Writers: Tony Gayton, Joe Gayton
Composer: Clint Mansell
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton, Carla Guigino, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Maggie Grace, Moon Bloodgood, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Tom Berenger, Mike Epps, Xander Berkeley, Michael Irby, Josh Clark
More info: IMDb
Tagline: Justice is swift. Vengeance is faster.
Plot: An ex-con gets on a series of apparently unrelated killings. He gets tracked by a veteran cop with secrets of his own and an egocentric hit man.
My rating: 7/10
Will I watch it again? No.
For the most part this flick is badass. Driver (Johnson) is a Terminator-style killing machine. When it comes to exacting revenge he's just like a Terminator in his execution. NOTHING gets in this guy's way. Cop (Thornton) has an interesting character arc that I totally dug even if if felt a little too obvious. Then the third big player in this picture is Killer (Jackson-Cohen), one that got on my nerves a few times, who is a very young hitman for hire tasked at taking out Driver. He talks too much and spells out everything to his girlfriend, to whom he marries. His arrogance gets old. The story is good enough and it has some interesting elements but it doesn't feel as thoroughly thought out as it needed to be. It's so close to being a very good movie but there's just enough holding it back that I'm not sure if I'll ever want to revisit it and I'm sure I'll be tempted. Oh, and isn't the the same wedding chapel from KILL BILL (2003)?
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