Cannes Film Festival 2013

Trailer Grades: 'Due Date,' 'The Tourist,' 'True Grit,' 'Faster'

Plus: 'Gnomeo and Juliet,' 'Faster,' 'I Am Number Four,' 'Country Strong' and more

"Faster"

"Faster"

Lowdown: Ex-con Dwayne Johnson is out for revenge, looking to find and execute the group of men that killed his brother. Billy Bob Thorton is the lawman that will try to stop him.



Grade: B-: I can watch Dwayne Johnson kick down doors and shoot scumbags until the cows come home. I can also watch Billy Bob Thorton relentlessly pursue his man for the length of a feature. The trailer sort of loses me when Jake Gyllenhaal lookalike Oliver Jackson-Cohen arrives on the scene in the company of "Lost" girl Maggie Grace as the Rock's nemesis bounty hunter. They just don't  convey the menace necessary to hook me, at least not in the trailer
 

Photo Credit: CBS Films

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