I was expected a crazed revenge flick with the Rock engaging in one action sequence after another. The movie never really delivers in that manner. There are no brawls, no explosions and not much action. I'm not even going to go in to the absurdity of the events that transpire. The plot is popcorn action bad but without the popcorn action. Instead, they try and deliver some kind of shallow character drama involving three characters from three different perspectives. The strangest (and dumbest) is introducing a rich-boy assassin for what really amounts to no reason whatsoever. You can almost see the writers struggling to make enough script pages like some kind of homework assignment. The movie is poorly written and the "surprise twist" is really no surprise at all. The Rock looks menacing but besides shooting a couple of people in the head and jabbing a guy with an ice pick, he does nothing any average angry schmuck couldn't do. This is a truly unremarkable and shallow film.
Review of Faster
