![]() The Carpenters is now a smart welcoming place but, for all its history, one thing the Carpenters Arms doesn’t have is that spacious subterranean armoury. And that’s it for Glasgow.įast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw location: Shaw's garage / armoury beneath the pub: Pennington Street Warehouse, Pennington Street, London E1 | Photograph: Wikimedia / Paul the Archivist It’s opposite George Square, which you can clearly see throughout the chase. There’s a clue as a furious Brixton finds himself thrown from his bike in front of The Piper bar, which stands on Cochrane Street in the heart of – um – Glasgow. That’s because the chase was filmed elsewhere. Londoners might feel that the streets, despite whizzing by so quickly, are oddly unfamiliar. Standing directly opposite, and in the background of the ensuing fight at the base of the Grater, is one of the first (and by far the best) of the City’s new generation of high-rise offices, the Lloyd’s Building, HQ of the famous insurance company, which you might recognize as ‘Xandar’, attacked by the Dark Aster in Guardians of the Galaxy.īeing a Fast & Furious movie, the fight naturally escalates into a full-on road chase. The Grater’s elevator, at eight metres per second, is the fastest in Europe and it is a glass box, but it runs vertically in a groove up the side of the building, not down the sloping front. Hobbs follows but Shaw sensibly takes the elevator. ![]() The steeply-sloping face of the Leadenhall Building saw it dubbed the Cheese-Grater and it’s clearly this feature that inspired the rappelling sequence as Brixton and his goons kidnap Hattie from the CIA site. ![]() This is one more of the ludicrous vanity projects from ego-driven architects which are turning the skyline of London into an incoherent jumble of silly shapes, each of which gets an appropriate nickname – the Gherkin (US: Pickle), the Shard and the Walkie-Talkie. Sparks fly when Hobbs and Shaw meet up at the CIA’s secret ‘Black Site’ housed, as many furtive agencies are, at the top of one of London’s most noticeable landmarks, Leadenhall Building, 122 Leadenhall Street, London EC3.įast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw location: the street fight at the foot of the tower: Leadenhall Street, London EC3 This posh hotel, by the way, doesn’t have an illuminated sign for deliveries at the rear and is separated from the river by the very busy Thames Embankment. Hattie heads off to the Savoy Hotel, 1 Savoy Hill, on the Strand, changes and exits the rear where she’s accosted by Hobbs. Along with the stretch of Wentworth Road you see, it's part of the famous Petticoat Lane fashion and clothing street-market, but not usually dressed up with so much neon. Middlesex Street used to be called Petticoat Lane. Suspected of being a double agent who subverted the raid, Hattie is forced to flee her flat in the Middlesex Street Estate at Wentworth Street, E1, in London’s East End. Hobbs, meanwhile, is being recruited by Locke ( Ryan Reynolds) in an LA diner – ‘Jenny’s Pancake House’ (a scene mocked up in London where, the unbilled, Reynolds happened to be filming).įast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw location: Hattie flees her flat: Middlesex Street Estate, Wentworth Road, London E1 In this case, beneath the flashing lights, that wild and crazy club is the austere deco Freemason’s Hall, 60 Great Queen Street in Covent Garden, London, WC2, seen in Green Zone and Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes. Shaw is also looking for info on what is nicknamed the Snowflake virus in one of those flashy nightclubs that always turn out to be run by gangsters from a back room. It all goes wrong and the team is killed except for Hattie who manages to inject capsules of the virus into herself and escape on foot across the Millennium Bridge, fast becoming a screen regular, following appearances in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and in Guardians of the Galaxy. The film kicks off in London with an MI6 copter raid on a bunker which seems to be near St Paul’s Cathedral. Trying to prevent them is genetically engineered superman Brixton ( Idris Elba).Įnough of the plot, let’s start crashing cars and blowing things up. ![]() Forget suspension of disbelief, you’ll need suspension of physics, suspension of mechanics, suspension of logic and a whole lot more as mismatched pair Luke Hobbs ( Dwayne Johnson) and Deckard Shaw ( Jason Statham) are, yes, unwillingly paired up by the authorities to track down an artificial and potentially world-destroying virus that’s somehow become stored in Shaw’s estranged sister, Hattie ( Vanessa Kirby). This apparently globetrotting, FX-laden buddy movie is a long way from Rob Cohen’s original, low-budget 2001 street-race flick The Fast and The Furious.
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