“Genocide, schmenocide,” growls Idris Elba through a mouth of silver-capped teeth in “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw,” a line that pretty much summarizes where the film stands in rel…
’s Shaw entered the picture in the next film as the vengeful older brother of Luke Evans’ character, a suave loner and cocky Mockney mercenary who switches allegiances however best serves the series’ ridiculously convoluted plots.
You may enter a film like this one believing you had some grasp of how gravity works, or the human threshold for pain, or what constitutes a good movie, but the experience is so exhilaratingly mind-altering, so radically untethered from terra firma, you basically have to readjust your basic understanding of everything you know to be true and just go with the flow.
This, my friends, is where the franchise that began 18 years ago as a glorified street racing movie. Now, none of the characters from the 2001 original remain, but the guy who launched his acting career as “The Scorpion King” and one of the hoods from Guy Ritchie’s stable are running around — from London to Chernobyl to Samoa — trying to stop robots from taking over the world.
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