There are a few posters for "Hobbs & Shaw", but this one, which is also the preliminary DVD cover for the UK release, is the best. It says it all in one picture. Two men on different sides of the road, from different countries, with different styles. The film emphasises this from the beginning, including exaggerated bouts of insults and trash talking. They don't want to work together, but they don't have a choice. The fate of the human race lies in their hands.
An organisation called Eteon has created a virus that will kill almost everyone on Earth. Only the strong will survive, and I'm sure that Eteon has its own definition of "strong". A group of MI6 agents try to steal the virus, but they're wiped out by Brixton Lore, a cybernetically enhanced super-soldier. The only survivor of the MI6 team is Hattie Shaw, who injects the virus into herself to smuggle it out of the building. It will lie dormant within her for a few days, after which it will kill her and infect the whole Earth. Brixton frames her as a traitor who's killed her own men.
Hattie's brother, Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham), is recruited by MI6 to find the virus, not knowing that Hattie is carrying it within herself. The CIA also sends Lukas Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) to find the virus.
The film's action scenes are so exaggerated that I almost laughed while watching them, but they overwhelmed me and kept me excited throughout the film. Whenever the action stopped it was replaced by humorous scenes. It's rare that a film has drawn me in on such a visceral level. This is a spin-off from the Fast & Furious film series, and it's just as exaggerated as the recent Fast & Furious films.
I've already used the word "exaggerated" three times, so I think that's the single word that I should use to describe "Hobbs & Shaw".
Exaggerated.
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