SUNDAY 4 AUGUST 2019HOBBSON’S CHOICE
As ‘Hobbs & Shaw’ is released, Ed Power argues that the Fast
and Furious franchise has more mileage than Marvel
Natural-born frenemies: Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham (Rex)
Every Fast and Furious fan will recall the moment they fell for its world of gleaming bonnets, roaring
motors and lunkhead heroes. For me, it was when in the original The Fast and the Furious Vin Diesel gives
the speech of his life as cuddly criminal-with-feelings Dominic Toretto (and, yes, how fantastic that this bad
boy is named “Dominic”?).
“I live my life a quarter mile at a time,” Dominic tells Paul Walker’s undercover cop Brian O’Conner.
“Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those 10
seconds or less, I’m free.”