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So we meet Hobbs and Shaw again, and instead of being the characters in Fast and Furious, we instead get into some weird parallel world, where science fiction runs rampant.

Where Fast and Furious is known for fast moving cars doing some amazing stunt work, Hobbs and Shaw is a world of fisticuffs and science fiction. I realize the producers were trying to capitalize on the F&F franchise, but it was a poor way to go about it.

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The one thing we never saw in the F7F series was out of this world science fiction, with Hobbs and Shaw, thats exactly what we saw. From viruses that can wipe out humanity, to people who can open up and reveal mechanized bodies. Robotics is no where near that advanced, so we suddenly have a timeline which jumps 100 years into the future technology wise, but stays the same in cars. This one minor plot flaw completely ruined the movie for me.

If you like cynical, dry sardonic humor, you'll love this movie. If you laugh out loud when people do stupid things and get hurt, then this is not your kind of movie. Two cynical people meet at a wedding and form an impromptu relationship. The scenes will stand out in your mind, after watching the film, and help you to realize that you just saw your favorite movie of the year.

Week after week, I am astounded by the acting skills of Millie Bobby Brown, who plays Madison on Intruders. She plays a person with seemingly multiple personality disorder, and the way she mimics her adult counterpart has me in chills. I would be severely disappointed if she isn't offered an Emmy for her acting on Intruders. She switches from a pretty young girl, to a mean crotchety man in seconds and leaves me wondering how she can embody both of these characters to this extent.

As for the show itself, it's still unfolding and I am drawn to the dark plot like no other. It's gritty and something I would expect from BBC UK, not anything out of the US. Kudos to the creators, writers, actors and directors. This show leaves me wanting only more.

Remember, what goes around, comes around.

This story is called "Fifteen Million Merits", it's an alternative world in which people ride cycles to gather credits, to buy items for their avatars, to buy sustenance, and basic needs. It's a world where each individual is forced to watch commercials or pay fees to mute or get rid of them. What might seem like a digital utopia to some, turns into a hell for others.

Bing is an innocent soul who falls in love, and wishes for his love to succeed. He spends 15 million credits to help his love to get a chance of a lifetime. Unbeknownst to him (and the rest of the world), contestants are drugged to do whatever the leaders tell them to do on a grimy sleazy talent show.

What happens next might shock, it might surprise, but it definitely will amaze you to see that this alternative universe isn't that far off from our world today... or what it could be tomorrow.

While I would like to say this was a great movie, it wasn't. The movie would continually jump in with have and have not items and scenes.

Many times we see Rob traversing the countryside, talking to us, telling us of far away lands and places he's been, and yet we can tell at all times that there is a film crew with him. It could almost have been a documentary, if not for the fact that we can tell he's trying to act.

In one scene he's helping to build a well with shovels, and in another a town that has no money, has a professionally made well.

Another scene we see him traversing the countryside with a knapsack and surfboard, then suddenly he has a tent.

We are to believe that he is out there alone... and yet for days/weeks at a time, he goes without food. Only surfing, writing, and reading. Never do we see him fish (he doesn't carry a fishing pole).

Never do we see him carrying a guitar, and then suddenly, as if by magic, he has one.

The phone... it's 2009, and Rob has a crappy cell phone? Not likely, nor realistic. I have a cheap phone, but that one was cheaper then mine. They only had a $5 budget, for 5 phone scenes, which lasted at least 3 minutes of a 53 minute movie?

The surf scenes were good. They weren't great, they weren't all encompassing scenes which should captivate the watcher. He rides tubes, left to right, a few tricks, nothing too special. We don't get pulled into the scene and made to believe this is something of beauty, instead it's plain.

The scenery itself, that was breathtaking. They choose some great locations, off the beaten path.

For all the breathtaking beauty of the world, a poorly executed story, mars this could be film.