Faster

Oh, it's called "Faster" because he's a driver? Or is it because of the hilarious long run he takes during the opening credits? Either way, it's a damn fine title. Let's hope they'll grace us with an "Go Faster!", "Even Faster!" and - please God! - a "Faster, The Rock! Kill! Kill!". Added points for the police description of Driver (The Rock) as merely "6'3 and crewcut". I'd probably have added "about as wide as a medium-sized barn and fucking angry looking".

The Rock does his job as an angry, vendictive killer who tracks down his brothers killers one by one... Everything else is completely and utterly crap and i cant imagine why BBT agreed to star in this piece of s...! Faster has one of the most annoying and misplaced subplots (The hitman one) I have ever seen, and the extra 5 points goes to Clint Mansells score. Apparantly CM, who has made some brilliant OST's for Aranofskys films has also done Doom, Trust the Man, Smokin' Aces and Sahara! WTF!

Minus the horrendous subplots this was exactly what I was hoping it would be. The Rock does his thing and it's pretty enjoyable throughout but whenever The Rock isn't on screen you really start to miss him just shooting niggas in the face randomly. Would love to do a shitty actress battle royale: Jennifer Carpenter vs Maggie Grace, god you 2 are awful.

It's hardly the perfect action movie (Maggie Grace's character is pointless/annoying. Come to think of it, the entire contract killer B-story with Jackson-Cohen could be cut without losing much). But I have been waiting so long for The Rock to return to making movies like this that just the sight of him brutally murdering people is enough to draw a positive score. Great music from Clint Mansell, and I dig the grimy visual aesthetic. It's a modern take on 70s revenge flicks -- just needs levity.

So help me, I liked it. Beware, though, this isn't what you probably expect. It's, surprisingly, not fast-paced and it is not cool. Those wanting wall-to-wall action will be frustrated when The Rock starts tearing up and Billy Bob hangs out with his kid. Bland as the subplots may be, I thought that the overall storyline was pretty decent and found myself entertained and engaged in equal measure. Perhaps I was just in the right mood. A score by the god that is Clint Mansell doesn't hurt matters.