This review will be brief.
As action movies go, its OK. It’s worth the price of admission and fun to watch on the big screen. On the other hand, it isn’t something that I’m clamoring to watch again.
The Fast and Furious movies have always required suspension of disbelief in their brand of putting awesome stunts above little nit picky things like laws of physics and gravity and so on. Probably the most unlikely suspension though is that the Fast and Furious team accepts Shaw (Statham) as one of their own even though in a previous film, he openly murders one of their teammates in a gruesome way. I guess eventually that becomes something we’re supposed to forget and frankly, I think most people do because it is silly to expend too much brain power on these films.
Hobbs (The Rock) a government agent who sometimes chases and sometimes works with rhe F and F crew, teams up with Shaw to help save Shaw’s sister (Vanessa Kirby) who has been implanted with a capsule containing a virus that could destroy the world. Once a pair of awesome badasses, now they kind of look like old bald men going off on an adventure with some young chick paid to act like they are interesting.
Idris Elba picks up a payday as the villain but we won’t hold it against him.
There are some great scenes and it is fun and at one point, The Rock pulls a helicopter down with a chain. Like I said, it’s fun and worth a ticket but it’s not something you’d want to see again and again.
STATUS: Shelf-worthy.
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