Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Universal Pictures | Release Date: August 1, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
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Mixed or average reviews based on 54 Critic Reviews
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30
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21
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJul 31, 2019
“Hobbs & Shaw” is witty and mischievous, full of surprise and invention, and a total blast. Read full review
80
EmpireKambole CampbellAug 1, 2019
Statham and Johnson hold even the faltering moments up through sheer charm, their chemistry never better than when the film lets them lean into the slapstick of two macho doofuses having to work together. Read full review
80
The TelegraphEd PowerAug 1, 2019
For an action movie to gear-shift between thrilling and comedic everyone must be in on the joke. The absurdity of Hobbs & Shaw is certainly not lost on Idris Elba, having fun as thinly-sketched baddie Brixton Lore. Read full review
75
Film ThreatAlan NgAug 2, 2019
Hobbs & Shaw is an action film in every sense of the word. You’re meant to check your brain at the door, shove your face with popcorn, and have a good time. Why would you expect more? This isn’t Shakespeare! Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzAug 1, 2019
So for now, I’m going to go lay down, chuckle at the film’s inventive ridiculousness and try not to think too hard about anything at all. It’s what Hobbs and Shaw would want. Read full review
75
LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenAug 1, 2019
I laughed a great deal at the bad-boy banter during Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw. I also thought the action stood up alongside anything else in the franchise. But the thing I enjoyed the most about this riotously ridiculous movie is that way it functions as a near-brilliant exercise in cinematic parallelism. Read full review
75
UproxxVince ManciniAug 1, 2019
It’s not that Hobbs & Shaw attracts dumbness so much as inspires it. You watch it with your mouth dangling half-open, chuckling like Beavis And Butthead, and that’s part of the appeal. Spectacle doesn’t need to be smart. Read full review
75
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldAug 1, 2019
All of this silliness is actually great fun, particularly the bantering chemistry between Johnson and Statham, who spend much of the movie squabbling and calling each other names. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeTy BurrJul 31, 2019
"Hobbs & Shaw” is fine summer meathead entertainment, a brainless bone-cruncher with clever players, a decent script, and enough demolition derby mayhem to satisfy the yahoo lurking within the most civilized of moviegoers. Read full review
75
The Film StageDan MeccaJul 31, 2019
There’s a running joke that Chris Morgan will take this franchise to space since it’s all gotten so out of hand. Honestly, if he were to take these characters there, he’d figure a way to keep us engaged and involved. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineJake ColeJul 31, 2019
The film’s action is the most extreme encapsulation yet of Dwayne Johnson’s bombastic blockbuster work. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangAug 1, 2019
It’s like a “Fast & Furious” movie that’s been deconstructed and reassembled as a gleefully demented live-action cartoon. Read full review
70
IGNMatthew DoughertyJul 31, 2019
Though it’s too long, and not every action scene or comedy bit works, Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, and terrific rising star Vanessa Kirby ensure that there’s fun to be had in a Fast & the Furious movie not centered around cars or racing. Read full review
70
The VergeKeith PhippsJul 31, 2019
Hobbs & Shaw proves they work well together, stretching out the sparky dynamic of their previous appearances together to feature length. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriJul 31, 2019
At its best, Hobbs & Shaw offers a refreshing antidote to the bloat. I’d rather watch another one of these than sit through one more Vin Diesel speech about family. Read full review
70
VarietyPeter DebrugeJul 31, 2019
You may enter a film like this one believing you had some grasp of how gravity works, or the human threshold for pain, or what constitutes a good movie, but the experience is so exhilaratingly mind-altering, so radically untethered from terra firma, you basically have to readjust your basic understanding of everything you know to be true and just go with the flow. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyJul 31, 2019
The two leads' highly competitive shtick is more amusing than not — the insults fly hot and heavy — as are the outrageously adverse predicaments over which they invariably manage to gain an upper hand. Director Leitch figuratively winks at the audience and elbows it in the ribs as he has his characters break the laws of physics time and time again as they confront a thoroughly preposterous lineup of physical dilemmas one after another. Read full review
67
Original-CinJim SlotekAug 1, 2019
As empty of purpose and overlong as it is, Hobbs & Shaw is at least a more entertaining machine than the last F&F film. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattJul 31, 2019
Director David Leitch (Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2) seems to know how to set up his outrageous set pieces, then get out of the way often enough to let his stars do what they need to do: Joke, chokehold, kiss, and smash until the helicopters come home. Read full review
67
ConsequenceClint WorthingtonJul 31, 2019
It’s the kind of new-macho action picture that wears its cornball heart on its sleeve — one where the misfit leads learning to work together is literally, mechanically, the way to defeat the bad guy. It may not have Dom and the gang, but Hobbs & Shaw is as self-indulgently silly and giddily earnest as its fellow Fast brethren. Read full review
67
The PlaylistGriffin SchillerJul 31, 2019
Making the plunge into full-on Saturday Morning cartoon territory with its ludicrous over-the-top-ness, Hobbs & Shaw is a quippy, explosively kick-ass, utterly preposterous buddy romp that injects some much-needed nitrous oxide into an otherwise stale summer movie season. Read full review
67
IndieWireEric KohnJul 31, 2019
It’s certainly proof that even dumb movies can endeavor to enlighten the masses, and gels nicely with the broader message: If Hobbs and Shaw can learn to get along, there may be hope for all of us. Read full review
65
TheWrapCandice FrederickJul 31, 2019
You’ve got to appreciate a movie that doesn’t take itself seriously. And, man, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw is definitely about as ridiculous as a movie can be, for better or worse. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliAug 2, 2019
Hobbs & Shaw is a “classic” summer movie in every sense. It uses Fast & Furious physics (as opposed to the Newtonian kind) to amp up the spectacle element while diminishing the excitement quotient. Read full review
63
The Associated PressJake CoyleAug 1, 2019
Usually, it’s pleasingly aware of its own silliness. But there are blind spots. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerGary ThompsonAug 1, 2019
Despite the movie’s emphasis on physical action, it’s this chemistry that keeps the movie going. Read full review
63
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanAug 1, 2019
The film is far from prestige fare, yet more often than not, it hits that summer sweet spot between the silly and the satisfying. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJul 31, 2019
Vanessa Kirby of “The Crown” and “Mission: Impossible — Fallout” is the primary reason “Hobbs & Shaw” rises above pure formula and borderline-contemptible familiarity. Read full review
63
USA TodayBrian TruittJul 31, 2019
But in trying to break free from being Fast and Furious, “Hobbs & Shaw” forgets to maintain the balance of insanity and heart that makes the series special. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoJul 31, 2019
It’s only in the final third when the fight choreography gets a little too incoherent that you realize you don’t give a damn about anything that’s happening, and you start to wish Hobbs and Shaw were given a story with a little more meat on its bones. But by then you probably won’t care. Read full review
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