Snitch (2013) 6/10

Starring : Dwayne Johnson, Barry Pepper, Jon Bernthal, Susan Sarandon, Michael K Williams, Rafi Gavron
Director : Ric Roman Waugh
Running Time : 108 mins

When construction worker John Matthews (Johnson) discovers that his son Jason (Gavron) has been falsely arrested for drug trafficking, he makes a shady deal with the DEA to allow him to go undercover to catch some big time drug dealers in return for his sons freedom.

What can I say? Ordinarily, you can’t go wrong with a movie lead by Dwayne The Rock Johnson, but this was pretty boring stuff. The idea of an ordinary man going undercover to rescue a relative by taking down bad guys has been done before, over and over again, by the likes of Steven Segal and Jean Claude Van Damme. Granted, this probably had a little more budget than the kind of rubbish those two usually churn out, but sadly it had little or no warmth and left me feeling dissatisfied with the predictable Hollywood ending.

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