Faster (2010)

Like "The Terminator" except he uses a list instead of the phone book. Root for the bad guy !!

Driver (Dwayne Johnson) is a feared man released from prison. His tattoo denotes a mythical ghost-like quality. He was a bank robber but his crew gets jumped by another group. They shot him in the head but he came back from the dead. Now he's out for revenge. Cop (Billy Bob Thornton) is a former addict and a divorced dad on the verge of retirement. He gets the case with detective Cicero (Carla Gugino). Killer (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) has beaten yoga. He is a self-made man with girlfriend Lily (Maggie Grace) and looking to conquer life. He is an assassin for the challenge and he get hired in a mysterious phone call to kill Driver.This is a hard-boiled stripped-down revenge story. It does need something more to put it over the top. I really appreciate the idea of stripping these characters to their base essentials. Killer does need somebody with more gravitas. He is too much of the Silicon Valley hipster. He needs to be cooler than that. The best way to push the stylistic vision is to bring on more violence. It needs to be harder and more brutal. Overall, the Rock is awesome and there are plenty of solid actors here. However, this needs to be a little faster.

This was a refreshing change of roles for Dwayne Johnson, and I will actually go as far as saying that a role like the one in "Faster" is what he is best suited for.While the movie itself is a no-brainer, it is actually good entertainment. The movie's storyline is so simple that every can keep up with what is going on, but it still does manage to throw a twist towards the end. Driver is released from prison and has one thing on his mind only; to revenge his dead brother by taking the lives of those responsible.As I started out with mentioning, Dwayne Johnson was actually really good in this role and delivered quite well. I don't normally think much of the acting of Billy Bob Thornton, but he was great in this movie."Faster" is an action-packed ride with cars, guns, knives and a classic cat-and-mouse chase. It is well-worth spending an hour and a half on watching. Oh, and Dwayne Johnson shows that he doesn't need Vin Diesel to pull off a car movie. You know what you will get with a movie of this caliber, and it does deliver where it counts.

Now this film got to make you wonder what was Dwayne thinking? To be honest with you it amazed me how some would just take a role just to get in a movie because this film is just how would you put it? While it is good to see him play in a full throttle action film since for a time he did family films. This one does feel mix.The level of Violence that Faster has can be too much for a lot of movie fans. Some of the most graphic fight scenes I've seen in any action film.With a title like Faster you would have hoped for more than you have bargain for but we don't get that with this film. And Faster has quite the cast: Dwayne Johnson as Driver Billy Bob Thornton as Detective Slade Humphries / Cop Oliver Jackson-Cohen as Killer Maggie Grace as Lily Moon Bloodgood as Marina HumphriesBut the film don't have the best acting in the world it is more or less just mix. Faster does have a interesting story which would spike your curiously however the film just feels a lot of mix that can hurt it.I give Faster an 6 out of 10