Title, Year: Faster (2010)
Director: George Tillman Jr.
“Faster” is not a very good movie, no beating around the bush. This is an action film with a lot of cool potential, but sadly the film (ironically titled) never quite kicks into gear.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson stars as Driver, a guy fresh out of prison with a major score to settle. Let me say, I am a big fan of The Rock (as he will always be known to me). The problem is the script doesn’t let him do much aside from strut around like a man possessed, showing off his extremely scary neck muscles, and hunting down the scoundrels who murdered his brother in cold blood. The writing strips the personality away from the usually very charismatic Rock. This movie is a cross between “The Crow” and “Pale Rider” in storyline and plot devices, however not nearly as good as either of those films.
It’s really not worth anymore of my time documenting this sad case of a film. The cinematography offers some decent landscape shots and I have a soft spot for any film that uses cool images of a Chevelle SS (I think it was a 1970 model), but alas that doesn’t a movie make.
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