If I were to describe faster in a single word it would be this: surprising. Granted, Faster was everything I expected it to be, a violent rage fueled revenge festival, but it was also a lot of things I wasn't expecting at all. The first and most surprising thing about this movie was that Dwayne Johnson is a good actor in the right circumstances. Either he was born to play this character or something else just synced up at the right time. Now I'm not saying that Johnson is a bad actor, I'm just saying that in my opinion, he hasn't been a terribly good actor in the past. In the case of Driver however, Dwayne Johnson's performance was excellent. His character has a constant agitated sense of restlessness. Even when he's not moving, you can sense the tension he feels and the intense emotions that drive him. There isn't much back story and I think that's part of what makes the movie great. You've got violent protagonist X within
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