The newest installment of the series, Hobbs & Shaw, is set to be released in August of 2019, but when will this series end?
Think about how far we have come in this series. This being the ninth movie, I have thoroughly had enough. What started out as street racers trying to avoid the local police in California, has turned into a nation wide rampage with the highest tech, biggest weapons (and people), the most expensive and progressive vehicles and some of the craziest most thought out action sequences on the screen today. We have gone from Mitsubishi Eclipse’s and Mazda RX-7’s to tanks, subterranean vehicles with tracks and submarines. When I first saw the bank vault being thrown through buildings in Rio, that was a clear indicator for me that this series was heading in a wild direction. After every movie from that point on, I found myself asking, “where could they possibly go from here?”
While the series started out modestly, there was plenty of room for this series to become the biggest and greatest action series in movie history. “Hobbs & Shaw” is considered a spinoff of the original series and this is opening the flood gates for potential to once again have an overwhelming opportunity. Since overwhelming seems to be the main theme for the last few movies, it seems that as long as the movies are making money, they are going to keep blowing up the screen. Perhaps it’s that so many other people are wondering where the series can go next that the writers feel a need to satisfy the audience with the next big action movie. Nevertheless, Hobbs & Shaw are probably going to be around for a while.
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