Yanking its two titular ensemble players out of the Furious fray and into their own reluctant-brothers-in-bickering-arms project, Hobbs & Shaw might just be the perfect summer blockbuster: it’s got high-octane action, crazy stunts, big laughs, a touch of sci-fi and two of the best – and best-kept-secret – uncredited A-list cameos in recent memory. Director …
It is an unabashedly unapologetic, ridiculously fun, high-octane, automotive extravaganza that, from the get-go, fires on all cylinders and never really slows down long enough for you to catch your breath. I mean, usually, by the time a film franchise somehow manages to crawl its way to an eighth installment, no one’s having a good …
To spare your eyes, I won’t actually do that (much). But, man, when it comes to bang for your action-film-loving, movie-going buck, the payoff doesn’t get much bigger than with this seventh installment of the increasingly outrageous street-racing franchise. How can I put this into context? Okay, you know that scene in the very first …
This time around, gearheads Dom (Vin Diesel) and Brian (Paul Walker) are yanked from their blissful, post-life-of-crime Canary Islands hideaway by their former lawman nemesis Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) for a very important mission: assemble the team (including Fast faves Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Sung Kang and Gal Gadot) to thwart criminal mastermind Shaw (Luke Evans) …
The man clearly knows how to smell a stinker a mile away, likely aided by Sandra Bullock’s 20-20 hindsight essay, “The Importance of the Words `No, Thanks’ and Other Things I Learned From Speed 2: Cruise Control.” But fear not, race fans, for Paul Walker is back as fugitive-turned-undercover-cop Brian O’Conner, who’s enjoying the illegal …
OK, OK, let me say say it outright: I think Lucas Black is adorable. Call me surprised to be totally enamored of this actor’s thick-as-molasses Texas accent (especially since a certain President has equated that drawl with being as dumb as a bag of rocks), not to mention his excellent scowly eyebrows. WAY cute. Black …