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Day 211: November 27th, 2010
Faster
A predictable, yet still fun action film.
Faster is The Rock back in the genre he belongs. After failed and failed and failed attempts at disney kids films, need I remind anyone of The Tooth Fairy, it seems The Rock aka Dwayne Johnson, is back doing what he does best. Faster is a revenge tale. Straight out of prison, a man known only as Driver, goes on a killing spree. His targets? A gang of thugs that killed his brother and shot him in the head, leaving him for dead. Somehow he lived and how he's dishing out his own personal vengeance.
Yeah, so we've seen this type of film before. It also stars Billy bob Thorton in a role that seems as if he were simply chasing a paycheck and Carla Gugino, a detective on the case. Cugino gets very little to do here other than speak her lines at crime scenes and belittle Thorton every chance she gets. Thorton on the other hand has a bit more depth to his character, but it doesn't seem like he cares to explore it.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen plays an assassin, a hired contract killer sent to take out Driver. Who don't know who is employer is, but we can figure it out before their big reveal. He gets engaged to Shannon from Lost and is willing to leave the profession behind...after this one last job. Hmm, another plot device that we have seen before. Basically Faster tries nothing new, nothing at all, and it's perfectly fine with just that. It's more concerned with showing the Rock as a badass. Well, I'm here to say mission accomplished. How many films can you say you've seen where a guy walks into a hospital with a revolver and shoots a man lying on an operating table. This is of course after a knife fight with said man a few scenes prior.
I really like Dwayne Johnson. The man has charisma, he was always one of the more entertaining people in the ring and I'm glad to see him branch out to new endeavors. The man does action and comedy well, he should stick to what he knows best and try to avoid those odd roles, like in Southland Tales. Faster, although cliched, does the job.
Faster
A predictable, yet still fun action film.
Faster is The Rock back in the genre he belongs. After failed and failed and failed attempts at disney kids films, need I remind anyone of The Tooth Fairy, it seems The Rock aka Dwayne Johnson, is back doing what he does best. Faster is a revenge tale. Straight out of prison, a man known only as Driver, goes on a killing spree. His targets? A gang of thugs that killed his brother and shot him in the head, leaving him for dead. Somehow he lived and how he's dishing out his own personal vengeance.
Yeah, so we've seen this type of film before. It also stars Billy bob Thorton in a role that seems as if he were simply chasing a paycheck and Carla Gugino, a detective on the case. Cugino gets very little to do here other than speak her lines at crime scenes and belittle Thorton every chance she gets. Thorton on the other hand has a bit more depth to his character, but it doesn't seem like he cares to explore it.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen plays an assassin, a hired contract killer sent to take out Driver. Who don't know who is employer is, but we can figure it out before their big reveal. He gets engaged to Shannon from Lost and is willing to leave the profession behind...after this one last job. Hmm, another plot device that we have seen before. Basically Faster tries nothing new, nothing at all, and it's perfectly fine with just that. It's more concerned with showing the Rock as a badass. Well, I'm here to say mission accomplished. How many films can you say you've seen where a guy walks into a hospital with a revolver and shoots a man lying on an operating table. This is of course after a knife fight with said man a few scenes prior.
I really like Dwayne Johnson. The man has charisma, he was always one of the more entertaining people in the ring and I'm glad to see him branch out to new endeavors. The man does action and comedy well, he should stick to what he knows best and try to avoid those odd roles, like in Southland Tales. Faster, although cliched, does the job.