I really wanted to like Faster.I like Dwayne Johnson,I want to have a true action movie star out there again.He seems to have staved off of the kid friendly films he had started to exclusivley make.In the end,this just isn't the return to form of the action film I was hoping for.Driver(Johnson)is an ex-con just sprung from jail after 10 years who is going to kill the people on a list he carries.In short they are behind his brother's murder,and part of the reason he is in jail.The movie starts off immedietly with the payback,with a very cool scene of Driver killing his first victim in the middle of the day in an office building.We are then introduced to Cop(Billy Bob Thornton)-see how we don't give characters names here,just their occupation.Cop is a dope fiend,and he is after Driver.Next up we are introduced to Killer,a billionaire,genius hitman who takes a payment of one dollar for his work because he likes the challenge.Killer is hired to take out Driver by a mysterious voice on a phone,but he is having second thoughts about being a hitman anymore.These three characters all feel to be from different films,and that sense of disjointedness really doesn't help.Overall 2.5 stars out of 5.
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