Better Stunts & Actors, Just As Derivative: 'Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw'

While we were all arguing whether Idris Elba should be the new 007, he opted to become the next T-800 instead.

In Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, the most agreeable of the innumerable Fast & Furious presentations, The Wire's Stringer Bell plays a straight-up Terminator, with stainless steel innards, glowing orange eyeballs, and a Google-glass-like POV datastream that gives him helpful notifications such as ATTACK IMMINENT whenever bickering-buddy good guys Dwayne Johnson (aka Hobbs) or Jason Statham (aka Shaw) cock a fist in his direction.

That's an observation top-billed Johnson makes himself while fleeing (!) the cybernetically-enhanced super-soldier, though Elba's character — he's called Brixton, like in the old Clash song "Guns of..." — prefers the sobriquet