The good news is that The Rock, aka Dwayne Johnson, is back kicking ass and taking names. To see what The Rock is cookin’ you merely have to check out the movie Faster where his patented open mouthed, heavy breathing/ scowling acting style is very much in evidence.
The Rock has just done a 10 year prison stretch for knocking off a bank with his buddies [he was the getaway driver]; and while in the joint he’s killed a number of equally bad guys in his self-defense and has the tattoos celebrating each of the kills.
So now that The Rock is back on the outside and looking for justice, other equally bad hombres give him vast space once they see the ink on his beefy forearms. And well they should step aside, because The Rock’s adopted the abbreviated, nihilistic technique of casually walking up to his target, putting a bullet in their foreheads with a Ruger Super Redhawk Alaskan and wheeling away in his badass Camaro. Johnson’s tacit two-words-at-a-time dialogue could have been written on a 3 by 5 card.
The real mastermind of the bank job, and the one who set Rock and his buddies up to begin with, has now hired a young hitman with a British accent who’s apparently made millions in the dot com market.
This guy kills for the mere sport and takes the job to off The Rock for a dollar. Meanwhile his girlfriend, played by the delicious Maggie Grace, may be the real reason why you’ll want to freeze frame scenes from this movie once it comes out on DVD.
Grace is shown in a variety of skimpy attire that displays her legs, and her enjoyment of weaponry seems to be on par with her boyfriend’s. All of that changes, however, once he puts a ring on her finger, which, ain't that always the case?
Unfortunately, Grace who beguiled us in the TV series Lost as the spoiled brat rich girl, doesn’t get naked, but we’ll take what we can get, and Faster offers a lot in tough guy dividends. Well recommended.
