Alicia I love this movie so much

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Matthew D Booth Like "The Terminator" except he uses a list instead of the phone book. Root for the bad guy !!

Nadine Salakov "Faster" has it's positives and negatives, the positives is the Christian theme throughout, the main character "Driver" (Dwayne Johnson) has options to take the high road and not get his revenge, but he always tunes out the good advice and does his own thing anyway."Driver" has just gotten out of prison after being set up, and his goal is to kill everyone that set him up and that killed his brother, one thing that this movie seems to shy away from is that it was partly his own fault being in prison, he was a getaway driver which is a participant in a crime, so by law he is supposed to do some time in prison, but what this character is angry about is being set up for the other stuff as well as the obvious.At one point in the movie someone phones him and threatens to take his life, and "Driver"'s response is "think about it, because it's a dark road you're headed down", he knows that revenge is a dark road yet he takes that path himself.Another main character is a drug addict/detective simply titled "Cop" (played by Billy Bob Thornton) we see him basically take over a case that isn't his which is the case of "Driver" killing a bunch of people, on top of that "Cop" is trying to get back with his ex-wife who seems to have been a drug addict with him at one point and has gotten clean and is getting her life back on track also co-parenting their son, we see that she takes "Cop" back and ends up taking some of the drugs (she previously told "Cop" to give her the drugs, to help him, but it ended up becoming bad for her as she ended up taking those specific drugs) there is a powerful scene where she is high and she says some powerful words, that scene also shows how harmful things can get when you go back to the past which is what she did by agreeing to take him back."Faster" is a dark film at times with a few disturbing implications.There's another main character, a British Hit man, simply titled "Killer" (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) who is hired by a mysterious person to track down and kill "Driver", "Killer" has a girlfriend/turned wife who he has conversations with face to face and on the phone, they clearly put her there so he could have someone to talk to and so that viewers can find out more about him, if she was not there then he would be a mute, just chasing and trying to kill "Driver".The plot twist is shocking and hidden very well until the reveal.This movie obviously doesn't want viewers to become too attached to the characters hence the most important characters having no first name.The performances are well-acted, Dwayne Johnson does a great job portraying anger in a calm way as we see that he doesn't actually lose his temper, he is actually self-controlled even though he is killing people, he does it all with planning while keeping his anger visible but contained."Faster" is an action thriller that has a powerful story line, even though it's clichéd, there is an originality to this cine which is how "Driver" goes about killing people, this film has something that similar movies don't have which is that it doesn't have him stop to take breaks so to speak, he just literally goes to kill one person straight after the other, one by one.

SnoopyStyle Driver (Dwayne Johnson) is a feared man released from prison. His tattoo denotes a mythical ghost-like quality. He was a bank robber but his crew gets jumped by another group. They shot him in the head but he came back from the dead. Now he's out for revenge. Cop (Billy Bob Thornton) is a former addict and a divorced dad on the verge of retirement. He gets the case with detective Cicero (Carla Gugino). Killer (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) has beaten yoga. He is a self-made man with girlfriend Lily (Maggie Grace) and looking to conquer life. He is an assassin for the challenge and he get hired in a mysterious phone call to kill Driver.This is a hard-boiled stripped-down revenge story. It does need something more to put it over the top. I really appreciate the idea of stripping these characters to their base essentials. Killer does need somebody with more gravitas. He is too much of the Silicon Valley hipster. He needs to be cooler than that. The best way to push the stylistic vision is to bring on more violence. It needs to be harder and more brutal. Overall, the Rock is awesome and there are plenty of solid actors here. However, this needs to be a little faster.

Leofwine_draca FASTER sees Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson returning to the fold of action cinema after wasting his time in dumb comedies and kiddie movies. This is a straightforward revenge saga about a man betrayed by a criminal gang who finally leaves prison and sets out on a path of vengeance. None of it is remotely surprising, but the story is handled with a certain amount of finesse and there's nary a dull moment along the way.I've been a fan of The Rock since his days in THE MUMMY RETURNS and he acquits himself well with the material here, playing basically a brooding character who isn't much given to humour or dialogue. Supporting him is a typically kooky Billy Bob Thornton as a drug-addicted cop and Oliver Jackson-Cohen (WORLD WITHOUT END) as a dedicated hit-man. More briefly-seen cast members include Tom Berenger, Moon Bloodgood and Jennifer Carpenter, all of whom do well with the brief screen time they're allowed. Watch out for the opening song, a nice little shout out to the 1970s polizia sub-genre.The problem with FASTER is that the material is rather light and there's not enough of it to fill out the running time; as a result, we get a lengthy and uninteresting sub-plot about the British hit-man and his relationship with TAKEN actress Maggie Grace. Jackson-Cohen is miscast and in any case the character is a waste of time who drags down the enjoyment factor whenever he appears. I had no idea what he was doing here but this sub-plot alone is enough to knock a couple of stars off the rating. Other than that, FASTER is enjoyable enough and has plenty of twists and action to keep you watching if not entirely satisfied.