Gags and Mechanical Seances: A Popcorn Story

Felipe 2022-04-22 07:01:07

This is a Hollywood movie with first-rate special effects, but unfortunately it has a third-rate screenwriter

In my eyes, the Fast and the Furious series is over with the fifth installment

The first is a police and gangster film in which an undercover police detective and a gangster fall in love and kill each other

The fifth part is a crime film in which the protagonists of the series, the Eight Immortals, cross the sea and show their magical powers to steal the safe.

In all the movies after that, there is no more speed and passion, no street racing and a plot that can stand up to scrutiny.

There are Gatlings and Katyushas, ​​nuclear submarines and deadly viruses, mechanical seances and gags, and it really becomes a popcorn movie.

And "Special Operations" is the culmination of all the shortcomings of the series.

First, the inexplicable villain cult organization and the target biochemical weapon

Another inexplicable gag

After that, Johnson and the Hulk brought down three biochemically modified soldiers on the glass facade of the skyscraper without any safety measures.

Then when Jason Stanshaw carried the virus capsule in his sister's blood, he still didn't forget to gag and talk to each other.

Please be serious, your own sister is about to die, the world is about to be destroyed, at least be anxious. Are you really an emotionless killer?

When the two bald heads were tied to the chair, they didn't feel nervous about dying at all.

Then at least two dozen mercenaries surrounding the protagonist group were not as good as dogs, and their marksmanship was not as strong as that of bald heads. He was beaten by the protagonist and Soviet scientists.

In the car chase session, Jason Stanshaw single-handedly killed the drone with a pistol.

I can't watch it anymore, I suspect I'm not watching "Fast and the Furious" but "Beanstalk"

Where there is a beginning, there must be an end, and the twilight of Hollywood must have come.

No more "Roman Holiday", no "North by Northwest", no more "Flying Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

Some are just the protagonist who completes the task in order to complete the task, and gags for the sake of gag

It did not arouse the shock of the soul, did not cause the audience to think, and even did not have a cheap touch.

Looking at the face of Jason's bald head and little sister, I can give two points, no more.

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Extended Reading

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw quotes

  • [Brixton nabs Hattie and he and his thugs scale down the skyscraper. Hobbs and Shaw decide to chase after them through ropes]

    Luke Hobbs: On my three.

    Deckard Shaw: Sure.

    Luke Hobbs: One, two, three!

    [Hobbs jumps and grabs his rope, but realizes that Shaw doesn't do the same. Shaw waves at Hobbs and takes the elevator, engaging the emergency release to drop him faster than Hobbs. Hobbs then jumps and knocks out a thug by sending him crashing head-first to the elevator window]

    Luke Hobbs: [muffled] Fuck you!

  • [Brixton has Hobbs and Shaw chained to an electric torture device]

    Brixton: Three shocks will kill a man.

    Luke Hobbs: Here we go. It's a bad guy speech.

    [Brixton gives them one shock]

    Deckard Shaw: You had to open your big mouth, did ya, huh?

    Luke Hobbs: Yeah, I thought it was a cool thing to say at the moment.