Faster

In an attempt to see a crazy, mindless action movie I saw Faster on Sat. It was similar to what it promised having Dwayne Johnson fun and gun for awhile and attempted to build the plot during his massacre, one flashback at a time. Billy Bob Thornton is a heroin addicted cop who is attempting to solve the murders of the Rock. The movie gets right after it and doesn't waste time with character development, a real plot, special effects, it's kind of refreshing for the first 30 minutes before they try to make up for lost time. The Rock's brother was murdered after a big bank robbery and the whole crew gets murdered except for the Rock, who was only shot in the base of the spine in the back of his head, so he was just fine of course. He gets out of prison and gets to killing the people responsible. He is a machine, it's pretty cool for the most part. They introduce this "Super Assassin" who is getting paid to stop him, but the guy is a total pussy and just pissed me off the whole time. His love interest is Maggie Grace, the girl from taken, but in here she's a blond DIMEPIECE, that and his cars are the only thing not fucking awful about him. The story takes some twists and turns that are pretty easy to predict, but it's still entertaining.

Bottom Line: 6.2 out of 10. It is what it wanted to be, an action movie. If you are in the mood for some mindless violence, this works.