FASTER

HANDLE YO BIDNESS, MAYNE!!!


Action films just suit the ex-WWE star like loud colors on pimp.  The Rock (now going by Dwayne Johnson) is on a mission to kill.  Cliche'? Yes.  Does that make this film weak, not at all. 


The story goes as this, The Rock(Driver) was a getaway driver in a bank job where he and his brother were double crossed.  His brother gets murked in front of him and Driver goes to jail for dime.  He gets outta jail with (where the story begins) with an one track mind KILL.  Out for revenge which usually translates into blood in movies and this movie has enough to satisfy your blood thirsty American eyes. Oh yeah, Driver got shot in the back of his head and the bullet ricocheted off his skull and came out his cheek so he was supposed to die in that sequence as well they didn't just leave him to come back and get him.  In fact, he was DOA at the hospital and then he "magically" came back to life.


Revenge movies done well are always a good treat.


The cast in this one is decent enough to get the job done, Billy Bob Thorton, Mike Epps, and Oliver Jackson Cohen(Killer).  The last dude, Oliver(Killer), kinda throws the movie off a bit for me. Just seems outta place in this movie.  Killer is suppose to be a specialist in aquarium upkeep.  Someone hires him to clean up a fish tank the Rock took a shit in and killed a rare tropical fish.  Angry that the Rock had such disdain for the beauty and rarity of those tropical fish he just went mad and wanted to hunt him down.  Nah I'm bullshitting he is a specialist in killing, of course.  But he might as well have been an aquarium cleaner because he didn't seem to fit in that role to me.


So this big ass dude, Driver, with his big ass chunky fucking Ruger Super Redhawk Revolver(see poster above, yes I googled that shit), and a very distinguishable 1971 Chevelle SS, is going around town hunting down all involved in his brother's death and killing them.  Im talking about busting in on niggas at the job- BANG-bullet through your head in front of everybody and they momma and 3 cameras.  So he just got out of jail and, clearly, he doesn't plan on staying alive or out for long.  Some of the dudes he goes after are real creeps some have completely changed there life around and are sorry for the fucked up way they did Driver and his brother.  Does he give a damn? Not gonna spoil it for you.  But he does get some sort of closure throughout the ordeal.


Billy Bob does a good job as a junkie cop.  That white dude Oliver Jackson-Cohen is an adrenaline junkie assassin who takes appreciation in ones skills in killing, its stupider than it sounds.  Oliver's role could've went right or left and he busted a hard left in this one, better luck next time.  The Rock does a good job in his portrayal of a brother out for revenge.  On a side note The Rock is supposed to have been a getaway driver and on the robbery they showed it was some extra bullshit to me.  He did alot of shit to get noticed in a situation I seen as easy as riding past the cops at a normal speed and not getting noticed.  This nigga is doing all the dramatic movie driving letting it be known it was his car with the 4 robber in it that did the job on a busy ass street.  Im talking driving backwards, fishtails, and if the nigga coulda done a wheely in the getaway car he woulda done that too.


I digress.


It was a decent action film.  The Rock should stick to his role as an ass-kicking lead instead of that toothfairy or just plain old fairy roles he's played in the past.  Arnold, Sly, Van Damme, and Segal are all old as shit and Dwayne Johnson has the opening to take the #1 action star spot.