Having left the "Fast & Furious" template in the rear-view mirror ages ago, this spinoff revels in its super-spy trappings and playfulness, relying on the individual and combined charms of Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham, facing a technologically enhanced super-villain — the term cyborg is never used — in the equally impressive form of Idris Elba.The rest, frankly, is pretty much incidental, as Johnson's Hobbs and Statham's Shaw, after a brief introduction showcasing their special skills and clashing styles — one prefers pickup trucks, the other sports cars — are reluctantly thrown together to neutralize a bio-weapon with the potential to destroy humanity. The plot includes a third key player in the form of Shaw's sister (Vanessa Kirby, a veteran of "The Crown" and "Mission: Impossible — Fallout"), a formidable MI6 operative who is central to stopping the threat.Director David Leitch ("Deadpool 2") approaches the movie with a sense of irreverence, which includes strategic cameos that enliven the film and augment its comedic quotient.Those scenes serve as a welcome relief from the relentless bickering between the leads, who spend a little too much time hurling creative insults at each other, such as Shaw calling Hobbs "She-Hulk" (see, he's big) and Hobbs returning the favor by dubbing him "Frodo" (he's smaller). The macho posturing ventures into more specific comparisons, with dialogue seemingly written for (if not by) teenage boys.The action sequences are abundant, including several breakneck chases, dazzling explosions and opportunities for Johnson and Statham to brawl. Those scenes are shot in a quick, kinetic fashion, though there's a somewhat numbing repetitive quality to many of them, the principal exception being a jaw-dropping skirmish that involves pursuing bad guys down the sheer side of a skyscraper.When taking a breath from its pyrotechnics, "Hobbs & Shaw" also squeezes in an overt message about the importance of family and healing old rifts, providing a detour that lets Johnson incorporate celebrating his Read More – Source
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