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Faster

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Original title

Faster

Year

2010

Running time

98 min.

Country

United States

Director

George Tillman Jr.

Screenwriter

Joe Gayton, Tony Gayton

Cast

Music

Clint Mansell

Cinematography

Michael Grady

Producer

CBS Films, Castle Rock Entertainment, State Street Pictures

Genre

Action. Thriller | Revenge

Synopsis

After ten years in prison, a man known as "the driver" (Dwayne Johnson) is released with a single goal: to avenge the death of his brother, which occurred years earlier when they both pulled off a heist and were betrayed. Thirsty for revenge, he goes looking for those involved one by one... but two men are on his trail, the cop (Billy Bob Thornton), a veteran lawman about to retire, and the assassin (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), a young, self-centered hit man with a knack for the art of killing.

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Awards: 2011: NAACP Image Awards: nominated to Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture.

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Critics' reviews

"'Faster' is stripped for action without a moment wasted on unnecessary dialogue, exposition or nuances"

Kirk Honeycutt: The Hollywood Reporter
"A pure thriller, all blood, no frills (...) Rotate the plot, change the period, spruce up the dialogue, and this could have been a hard-boiled 1940s noir (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: rogerebert.com
"Grim but holds the attention; it does not, however, offer the kind of mindless action excursion that many will be anticipating."

James Berardinelli: ReelViews
"The Rock deserves better than this ho-hum revenge picture."

Keith Uhlich: Time Out
"'Faster' starts to lay on a heavy-handed message about the importance of forgiveness. That isn't what anyone showed up to see."

Keith Phipps: AV Club
"Tillman does a nice job of calling into question the assumption, shared by most genre films, that vengeance is the only right course of action."

Tirdad Derakhshani: Philadelphia Inquirer
"Most of it is pretty predictable, familiar stuff. But Dwayne Johnson has a presence whose sum is more than the total of his acting parts (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"

Claudia Puig: USA Today
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