They reference Furious 7 and The Fate of the Furious, the two movies that Hobbs & Shaw share scenes in. H&S is mostly standalone and can mostly be watched as such and still be enjoyed. There is a little background and appreciation to be had by watching after 5, 6, & 7, at least. 8 does explain Hobbs being retired though.
What’s happening in this Fast and Furious: Hobbs and Shaw movie clip?Shaw (Jason Statham from The Terminator), Hattie (Vanessa Kirby), and Hobbs (Dwayne “The
Playing a CIA apparatchik named Locke, Reynolds kicks the first Fast franchise spinoff into high gear by sending Dwayne Johnson’s Luke Hobbs and Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw on a dangerous
China, in particular, where the automobile action movies always work (as do Johnson and Statham), yielded an awesome $201M final take, repping 26% of Hobbs & Shaw‘s $759M global box office.
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