Eavesdropping At The Movies

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw. If there's a clunkier title out there, we'd like to see it. The first standalone film in the Fast & Furious series, and the first Mike's seen at all, while José gave up some years ago, after seeing the first two. But José liked the trailer, and coerced Mike into accompanying him, which means that Mike now gets to force José to do something he doesn't want to one day. But, with expectations at an all-time low, Mike can confirm that he, in his words, "did not hate it". In fact, despite it being obvious trash, with an entire family of awful, lazy jokes - the extended metaphors and puerile insults that The Rock and Jason Statham trade are comedy sinkholes - there's quite a lot that charms us here. While Mike argues for the creativity and execution of the film's action, José expounds upon his fondness for its stars, on the one hand through the humour and enthusiasm of The Rock, who Mike (who writes these descriptions) refuses to call Dwayne Johnson; on the other, Statham's w