Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
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Ever since US Diplomatic Security Service Agent Hobbs and lawless outcast Shaw first faced off, they just have traded smack talk and body blows. But when cyber-genetically enhanced anarchist Brixton's ruthless actions threaten the future of humanity, they join forces to defeat him.
What critics thought
Hobbs & Shaw lands somewhere between guilty pleasure and tedious slog depending on who you ask. Critics generally agreed that Johnson and Statham's bickering chemistry is the film's engine, and David Leitch delivers some genuinely impressive stunt work — but a bloated runtime and thin plotting divided reviewers sharply, with some finding it a breezy throwback screwball action romp and others finding it among the summer's most exhausting blockbusters.
“Fan favorites Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham milk the friction between their characters while teaming up to save the world in this gratuitously over-the-top spinoff.”
Peter Debruge·Variety
“Strip away the meandering exposition and Hobbs & Shaw is an old-school screwball comedy that just happens to feature two major action stars.”
Eric Kohn·IndieWire
“In case of bad-movie emergency, break glass. Over the two-hour-plus running time of the painfully long, exceedingly tedious, consistently unimaginative and quite dopey Hobbs & Shaw, I counted some 13 instances in which humans and/or vehicles went crashing through panes of glass.”
Richard Roeper·Chicago Sun-Times
“While director David Leitch, a former stuntman who helmed John Wick and Atomic Blonde, cooks up some truly breathtaking action sequences and stunts, some moments lose their crisp clarity.”
Katie Walsh·Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Parents guide
- Violence
- moderate
- Sex
- mild
- Profanity
- moderate
- Substances
- mild
- Intensity
- moderate
Genres
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Cast & Crew
David LeitchDirector
Dwayne JohnsonLuke Hobbs
Jason StathamDeckard Shaw
Idris ElbaBrixton
Vanessa KirbyHattie Shaw
Helen MirrenQueenie Shaw
Eiza GonzálezMadame M
Eddie MarsanProfessor Andreiko
Eliana Su'aSam Hobbs
Cliff CurtisJonah Hobbs
Lori Pelenise TuisanoSefina
John TuiKal
Joshua MaugaTimo
Tyler BatesComposer
Chris MorganWriter
Drew PearceWriter
Jonathan SelaCinematographyFast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Ever since US Diplomatic Security Service Agent Hobbs and lawless outcast Shaw first faced off, they just have traded smack talk and body blows. But when cyber-genetically enhanced anarchist Brixton's ruthless actions threaten the future of humanity, they join forces to defeat him.
What critics thought
Hobbs & Shaw lands somewhere between guilty pleasure and tedious slog depending on who you ask. Critics generally agreed that Johnson and Statham's bickering chemistry is the film's engine, and David Leitch delivers some genuinely impressive stunt work — but a bloated runtime and thin plotting divided reviewers sharply, with some finding it a breezy throwback screwball action romp and others finding it among the summer's most exhausting blockbusters.
“Fan favorites Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham milk the friction between their characters while teaming up to save the world in this gratuitously over-the-top spinoff.”
Peter Debruge·Variety
“Strip away the meandering exposition and Hobbs & Shaw is an old-school screwball comedy that just happens to feature two major action stars.”
Eric Kohn·IndieWire
“In case of bad-movie emergency, break glass. Over the two-hour-plus running time of the painfully long, exceedingly tedious, consistently unimaginative and quite dopey Hobbs & Shaw, I counted some 13 instances in which humans and/or vehicles went crashing through panes of glass.”
Richard Roeper·Chicago Sun-Times
“While director David Leitch, a former stuntman who helmed John Wick and Atomic Blonde, cooks up some truly breathtaking action sequences and stunts, some moments lose their crisp clarity.”
Katie Walsh·Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Parents guide
- Violence
- moderate
- Sex
- mild
- Profanity
- moderate
- Substances
- mild
- Intensity
- moderate
Genres
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Cast & Crew
David LeitchDirectorDwayne JohnsonLuke HobbsJason StathamDeckard ShawIdris ElbaBrixtonVanessa KirbyHattie ShawHelen MirrenQueenie ShawEiza GonzálezMadame MEddie MarsanProfessor AndreikoEliana Su'aSam HobbsCliff CurtisJonah HobbsLori Pelenise TuisanoSefinaJohn TuiKalJoshua MaugaTimoTyler BatesComposerChris MorganWriterDrew PearceWriterJonathan SelaCinematographyRent & Buy