Dwayne and Jason Are the Upside of ‘Hobbs and Shaw’
“Hobbs and Shaw” is a lot of fun, and miraculously stupid.
By Jon Ochiai
Director David Leitch’s “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw” stars Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) as Agent Luke Hobbs and Jason Statham as ‘reformed’ bad guy Deckard Shaw from the “Fast & Furious” franchise. Hence, the expansive convoluted title. “Hobbs and Shaw” is a lot of fun, and miraculously stupid.
In Writers Chris Morgan and Drew Pearce’s nearly incomprehensible story: MI-6 Operative Hattie Shaw, played by Vanessa Kirby, retrieves the deadly CT-17 virus on her mission. Powerful cyborg Brixton, played by Idris Elba, thwarts the operation seeking to obtain the virus, too. To keep the virus from Brixton, Hattie injects the CT-17 capsule into herself. Yeah, really.
Brixton, who rides this high-tech motorcycle, is super strong, bulletproof, and skilled in martial arts. Eteon Corporation created Brixton, who shares a past with Shaw. Basically, he’s invincible. Yet somehow, Hattie uses her smarts to leverage her escape.
Eteon’s cloaked Leader wants to create a new world order, by first erasing the ‘weaker’ elements of the human race.
Now it’s up to Hobbs and Shaw to work together to retrieve the virus, before it goes…
