Blog posts tagged with "Idris Elba"
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
The Fast & the Furious series has become one of Hollywood’s most financially successful film franchises, which is a surprise since at times it’s less realistic than a typical superhero film. Despite that, it’s popular enough that two supporting characters, Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham), now have their own film. Obviously, despite being bit players in the F&F series, Johnson and Statham are major film stars, so it seemed inevitable a spin-off franchise would arise. It helps that the actors are Hollywood superstars, but their characters share great chemistry that’s oddly based on their mutual dislike for one another.
For this possible franchise starter, Hobbs and Shaw are forced to team up to stop an evil organization from unleashing a deadly virus that can infect the entire world within days. The bad guys are represented by Brixton Lore (Idris Elba) a self-proclaimed “Black Superman” who has a wealth of superhuman strength and resources to aid in his attempt to evolve the human race (because that’s the gospel he’s spitting to those who care to listen). Most of the film is a loud and destruction-filled game of cat and mouse, as the virus is housed inside the body of Hattie Shaw (Vanessa Kirby), an MI6 field agent framed by Brixton when he tried to steal the virus. Hattie also happens to be Deckard’s kid sister, so there’s an obvious family element akin to F&F. So as Hobbs, Shaw and Hattie run from Brixton in order to buy time to extract the virus and get it to someplace safe, they leave a path of destruction that’s both massive and comical.
In keeping with the F&F series, Hobbs & Shaw stresses the importance of family. What’s interesting is that both men have strained relationships with their respective families – we learn Hobbs hasn’t spoken with his family in Samoa in years; Deckard and Hattie haven’t been close since Deckard, a former MI6 agent himself, went rogue. Besides trying to save the world, director David Leitch (Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2) takes time to resolve his stars’ family problems, a ...
Pacific Rim: Uprising
It’s been nearly 5 years since the release of Guillermo del Toro’s sci-fi extravaganza Pacific Rim. Despite some setbacks its sequel, Pacific Rim: Uprising, has finally arrived. It is a continuation of the original story, takes place 10 ...
Thor: Ragnarok
Since it’s become standard fare to release at least 2-4 superhero films every year, over time it would be easy for the genre to go stale. And with the recent trend leaning towards brooding, overly serious films it would ...
The Dark Tower
Author Stephen King is one of Hollywood’s most adapted writers because he’s produced some incredible stories which piques his readers’ interests (while also entertaining them). King is known mainly for his horror novels but he has dabbled in ...
Star Trek Beyond
Armed with a budget of nearly $200 million, Star Trek has returned and they look to make amends for the somewhat disappointing Star Trek Into Darkness. There were some changes made behind the camera – Justin Lin steps into the director ...
Thor 2 Trailer
Thor 2013 The Dark World! This is visually stunning and sure to be a Marvel hit! Here is the new trailer and it speaks for it self. Enjoy! Only thing I think it is missing is his winged helmet but ...