The Fast and the Furious: Hobbs and Shaw

[Lencho01]

The Rock Calls ‘Hobbs & Shaw’ His Most Challenging Film

 

[samsnee]

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Some spoilery descriptions below...

When the first trailer for Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw was released, io9 was delighted to see that the franchise had finally gone full sci-fi as Idris Elba’s villain, Brixton, had genetically enhanced himself. In a new trailer shown at CinemaCon 2019, the character took that enhancement one step further. He gave himself a brand new nickname: “The Black Superman.”

The bold name drop came in the middle of an extended look that explained a bit more of what the actual story of Hobbs & Shaw is, showcased a ton of new action, and made the film seem more thematically connected to the previous eight films in the series.

Deckard Shaw’s (Jason Statham) sister Hattie (Vanessa Kirby) has stolen a virus from Elba’s Brixton that can wipe out the world’s population, and he wants it back. This results in Hattie begrudgingly asking her brother for help—help that Shaw’s mom (Helen Mirren), who appears to be in prison, tells him to give her. This leads to some kind of massive action scene in what looks like a nuclear power plant that gets blown to ****, and Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) says they need to get off the grid.

To do so, they go to the island where Hobbs’ family is. Johnson said these scenes are the first time in history a film will explore Samoan culture to this level. When Hobbs arrives, though, his family doesn’t exactly seem happy to see him because he usually brings trouble. Which is, once again, exactly what happens. He tells his family he needs guns and cars, and we’re hit with a few of those slick, Fast & Furious shots featuring all kinds of cool, expensive cars. However, when Hobbs opens the gun cabinet, they’ve all been replaced by traditional spears and wooden weapons. It seems his mom sold the guns and they’ll have to use these instead.

Next, Hobbs and his brothers are performing a traditional Samoan dance as they prepare to go to battle with Brixton, who has found them. Using those traditional weapons, Hobbs, Shaw, and the family run at Brixton’s technologically enhanced men and all hell breaks loose. During the presentation, Johnson called out this moment of dance blended into an action scene as an example of how Hobbs & Shaw was going to honor the Fast & Furious themes of family and while also giving the film more gravitas.

That battle then seems to transform into the biggest set piece in the footage. Brixton is in a helicopter which Hobbs and Shaw try to bring down with tow cables from a truck. (They attach the tow cables by using NOS to shoot the truck off a cliff and Hobbs attaches it mid-air in slow motion, of course.) However, the truck is too light for the helicopter and it begins pulling the truck into the air. So then a second truck comes in, with Hobbs’ brothers, and they attach cables to the first truck. But even that starts to get pulled into the air. So a third truck comes in and, well, you can begin to see where this is going. Cars attached by tow cables to a helicopter, which then starts to take the trucks into the air, off cliffs, etc. It looked like one of the biggest Fast & Furious set pieces yet.

It wasn’t the only set piece, though. Some other action scenes in the trailer include both Hobbs and Shaw fighting nameless bad guys in stark white hallways with a window between them. So, as they smash the bad guys, they watch, judge, and joke with each other during their fight. Once that’s over, at the end of each hallway are facial recognition systems, which Hobbs unlocks by smashing a bad guy’s face into one of them. Shaw, though, can’t unlock the door, so he continues to bash the bad guy’s face into the panel again, and again, and again.

There’s also a scene of two of them in some kind of fighter jet, bickering as usual, when Hobbs pushes Shaw’s eject cord while he’s mid-sentence and he laughs.

 

[Symbiotic]

Trailer 2 arriving on Thursday.

 

[samsnee]

Hopefully more focus on the characters and less action. I think the chemistry will be a better draw than just another loud over the top action scene.

 

[Hunter Rider]

I didn't realize they'd shown anything at Cinemacon, that big sequence with the chopper sounds great and I can see the ejector seat bit closing out the new trailer on Thursday.

 

[Greens]

So the trailer is out... and it's almost 4 minutes long. What the **** are they thinking?

 

[StarLord]

I did laugh at the ''Access Denied'' part, but that is a long ass trailer.

 

[terry78]

Thinking it's such an event people will sit through it.

 

[samsnee]

I feel like I pretty much saw the whole movie. They gave away too much. They should have kept the whole "goes back to his family in the third act" for the theaters.

 

[#root]

That trailer just kept getting dumber and dumber and dumber.

...I’m in.

 

[Hunter Rider]

 

[samsnee]

I also hope they at least give some plausible reason story-wise why Hobbs wouldn't ask Dom for help again since he did it in Fast 6 to catch Owen Shaw.

 

[Mysteryman]

So the trailer is out... and it's almost 4 minutes long. What the **** are they thinking?

Apparently , they are thinking "Tell them EVERYTHING!"

 

[1627523]

This is going one of the most fun movies of all F******* time! This trailer was awesome as hell.

 

[Silvermoon]

Watched the trailer.... I think this is going to be FUN! (might actually see this one on the theater... all the other F&F movies I've waited for home release on)

 

[dark_b]

years ago people would laugh and make fun of a movie with so over the top action.

Rock holding the helicopter with chains. who is genetically enhanced? Him or Elba?

 

[Sithborg]

Apparently , they are thinking "Tell them EVERYTHING!"

Let's be honest here, this isn't a deep movie. The movie is the crazy action. The plot is paper thin and is only a vehicle for action and character interactions. Its a dumb movie, but I am in.

Old pacific islander weaponry vs Black Superman? Sure, why the hell not.

 

[terry78]

Universal suit 1: Disney is being very secretive with their Avengers campaign strategy. They're barely showing anything and are playing it very close to the vest with spoilers.
Universal suit 2: Release a four minute trailer for Hobbs and Shaw showing every major wow moment.
Universal suit 1: But I just told you...
Universal suit 2: I SAID RELEASE A FOUR MINUTE TRAILER!

 

[DarkKnight88]

Who cares about plot with something like this. The Fast Furious movies are terrible too. It’s the actors having fun and the action we go for. It’ll make a ton in China.

 

[harlequinade]

Cannot wait, this looks like so much fun!

 

[KaijuDude1992]

Yeah this still looks like a hell of a lot of fun, especially seeing the dynamic between The Rock and Statham and as well as some of the ridiculous, over the top action on screen here, but I really wish they didn't show so damn much in this 4 minute trailer. I mean honestly, I don't even see why it was necessary.

 

[harlequinade]

Statham is so awesome when he gets to be less serious. He should do comedies again, the fact we are not getting Spy 2 is a tragedy

 

[Lencho01]

The trailer felt like something studios put out after the film's already been out in order to eek out a little bit more profit from people who didn't see it yet.

 

[Hunter Rider]

I'm pretty sure that trailer is what they showed at Cinemacon, all of the footage described was in there. It's 30 years since Tango & Cash and this looks like a tribute to that film.......on steroids!

The interaction between Rock and Statham looks on point again and I like the scene in the jet and the one in the McLaren where Rock just smashes the dude into the wall as they drive past.

Vanessa Kirby looks badass in this and seems to have plenty of action, is that cockney twang in her accent just for the movie or is that how she usually sounds when not doing uppercrust characters? It was good to also see Eiza Gonzalez, although I get the impression her role is smaller.

The stuff on the Island looks like the highlight of the film visually, some of the stuff at the nuclear plant has some ropey CGI, but the stuff in Hawaii looks great, I would have hidden more of that. The big set piece with the trucks and the big chopper looks awesome.

 

[Lencho01]

Yep, just read an article saying this was what they showed at CinemaCon.