Hobbs and Shaw Movie Review

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Hobbs and Shaw comes to us from the director of Deadpool - and atomic blonde and stars Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham as those characters this is a spin-off to the Fast and Furious films and in this film, Idris Elba plays a cyber genetically enhanced supervillain who's really really bad there's a virus involved a mi6 agent a big strong guy who's really brutish and a smaller strong guy who's very suave and that's Hobbes and Shaw take my money now give me a second do you like this film do you think this the film is dumb yeah it's really bad but like it's actually really entertaining that's Hobbes and Shaw see you just have to know exactly what you're getting into with this movie and if you've seen the progression of The Fast and Furious franchise leading to this it shouldn't be that much of a surprise that this movie is insane absurd makes no sense is essentially a cartoon and for all of those reasons it can be very entertaining with the introduction of Fast Five these films got better that film still being my favorite out of all of them but they got sillier and things got weirder and eventually, I think we're gonna have a space movie I really do like why wouldn't we I went into this film hoping that it would be an action movie that reminded me of the hugeness of 1980s action films the 1990ssilliness without caring about the plot with current modern-day technology at their disposal and that's what they did this movie is essentially what it should be it's incredibly stupid though and there are aspects of it that feels very thrown together it's also far too long it's like 2 hours and 15 minutes granted the past few Fast and Furious movies have been about that length as well here you can start to feel that runtime in certain sequences in the fact there's an action sequence that basically ends the second act and me legitimately thought the movie was over 

I was ready to get up and go to the bathroom and drive home and I was like oh shit there's like an entire another the sequence I really thought the movie had ended because it seemed like they were just throwing everything at the wall and using everything that this film sets up in his story but then the third act took a u-turn  with basically nothing that this story had actually set up and so it felt very out of left field sort of like an attempt to just wrap the series back into its gigantic theme of the family again even though this the movie didn't really seem like it was going for that that I would say is my the biggest actual issue with this movie if I'm going to seriously objectively look at Hobbes and Shaw the movie where the rock and the transporter punch things really hard which by the way I got to say I love these guys they're fucking awesome we'll talk more about them in a second that's really the biggest issue I have with this movie is that it felt kind of thrown together the structure didn't always work it didn't feel very cohesive it sort of felt like here's a big action set piece and then we'll talk a little bit about what just happened and then we'll have another one then we'll talk a little bit more about that then we'll have another one maybe we'll trade some insults along the way and then we'll have another one it didn't really feel like the story was actually a story it just felt like a bunch of excuses to have action set-pieces which are essentially what I thought this movie would be and to be completely honest that's what the people who go to see this movie are going to want they're not going to want anything other than the rock and Jason Statham drop-kicking shit 

I mean realistically and what reality do we expect anything else out of a fast and furious spin-off movie the best aspect of this movie for me is the chemistry between the rock and Stathamthey work marvelously together my favorite scenes in the movie are not the action scenes they're the sequences in which these guys just trade insults and they stare at each other and they basically put each other down and try to one-up each other with their insults and some of they are actually really fucking hilarious a few of them got me to belly laugh which I didn't expect there's a reason they took these characters with these actors and decided to put all this money behind the spin-off with them it's because they do work really well together this is basically a buddy cop movie and us don't get a lot of those anymore and so Universal has taken this giant bill dollar the franchise that people love to go and spend their money on and said you know what we're just gonna make a buddy-cop movie and I'm fine with that so let's talk about those action sequences because there are tons of them and for the most part they're really impressive although they do begin to feel a little stale after a while there's some repetition a lot of turning to punch turning punching same basic angle capturing it in a nice shot but nothing terribly creative with the action scenes, unfortunately, the best thing they do with the action in this movie usually comes from the things of the environment that the characters can use there's one scene where the rock and Statham have a glass window in between them and they both have to get through this area both sides have different opposition for both of them and there's a lot of comedy in that scene that I thought was really funny obviously this movie is absurd it is ridiculous things happen that would never happen I said it earlier but this really is a cartoon it's a live-action cartoon no doubt there's a sequence towards the end involving a convoy of cars, all interlocked and all they have to do to interlock them is like touch their bumpers and then it just like magic happens and there's a fucking helicopter and it's Just insane okay and I was smiling 

the whole time because this movie is very self-aware it's extremely self-aware you can call it mindless but it's only mindless because of things that are happening don't make sense but the movie knows that and especially with various cameos that the film has won't spoil it for you they have specifically chosen people that will enhance the fun aspect of this movie they know exactly what they're making by no means is this meant to be taken seriously Idris Elba is awesome as this crazed supervillain with like a metal fucking spine for God's sakes okay I went into this movie expecting to see some dudes punch people and tell jokes and that's exactly what I got it's gonna give you what you want more than likely if you know exactly what you're getting into still you can pick this movie apart if you reel wanted to from a script' perspective the storyline is shit I mean it's kind of being cycled plot for a Mission Impossible -and if you've seen that movie you know that involves a virus and a carrier of said virus and the plot like I said is really just an excuse to basically sew a thread through the action scenes without those action scenes this movie falls apart but gratefully the chemistry between the rock and Statham the surprisingly funny banter between the two and just how well they work together, that's what brought it home for me and I feel like the majority of people who go to see this movie know exactly what they want out of it and it's going to give them that still I would like to see a film like this with these characters with a more cohesive the narrative that just didn't feel kind of thrown together because I really do think it could be something kind of cool I'm gonna give Hobbs and Shaw a b-minus this is one of those films where if you told me that you hated it and it was the worst film you saw in 2019 I would be like okay yeah I get what you're saying and if you told me I loved it it was everything I wanted the rock punched people and Jason Statham dropkick people and I fucking loved it I'd be like okay yeah I get that you just have to kind of know what this is and if you don't like these kinds of films don't even waste your time with it you know it's not even worth that part of your life the two hours and 15 minutes of your life that you'll waste watching it but if you like movies like commando and those other types of movies you want to kick your feet up and have some popcorn then I don't really see these bothering anybody guys thank you so much as always for watching look forward to more reviews very soon and if you like this you can comment right here and get stuck mine eyes