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  • 2010
  • R
  • CBS Films
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2010
  • R
  • CBS Films
  • 1 h 38 m

Summary After 10 years in prison, Driver has a singular focus - to avenge the murder of his brother during the botched bank robbery that led to his imprisonment. Now a free man with a deadly to-do list in hand, he's finally on his mission...but with two men on his trail - a veteran cop just days from retirement, and a young egocentric hitman wit...

Directed By: George Tillman Jr.

Written By: Tony Gayton, Joe Gayton

  • 2010
  • R
  • CBS Films
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2010
  • R
  • CBS Films
  • 1 h 38 m

Faster

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 24 Critic Reviews
44
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 132 User Ratings
6.5
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Summary After 10 years in prison, Driver has a singular focus - to avenge the murder of his brother during the botched bank robbery that led to his imprisonment. Now a free man with a deadly to-do list in hand, he's finally on his mission...but with two men on his trail - a veteran cop just days from retirement, and a young egocentric hitman wit...

Directed By: George Tillman Jr.

Written By: Tony Gayton, Joe Gayton

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 24 Critic Reviews
44
29% Positive
7 Reviews
50% Mixed
12 Reviews
21% Negative
5 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 24 Critic Reviews
44
29% Positive
7 Reviews
50% Mixed
12 Reviews
21% Negative
5 Reviews

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80
Dec 13, 2010
The film never outshines its influences, but as back-to-basics action filmmaking, it's often superb.
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63
Dec 13, 2010
Grim but holds the attention; it does not, however, offer the kind of mindless action excursion that many will be anticipating.
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Generally Favorable Based on 132 User Ratings
6.5
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66 Ratings
40% Mixed
53 Ratings
10% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 132 User Ratings
6.5
50% Positive
66 Ratings
40% Mixed
53 Ratings
10% Negative
13 Ratings

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10
mishael
Sep 16, 2019
dope movie make second one this please get us nother one the rock in please
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10
ogower
Dec 26, 2015
I genuinely enjoyed this film. It was a simple story with complex and extremely well acted characters with an artistic feel throughout. The characters felt real to me, with real lives and back stories that you glimpsed, like Billy bob's character lay in his bed with his child. I'm not particularly gifted at reviewing so i'm not putting this into words very well but this was a rare film for me and i loved it.
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58
Dec 13, 2010
Faster starts to lay on a heavy-handed message about the importance of forgiveness. That isn't what anyone showed up to see.
By Keith Phipps FULL REVIEW
50
Dec 13, 2010
Tillman, who made a splash last year with his hip-hop hit "Notorious," does a nice job of calling into question the assumption, shared by most genre films, that vengeance is the only right course of action.
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50
Dec 13, 2010
This is meat-and-potatoes (and bullets) action filmmaking, although, really, that title's got to go.
By Marc Savlov FULL REVIEW
38
Dec 13, 2010
In Faster, it's a car, not actors, that drives movie.
By Dan Kois FULL REVIEW
0
Dec 13, 2010
No matter how guilty our knucklehead-protagonist's victims supposedly are, it's difficult to maintain a rooting interest.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
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10
dogboy
May 12, 2011
Getting very sick of clueless 'professional' critics. They need to go back and take a good long hard look at themselves. This movie was fun to watch and I enjoyed it. Didn't try to be anything it wasn't and to say the car was the best thing about it is just plain stupid. This movie had nothing to do with cars.
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bfoore90
May 17, 2015
Big Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson fan here, overall this movie was pretty decent. Enough action to satisfy the action gurus out there, The Rock was pretty good as well though he maybe had like 10 lines of dialogue in the entire movie. I'd call this a good call given that his most dramatic scenes aren't believable. Making up for his silence are the creatively named Cop and Killer who both explore relationships and contemplate the bookends of careers. The story is simple and straight to the point, a man out looking for revenge on those who double crossed him and murdered his brother. Though it could have been alot better, i guess you could still take it as it is.
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Official
Nov 11, 2013
"Faster" is one of those movies that does not have a clear good or bad guy and overall does not bring out the goods. The cinematography was great, though, and has some thrilling scenes. I wouldn't say that this film would be a recommendation, but if you're interested, it's worth a try.
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3
whit
Dec 15, 2010
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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eagleeyeviking
Sep 8, 2017
Neither as smart as it thinks it is, nor as entertainingly stupid as other B action films, “Faster” falls in that pit of stoic, instantly forgettable trash.
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Production Company CBS Films, TriStar Pictures, Castle Rock Entertainment, State Street Pictures
Release Date Nov 24, 2010
Duration 1 h 38 m
Rating R
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Tagline This year, the holidays come faster.
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Awards

Teen Choice Awards
• 3 Nominations
Image Awards (NAACP)
• 1 Nomination
World Soundtrack Awards
• 1 Nomination

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