“You’re my sidekick.”

From Hobbs & Shaw.

When a MI6 mission to retrieve a deadly virus is attacked by super soldier assassin, Brixton (Idris Elba), the only survivor of the MI6 team, Hattie Shaw (Vanessa Kirby), has no option to keep the virus out of Brixton’s hands but to inject herself with it before fleeing.  As Brixton and the tech company that created him search for Hattie, they spread the lie that she’s a rogue agent who stole the virus for her own gain, so now Hattie finds herself a wanted terrorist.  As Brixton leads an army of high-tech soldiers after Hattie, CIA agents (Ryan Reynolds and Rob Delaney) recruit DSS agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and Hattie’s older brother and disgraced ex-MI6 agent Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) to find Hattie.  While Hobbs and Shaw both want to find Hattie and save the world from the soon-to-activate virus, the men cannot stand working together which proves problematic when they realize Hattie and the virus are tied together until they can find a way to remove the virus from her bloodstream and deactivate it.  Both men settle into a reluctant, uneasy alliance when they learn from the scientist who created the virus (Eddie Marsan) that the only machine capable of extracting the virus and is stored in the heart of the facility that turned Brixton into a super soldier.  Hobbs, Shaw, and Hattie must fight their way across Europe and eventually to Hobb’s estranged family (including Lori Pelenise Tuisano, Cliff Curtis, John Tui, and Roman Reigns) in Samoa to keep Hattie safe until they can find a way to deactivate the virus before Brixton can get it.

This spin-off installment in the Fast & Furious franchise features two favorite characters from the other films while also introducing some exciting new characters with the never-underestimate-her Kirby and Edris’ love-to-hate villain.  Johnson and Statham hilariously carry their polar-opposite roles in a way doesn’t seem overplayed.  The story manages to add to the series while also standing strong on its own; the action, driving, and fight scenes are impressively captivating and almost non-stop.  Full of action, laughter, and adrenaline, Hobbs & Shaw is everything that a summer blockbuster should be.

| Rated: PG-13 | Running Time: 135 minutes |Genre: action/adventure |

||Family Viewing||Cursing: 4* of 10|Nudity: 0 of 10|Sexuality: 0 of 10|Gore: 2 of 10

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