Faster

2010 "Slow justice is no justice"
6.4| 1h38m| R| en| More Info
Released: 23 November 2010 Released
Producted By: Castle Rock Entertainment
Country: United States of America
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Official Website: http://www.fasterthemovie.com
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After 10 years in prison, Driver is now a free man with a single focus - hunting down the people responsible for brutally murdering his brother.

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adonis98-743-186503 An ex-con gets on a series of apparently unrelated killings. He gets tracked by a veteran cop with secrets of his own and an egocentric hit man. Thanks to a talented cast, great action set pieces and well written and interesting characters this throwback to the 80's and 90's action films that we loved has The Rock at his finest for sure. (10/10)
cinemajesty One of the hard-boiled R-rated roles for actor Dwayne Johnson as Driver, just before entering the "The Fast & Furious Franchise" in 2011 as the character of Hobbs, finally leaving behind the former wrestler identifying name "The Rock" in motion picture credits to focus on full-time acting between comedy and action movies, where "Faster" stands out, directed by George Tillman Jr., who established a competent reputation as Director with "Men of Honor" (2000), arguably delivers his most stylized movie with creative angle, location and flickering light works, which carries the audience for 90 Minutes through an action-packed scenario with a slightly sub-cooled main character, who has been well supported by his encountering acting fellows all up front actor Billy Bob Thornton, playing skillfully with the edge of police force corruptors within the character of Cop, which leads to ultimate weakness of the "Faster" in given the part of Killer to the too slick looking actor Oliver Jackson-Cohen, leaving the showdown of the movie unspectacularly unthrilling, yet script-wise resolved, after a fulminate pacing in the first 60 Minutes.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemjasty Entertainments LLC)
NateWatchesCoolMovies Faster is an action film with an eerie aura and a darkly unnerving bite to it. Don't get me wrong, it's action through and through, a genre effort right to its marrow. And yet, there's something oddly esoteric about it, an obvious extra effort put in by the filmmakers, namely first time action director George Tillman, to give every character an off kilter, bizarre cadence to ensure we won't forget them. There's clichés, no doubt, but they're eclipsed by the strange, full moon weirdness of the rogues running about the film's story. Dwayne Johnson fires up a furious protagonist in his first action role after a long and ridiculous stint in insufferable family comedies. He plays a quiet, hulking dude known only as Driver, reluctantly released from prison by a watchful Warden (Tom Berenger). Upon exiting the gate, he runs. And runs. And runs. He arrives at a small town junkyard where he tears a tarp of a vintage Chevelle which seems to be left there for him like a care package. From there he launches a bloody crusade of revenge that knows neither mercy nor discretion, and whose reasons we are only slowly allowed to know. He's a one man wrecking ball, the murders piling up before we really have any idea what this guy is about. He's been greatly wronged in the past, the culprits of which should all be running scared, as he comes looking for them one by one and with the juggernaut pace of a boulder tumbling down a mountain. Pretty soon there's two cops on his trail, intrepid Cicero (Carla Gugino) and mopey sleazeball 'Cop' (Billy Bob Thornton), a dilapidated piece of work who mainlines heroin and clearly has a murky past. Soon there's one hell of a hit-man (Oliver Jackson Cohen) skulking around looking for Driver, an extreme sports enthusiast who has 'beaten yoga' and is avidly looking for the next big thrill. Johnson jumps from one ultra violent encounter to the next with all the corrosive ferocity of the grim reaper, tallying up the corpses until we're all but sure he's an inhuman elimination machine. Then.. the film curveballs us and throws a glint of humanity into the mix with some late third act emotion that only goes to show the filmmakers set out with more than a one track mind. Driver has been unspeakably betrayed, and his rampage is undeniably justified, but there's a complexity to his quest that he didn't see coming, and neither did those of us who expected pure action without a moral conundrum in sight. I say good on it for grasping something besides the thrills. A terrific cast populates the almost Oliver Stone - esque proceedings, including Maggie Grace, Moon Bloodgood, Mike Epps, Jennifer Carpenter (always superb), Matt Gerald, Xander Berkeley, Buzz Belmondo, Courtney Gains and more. It's got the depth of a well written graphic novel and a level of thought out characterization that heaps of stale action entries wish they possessed.
Paul Magne Haakonsen 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.