The Reel: Fast and Furious presents Hobbs and Shaw

If a Fast and Furious movie is what you want; a Fast and Furious film is what you'll get. 

I finally got round to watching Hobbs and Shaw and let me tell you Maina it was everything that I thought it was going to be. What I'm saying is, if you're going into a Fast and Furious movie expecting depth as opposed to a suspension of belief, then you're in the wrong place.

The story is, the Rock and Statham are two of the most excellent world savers in the world, and are thus called upon to save the world from a deadly virus that can be used for biological warfare. It sounds like every other James Bond slash Bourne Supremacy plot, right? (remember when Fast and Furious was about cars?)

But what they did was turn it into a fantasy movie - which it already was, with all the stunts and stuff. But like, a level higher.

Spoilers start here:

If I'm frank with you, I watched this movie because The Rock and Idris Elba are in it, mainly. Drool-worthy factors apply. About an hour in (Yo, this movie is two and a half hours long!) I felt like I had sold all reasoning in my body for entertainment purposes. There was no rhyme and reason to the sequence of shoddily thrown together events. The alpha male banter between Rock and Statham was so tiring. The apparent effects were over the top - the real reason we are here, I suppose - and the number of times the Rock said brother should be turned into a drinking game. In real life, or rather, in real movie life, no one is sitting through that. But that's why the movies are made, right?

Watch it if you have two and a half hours of your life to look at sculpted bodies fighting Idris Elba after a building has dropped on his head and he still has a perfect face.