Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

The repartee between the leads is painfully awkward and unfunny. The air marshall provided the first smile, 60 minutes in. $200 million budget, much of it CGI, yet the action did not excite. I really wish I picked Crawl instead.

If you love OSTs then you will love this one. Even Idris Elba is singing. As for the film: it is just pure entertainment! Hobbs and Shaw have to work together to get the pretty sister of Shaw out of trouble and away from black superman Idris Elba, who is amazingly cool in his performance as a villain. The movie has absurd action sequences which would make James Bond change his profession to a mathematician. The chemistry between Statham and Johnson is electric and funny. I am not going to say anything about the cameos, they are just hilarious. Great to see on a weeknight or a weekend or during Easter, Xmas, NYE, Summertime. Preferably on a big screen. 10/10 for the successful fan fiction attempt.

Like I said, it's not a masterpiece, and it certainly has some problems, but the movie knew exactly what it needed to be and what it needed to do and it did it well. Statham, Johnson, Ilba and the rest of the cast all did a pretty good. The action is over the top but entertaining and exiting. The movie was also pretty self aware and wasn't as arrogant as the other F&F movies. And I loved the choice to make a F&F movie with such a bizarre and over the top plot. At some points the movie got a little to repetitive and cliche for me, and some of the jokes and skits were a little bit weaker than others, but like I said this movie is not the one made to be a masterpiece, or to be analysed for messages or deeper meaning, its just a dumb summer movie but a really good one at that.

This was the first fast and furious movie I have watched and I found it hilarious. Despite the intimidating voice of Jason Stratham, his role with Dwayne Johnson was perfect and definitely added the humour to the movie.

The Rock is just way too self-aware. He's heading to B-movie land fast but I guess he's made enough money to live comfortably before he gets there. He does the same thing in every movie, showing off his muscles, working out, flashing trademark facial expressions, bringing up his Samoan background and heritage, it's just obnoxious.

Most people under 20 would probably not believe how this franchise started out. How did it get from an FBI agent investigating a car tuner to becoming a spy franchise? It's not even a good one because it just rips off better movies. I was making a list during the film, it was embarrassing.

Jason Statham turns in his reliable phoned in performance, no more and no less. The man takes zero risks! Vanessa Kirby for some reason decided to go from a fantastic role in a great spy franchise in Mission Impossible to slumming in this low-grade trash heap. This is really the best she could do? Why not call Marvel and ask them for a job? Anything but this! Idris Elba has really disappointed me, from settling for a minor supporting cast role in the Thor movies to phoning it in in every movie he's in. The last time this man has been forced to actually act was The Wire. His acting abilities went down with Stringer Bell in that Baltimore condo. It's sad.

I have no idea how critics gave this great reviews. It's just bad and uninspired. A new low for the Fast and Furious franchise. Worse yet, they don't ever want to stop making these movies. It's crazy.