The Fast and the Furious films have unexpectedly turned into a multi-billion dollar franchise that’s nearly amassed ten films with increasingly ridiculous car-related antics. Even though each film in the series gets progressively outrageous, the movies are able to effectively sell this insanity and they’ve done great work to establish the boundaries of this exaggerated universe. One of the more entertaining characters to enter the Fast and the Furious films is Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw.
The villain-turned-ally has become such a popular addition to the series that he’s even been spun off into his own series of films that take advantage of Statham’s extreme nature. Deckard Shaw may be an entertaining character, but not everything that he does is always in the realm of plausibility. Deckard Shaw’s over the top nature is part of what makes him so much fun, but there are naturally limits to this.