The Fast & The Furious Presents: Hobbs & ShawMovies

[Eunos_Cosmo]

Looks like this will be another entry in the now-anonymous F&F series. I know these movies have become a cultural phenomenon, especially from #4 onwards, but I think they have become progressively less interesting as well.

#1 & #3 remain my favorites. They somehow, despite the senseless plots and hamfisted acting, manage to convey a feeling of place, time, and youth culture in a way that the post-Drift movies don't even attempt. I still genuinely enjoy these two movies for the sense of a connection to a place and time. I feel the same way about them (somewhat) as I do about Polanski's Chinatown and Yate's Bullitt. Both the films and the cities depicted in them feel real and lived in.

The later movies jump around frantically from location to location, never really using the cities in which they are filmed for anything more than background imagery. Why was Dom in Havanna? I don't remember. It didn't matter.

Anyways, that's my take.

 

[LeGeNd-1]

#2 and #3 were the best for me, because they were actually about cars and racing. Never really cared about the story or how campy it is. Growing up they were the only car related Hollywood movies that made it big (relatively speaking), and gives petrolheads like us a chance to relate to the wider audience. Since they went the action/heist movie route, #5 is the only one I would rewatch on occasion. Everything else is good fun for first watch, but becomes generic over time. I'd watch this one too, but I don't expect it to reinvent the series like #5 did. Who knows though, maybe from now they will split the series in two. F&F H&S will deal with all the guns, fighting and actiony stuff, while the mainline F&F will go back to its street racing roots.

 

[Famine]

The Fast & The Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

That's a hard pass.