“Fast And Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw” (**1/2 out of four) was an outlandish spin-off of the “Fast And Furious” series in which rogue agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and crew member Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) are forced to team with Shaw’s sister (Vanessa Kirby) when a genetically enhanced villain (Idris Elba) threatens worldwide destruction. Full of the series’ usual large-scale action scenes and moves fast enough but it starts to wear out after a while as story eventually starts to become tiresome, even though it keeps slamming you over the head with loud action and effects. Johnson and Statham make an engaging team and Elba is an entertaining villain but this still feels like an unnecessary (and cartoonish) extension of the series.

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