The Driver (Dwayne Johnson) has been released from prison after 10 years of hard time for his role as the driver of a getaway car in a bank robbery. The Driver has vowed revenge on the gang who broke in to the robbers hideout , stole the robbers money and killed the Driver’s brother. The Driver slowly, methodically tracks down and kills the gang who killed his brother. The driver is being chased by two men, the Killer (Oliver Jackson Cohen) a trained assassin who was sent to kill The Driver by the leader of the gang who killed the Driver’s brother, and a corrupt cop (Billy Bob Thornton(trying to get his life back in order by finding and arresting the Driver. The Driver has killed almost everyone on his list, but he still can’t find any sign of the person who recruited the people who killed his brother. Who is the leader of this gang? Does the Driver get his revenge?
This is a laughably simplistic, predictable, movie that so obviously gives away its ending that a two year old can figure out who the leader of the gang who killed the Driver’s brother is. And if the viewer is not bright enough to figure out the Driver’s backstory, one of the cops just restates it for you. The so called plot strains credulity past the breaking point, for example the Driver just walks into a hospital operating room and kills a man who he had just stabbed to within an inch of his life. That would never happen in real life. The movie is so unintentionally funny, I wonder if it should have been released as a satire. The Rock proves again, that he’s more wrestler than actor. Billy Bob Thornton sleepwalked his way through his role s the cop and is so far away from that sweet, endearing role in Slingblade, that it’s easier to believe that Body Snatchers stole Thorton’s body, than it is to believe that the same actor played both roles. Oliver Jackson Cohen tries to class this movie up with a Bristish accent, but it does not work.
Faster. I wish it was over, faster.
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