"Faster." That has to be one of the lamest movie titles since "The Bounty Hunter."
Directed by George Tillman, Jr. from a script by Joe Gayton and Tony Gayton, "Faster," is your run-of-the-mill revenge fantasy. It's formulaic and an agonizing experience to say the least.
The script by the two Gaytons had painfully awkward and meaningless conversations, cheesy one-liners and religious clichés (a preacher preaches on the radio about forgiveness and hate).
Now this being a revenge movie and all, you'd expect that there would be some great scenes of revenge.
One of the best things about vigilante movies is that they show lengthy scenes of the bad guys doing bad stuff in order to get our blood boiling, followed by scenes of them getting painfully punished. But "Faster" doesn't deliver on any of that.
The film stars Dwayne Johnson as the vigilante Driver. He has been in prison for 10 years but now he's out and ready to avenge the death of his brother. Yes, he has a motivation but we know nothing about his brother or what kind of person he is nor do we know what kind of person Driver is. So it's hard for you to care.
Johnson isn't given much to do besides stare intensely at the distance and say no more than five words at a time. I understand he's no Al Pacino, but he's capable of doing some basic acting. On the bright side, at least he's not appearing in another Disney movie.
The supporting characters consisted of a boring and undeveloped Billy Bob Thornton as the cop who is just two steps behind Driver and an eccentric hit man played by Oliver Jackson-Cohen who, for some reason, is trying to kill Driver.
Thornton was the clichéd cop, a divorcee with a kid and a drug problem. Cohen's character is given no purpose or motivation, and gets most of the bad dialogue like, "I want something more ultimate." I mean come on![[In-content Ad]]
