Fast And Furious: Hobbs & Shaw - 7 Ups And 2 Downs

2. Jason Statham

How can you not love this man? He's a national treasure (and I'm not just saying that as I too am bald and nasally)

Statham utterly owns this role through and through and you can tell he's having a huge amount of fun with it. It was a slight worry for the team up flick when you consider Shaw's past, but this is immediately swept away as just being "a bit grumpy" rather than a man who ones "killed a member of the family"

When put next to The Rock, anyone is going to look a little diminutive but this is where Statham's true strength comes to the fore. He's a viper tongued and piercing force that manages to not only best some of Hobbs' zingers but often come out on top in the intellectual battlefield. The directors were also very clever with his fight choreography, making sure that both he and Johnson had equal hits and equal punches land; this cements his position of UK's hardest man (outside of Danny Dyer's ego) and is a real highlight of the film.

So secure is Statham in his position that it makes the comedy moments when things don't go exactly as planned all the better, for example in a face smashing ID door sequence, it's genuinely entertaining to see Shaw flustered and break that "cooler than ice" persona he's crafted.