Faster Review

Directed by	George Tillman, Jr.
Produced by	Tony Gayton Liz Glotzer Martin ShaferRobert Teitel
Written by	Tony Gayton Joe Gayton
Starring	Dwayne Johnson Billy Bob Thornton Carla Gugino Moon Bloodgood Oliver Jackson-Cohen Maggie Grace Matt Gerald

(Released Nationally (AUS) from February 3rd) 


Screenwriting lesson 1.01; to make the modern day anti-hero just a little more badass, make sure you adorn their left forearm (or really on place on their body) with a tattoo tally of their kills whilst in prison... nobody would ever mess with someone like that!!? 


Vengeance is a meal best served cold! 'Faster is literally everything its poster suggests. The Rock, aka Dwayne Johnson, is our modern day (badly written, Clint Eastwood), cowboy/anti-hero with the sole goal of serving justice to those who have wronged him! In other words; he is our gun toting, tat-adorned, 125kg, brooding bad arse, fresh out of jail to unleash havoc across small town Nevada! 
Saddled into his 1971 Chevrolet Chevelle SS (which is literally just a beefed out as Johnson himself), his Ruger Super Red Hawk Alaskan Chambered in 454 Casull on his hip (that monstrous weapon he hulks about), there's a new stench that's just rolled into town.... can you smell what The Rock is cooking!? (i'm just warming you up for the sort of writing you're in for, don't blame me!) 


Obviously, if you haven't picked it already, this is a film for the boy's. Where really, you'll most probably forget about the story (if any), and stare google eyed at the actual size of Dwayne Johnson, fictionalising how you are actually going to spend the next 6months in the gym, four times a week. And then of course, you'll be mesmerized by the ever so attractive Maggie Grace (best remembered as Liam Neeson's daughter Kim in 'Taken' 2008), who has most certainly grown up in the last 2 years! 
If anything, this film is a good bit of poorly written fun; corny one-liners, only ad to the excitement in a film where the muscle, guns, cars, and girls, ultimately out weigh any of the performances...but honestly, can you expect anything less from The Rock! All performances are mediocre at best (very much inclusive of Billy Bob Thorton), but really why act, when you can stand around, look amazing, and be brooding! If anything, the 'Twilight' Saga has taught us this! 


Check it out, or simply check out the poster, they're practically one and the same! 


Trailer below; 

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