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Faster
Directed by
George Tillman Jr.
R
2010
1h 38m
Action
,
Crime
,
and more
6.4
41%
52%
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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.
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Cast of Faster
Dwayne Johnson
Driver
Billy Bob Thornton
Cop
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
Killer
Maggie Grace
Lily
Carla Gugino
Cicero
Tom Berenger
Warden
Matt Gerald
Driver's Brother
Jeff Daniel Phillips
Cohort #2
Aaron Behr
Cohort #1
Jan Hoag
Receptionist
Courtney Gains
Telemarketer
Michael Irby
Vaquero
Josh Clark
Uniform
Xander Berkeley
Sergeant Mallory
Michael Blain-Rozgay
TV Anchor
Sidney S. Liufau
Kenny
Mike Epps
Roy Grone
Moon Bloodgood
Marina
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
The Evangelist
Jennifer Carpenter
Woman
Geraldine Keams
Preacher's Wife
Buzz Belmondo
Preacher
Ski Carr
Bouncer
Jim Gaines
Inmate
Mauricio Lopez
Prison Guard
Lester Speight
Hovis Nixon/Baphomet
Trisha Paytas
Stripper (uncredited)
Aedin Mincks
Tommy
Faster Ratings & Reviews
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February 8, 2025
Faster is a 2010 American action drama film directed by George Tillman, Jr., and starring Dwayne Johnson and Billy Bob Thornton. The film was released in the United States on November 24, 2010. Driver is being released from prison after talking to the warden who tells him he should be a better person. He exits curtly, breaks into a run, seemingly set on something. He runs until he retrieves his Chevelle LS5 SS; he then drives to an office in Bakersfield where he kills a man. Driver then goes to the man who gave him the car and the gun and forces him to give him the names and info for the rest of some list he compiled for Driver. Meanwhile, Driver is being tracked down by detective Cicero and Cop, a detective on the verge of retirement whose life is off track due to a debilitating heroin addiction. They investigate the office crime scene and video from the scene. Cicero gets a break in the case when she recognizes Driver. Later, a nameless hitman "Killer" is hired to kill Driver. Killer tells his girlfriend Lily that it is his last job, and while he seems to feel the conflict between his professional life and love life with Lily, he decides to go. Later, Driver heads to the second name on his list. It is an old man who films his own personal snuff films, and he is in the middle of filming himself taking advantage of a girl he drugged when Driver busts in the door and shoots him dead. Killer has tracked down Driver and initiates a gun fight in the hallway, but Driver escapes. This affects Killer philosophically, who proposes to his girlfriend and takes the case personally. It is revealed that Cop has a drug problem, along with his estranged wife Marina. Cop and Detective are investigating Driver's past and discover he was double crossed. Cicero remembered Driver from a video of his brother Gary's death, filmed by the man Driver has just killed. On tape, Driver is shot in the head by an unidentified man, but narrowly survives, needing surgery and a metal plate to fix his skull. Driver goes to his old girlfriend's house. She knows he's killing the people in the video and, after revealing she aborted their unborn child and has begun a new life, she tells him she hopes he succeeds. Driver then goes to Nevada to kill the man who slit his brother Gary's throat. He works as a bouncer in a strip club, and due to security, Driver couldn't bring his gun inside, so instead he stabs him several times with an ice pick and leaves him to die in the bathroom. Meanwhile, both Cop and Killer have gotten word that the man survived the stabbing and is in the hospital. Knowing Driver will go back to finish him off, they converge on the place. Driver enters the hospital and kills the man when he is in surgery. Cop attempts to bring down Driver but is unsuccessful, however Driver spares his life after seeing his badge. While driving away from the hospital, Driver encounters Killer. After a high speed chase on the freeway, Killer manages to shoot Driver in the neck after Driver shoots out his tires. Driver goes to the second-to-last name on the list, who turns out to be his stepfather. He believed that his stepfather was the one who arranged to have him and his stepbrother Gary killed, after they refused to give him a share of the money they stole in a bank job they pulled together. He finds out that his father died years before, and his mother stitches the gunshot wound on his neck before he sets off to finish the list. Gary was his stepfather's son from a previous marriage. The last man is a traveling evangelist, and after his service is over and everyone has left, Driver confronts him. The evangelist knows why he is there, and tries to tell him that he has turned his life around, begging for forgiveness. Driver spares him and goes to leave when he is confronted by Killer. Detective Cicero learns the true identity of the man who shot Driver. She hurries to the church with Cop already on the scene. Killer tells Driver to pick up his gun so they can have a true test of skill. But Driver declines, saying he has no fight with him. Killer then explains he wanted to be better since he could not walk when he was a child. Cop walks in and shoots Driver in the head. It is revealed that Cop was the man who shot Driver in the video. He gives Killer the money for the job, but he declines, because he wasn't the one who killed him. Killer then departs, telling Cop never to contact him again, likely signifying the end of his career as an assassin. However, Killer calls his wife, telling her that he is coming home. Cop calls his girlfriend, telling her that they will be okay because he closed the case and how he has been reading up on women. It is revealed in pieces that the Cop's wife Marina was Gary's girlfriend and a C.I for the Cop at the time of the robbery, and let the info slip about the bank job and the Cop then put together the crew to take out Gary and Driver. Suddenly, he is shot by Driver, who survived the shot due to the metal plate in his skull. Detective Cicero arrives on the scene after Driver has already left and finds Cop's body who promptly decides to cover up Cop's involvement in the whole mess presumably to allow his family to receive his benefits and retain some sort of dignity. The movie ends with Driver scattering his brother's ashes in the sea and driving off into the sunset as the avenging spirit of his brother Gary; simultaneously, the Evangelist begins a sermon on the topic of forgiveness, as Driver's mercy gave him a second chance at life and unburdened his spirit from the crimes that were committed 10 years ago.
Chesapeake Family Magazine
Roxana Hadadi
Revenge films bank on the audience's desire for the bad guys to get what they deserve, but the lack of any emotion in Faster invalidates that.
Chicago Reader
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
The film never outshines its influences, but as back-to-basics action filmmaking, it's often superb.
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
A hollow poser through and through.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
When it was over I'd almost forgotten what I'd liked about it in the first place, my initial goodwill shot dead by a script that refused to know when enough was enough.
Slant Magazine
Simon Abrams
By and large, Faster is what would happen if Michael Bay channeled one of Donald Westlake's Parker novels, recently back in vogue.
Movies.com
Jen Yamato
Empty, fleeting stuff that resonates only long enough for the next car chase/fight scene/shoot-out to come along.
UGO
Jordan Hoffman
Perhaps it was unnecessary, but there are moments of great art in Faster, teasing that perhaps George Tillman Jr. may one day make a great film.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Calvin Wilson
Only Gugino, one of the most underrated actresses in Hollywood, displays emotional complexity - and do you really need that in an action flick? Actually, yes.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Structurally "Faster" is as blocky as its star. Fancy camera angles and changes in hue cannot camouflage its stumbling, blunt-force narrative style, in which plot turns are dropped like bricks.
Washington Post
Dan Kois
By the end of this underwritten wanna-B movie, only the black-and-white muscle car is left standing with its dignity intact.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Despite much effort, neither Johnson nor director George Tillman Jr. can make this preposterous tale, the latest misfire from CBS Films, live up to its title.
Dallas Morning News
Gary Dowell
Johnson's performance is one of seething rage camouflaging emotional scars as ugly as the physical ones, a grim, single-minded figure straight out of a Jim Thompson or Richard Stark novel.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Faster turns out to be a better-than-average vendetta film with enough forward momentum to k.eep audiences glued (Elmer's, not Super) to their seats
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
After an initial burst of energy, things trudge along.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Tom Horgen
Johnson's movies work best when he's playing his funny opposite. Comedy is hard. Badass is not.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
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.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Rotate the plot, change the period, spruce up the dialogue, and this could have been a hard-boiled 1940s noir. But it doesn't pause for fine touches and efficiently delivers action for an audience that likes one-course meals.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
There is nothing subtle about "Faster," and that's the best thing about it.
Entertainment Weekly
Adam Markovitz
Faster ... leaves it to Johnson -- as deadly focused as a gunsight -- to make it all believable. The problem is, he can't..
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