌stupid is in one flashback scene about when Shaw and Hattie grew up together. Statham is 52. Kirby is 31. They can play brother and sister, but there is no universe in which they are believable as siblings who grew up together, unless that universe is in the Bermuda Triangle, where time has no meaning. Shaw and Hattie sharing a childhood is such a blatantly stupid thing to insist on, it made me laugh out loud.
Hobbs & Shawis also smart-dumb about its villain. Idris Elba plays Brixton, an enhanced human who works as an assassin for an Illuminati death cult. This is fantastic. Hobbs & Shaw abandons all pretense of being about racecar drivers who go vroom to save the world, and just becomes a flat-out superhero movie in which the villain is basically Bilderberg. But to keep the story manageable, Brixton is given a history with Shaw, which, like Hattie, serves to keep the stakes feeling immediate and personal.
Another common problem withF/Fmovies is their self-importance—that is entirely removed from Hobbs & Shaw, which knows it is stupid and is entirely unembarrassed by how dumb it is. Everyone is having a blast, the jokes work, the plot is f-cking ridiculous but it does track, and the action is great.Hobbs & Shawis everything aFast/Furiousmovie should be, with none of the grandstanding. And yes, they do talk about family, but for once it doesn’t feel like a marketing gimmick. There is a nice little theme about reconciliation tucked into all the zany automotive hijinks.
Hobbs & Shaw很自豪能成为一个大愚蠢的动作电影，但它得到了细节。Johnson和Statham有惊人的化学，Vanessa Kirby是F-CKING山雀，应该得到她自己的行动特许经营权，Idris Elba显然是球，并且有几个惊喜的外表，同时出现了巨大的特技铸造和有效的元笑话。这几乎是令人笑的Hobbs & Shawis. The humor in F/F movies is almost entirely incidental—Vin Diesel takes himself way too seriously to be the butt of any jokes. But not Dwayne Johnson and DEFINITELY not Jason Statham, who is now fully leaning into self-parody. This is a very funny movie, which makes the two hour and fifteen-minute runtime feel relatively spry. Hobbs & Shaw is indefensibly dumb, and it is a LOT of fun.
