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24 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Chicago ReaderChicago ReaderThe film never outshines its influences, but as back-to-basics action filmmaking, it's often superb.
- 70MovielineMichelle OrangeMovielineMichelle OrangeBuilt for speed, and for an action-savvy audience who can appreciate a throwaway vengeance flick for exactly what it is.
- 63Boston GlobeTy BurrBoston GlobeTy BurrFaster is meat-and-potatoes action with a side of crazy.
- 63Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertA pure thriller, all blood, no frills, in which a lot of people get shot, mostly in the head.
- 60Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzA stripped-down affair, from title to characters to plot. It never strives to be more, instead concentrating on making the most of its self-imposed limitations.
- 50Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovThis is meat-and-potatoes (and bullets) action filmmaking, although, really, that title's got to go.
- 50Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsDwayne Johnson leaves his lovable self behind in the violent but bland Faster.
- 50L.A. WeeklyNick PinkertonL.A. WeeklyNick PinkertonThe archetypal names are pure Walter Hill, the single-minded grudge mission borrowed from Donald Westlake's Hunter books - fine antecedents, though director George Tillman Jr.'s style is anything but terse, indulging rote slo-mo swagger set to secondhand musical cues.
- 40Boxoffice MagazineSteve RamosBoxoffice MagazineSteve RamosWatching Driver peel rubber proves B grade action movies are a welcome diversion in the era of CGI blockbusters. If only Faster didn't fizzle each time Johnson put down his gun.
- 25Entertainment WeeklyAdam MarkovitzEntertainment WeeklyAdam MarkovitzFaster grafts that genre's style onto a deadbeat script and leaves it to Johnson - as deadly focused as a gunsight - to make it all believable.