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Fast & Furious: Hobbs and Shaw – Film Review

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Pictured: Shaw, MI6 and Hobbs take in some high culture in the otherwise low brow ' Fast & Furious [Presents]: Hobbs and Shaw . A Universal Release I am a sucker for a good trailer and boy did I fall hard for ‘ Fast & Furious: Hobbs and Shaw ’, a spin-off – well, something’s off – of the ‘ Fast and Furious ’ franchise. A quick re-cap: the ‘ Fast and Furious ’ flicks are about family as well as street car racing, larceny, guys with bald heads and increasingly bold stunt sequences usually involving moving vehicles. Oh, and let’s not forget the celebrity cameos of people like Kurt Russell and Helen Mirren who know better and – wait a minute, that’s a stonking wodge of moolah, what do you want me to do? Like the cars that featured in the early movies, the later episodes got customised with big stars signing up to have a viable pension plan. At a certain point, Dwayne Johnson joined to play Luke Hobbs, the intelligence agent out to bust Vin Diesel’s ‘I say my line