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)

"Faster" has it's positives and negatives, the positives is the Christian theme throughout, the main character "Driver" (Dwayne Johnson) has options to take the high road and not get his revenge, but he always tunes out the good advice and does his own thing anyway."Driver" has just gotten out of prison after being set up, and his goal is to kill everyone that set him up and that killed his brother, one thing that this movie seems to shy away from is that it was partly his own fault being in prison, he was a getaway driver which is a participant in a crime, so by law he is supposed to do some time in prison, but what this character is angry about is being set up for the other stuff as well as the obvious.At one point in the movie someone phones him and threatens to take his life, and "Driver"'s response is "think about it, because it's a dark road you're headed down", he knows that revenge is a dark road yet he takes that path himself.Another main character is a drug addict/detective simply titled "Cop" (played by Billy Bob Thornton) we see him basically take over a case that isn't his which is the case of "Driver" killing a bunch of people, on top of that "Cop" is trying to get back with his ex-wife who seems to have been a drug addict with him at one point and has gotten clean and is getting her life back on track also co-parenting their son, we see that she takes "Cop" back and ends up taking some of the drugs (she previously told "Cop" to give her the drugs, to help him, but it ended up becoming bad for her as she ended up taking those specific drugs) there is a powerful scene where she is high and she says some powerful words, that scene also shows how harmful things can get when you go back to the past which is what she did by agreeing to take him back."Faster" is a dark film at times with a few disturbing implications.There's another main character, a British Hit man, simply titled "Killer" (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) who is hired by a mysterious person to track down and kill "Driver", "Killer" has a girlfriend/turned wife who he has conversations with face to face and on the phone, they clearly put her there so he could have someone to talk to and so that viewers can find out more about him, if she was not there then he would be a mute, just chasing and trying to kill "Driver".The plot twist is shocking and hidden very well until the reveal.This movie obviously doesn't want viewers to become too attached to the characters hence the most important characters having no first name.The performances are well-acted, Dwayne Johnson does a great job portraying anger in a calm way as we see that he doesn't actually lose his temper, he is actually self-controlled even though he is killing people, he does it all with planning while keeping his anger visible but contained."Faster" is an action thriller that has a powerful story line, even though it's clichéd, there is an originality to this cine which is how "Driver" goes about killing people, this film has something that similar movies don't have which is that it doesn't have him stop to take breaks so to speak, he just literally goes to kill one person straight after the other, one by one.

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.

This was better than I expected, I guess because its more than just a shoot-em-up action movie. There are 3 story lines running at the same time and initially you don't know why anyone is doing what they're doing. And its dark, wow its very dark. Dwayne Johnson plays 'Driver' who after 10 years in prison has a singular focus, to avenge the murder of his brother. Now as a free man nothing and no one will get in his way and that includes the veteran cop and self absorbed hit-man tracking him.Dwayne Johnson (besides being ginormous here ) barely speaks, seriously he might say 10 words for the whole movie, but he does a lot of acting with his eyes, conveying a range of emotions I didn't know he was capable of. Yeah his character is pretty focused and bitter. Billy Bob is, well Billy Bob which is a good thing and "The Killer" was an interesting character too. The ending of this really threw me, No way! I had to rewind it at two different points because I couldn't believe that "that" actually happened. 04.13