Dwayne Johnson, aka ‘The Rock’ is
known as a big action star but prior to watching this film, I was afraid
whether or not he could embody playing an extremely dramatic person and
thankfully, he pulls it off quite nicely. Whilst not anything spectacular,
Snitch does have an enjoyable and interesting story filled with good drama and
Dwayne Johnson’s best performance yet.
Dwayne Johnson plays a man named
John Mathews whose son, Jason Collins, has been captured and arrested as part
of a 10 year sentence due to storing drugs in his house which a friend, who as
part of a bait to reduce his life sentence, had given him. John Mathews must
now try to do everything that he can possibly do, without any use of action, to
try and reduce his son’s extremely long sentence due to him believing that he
is a failing father.
Yet again, the story isn’t anything
incredibly special but it certainly does have some great elements, particularly
the fantastic drama. This film is most definitely not an action movie, despite
having bits of action but more so a drama film that definitely goes in depth
with John as a character. It is not just a drama film done for the sake of it,
but one could say that it was done with some passion and certainly for that, it
pays off nicely. There were particularly heavy emotional scenes that were
carried out very well and overall, the story had you feeling sorry for John
Mathews.
The emotional core of the film is
carried out by Dwayne Johnson who gives his best performance yet. His
performance is simply like nothing you’ve seen before, not Toothfairy or G.I
Joe! As a character, John Mathews was written well and didn’t come off as an
annoying and overly frustrated and impatient man but a relatable and endearing
fatherly figure.
Whilst the movie was definitely
enjoyable and providing a great story, there were many things that I didn’t
quite accept in the film considering its overall serious and emotional tone.
The most important is the action sequences at the end of the film which were
definitely not that interesting simply because it didn’t fit with the context
of the rest of the film and the tone it had set. Some of these action scenes
are nice but simply, don’t add much and just seem like a Hollywood attempt to
make this film appeal to a wider audience.
John’s son, whilst innocent, is
quite a moron accepting to store drugs given to him by a friend. The fact that
all this happens in the first scene of the film and that this idiotic decision
is the cause of the film at times, upset me. It just felt like such an illogical
move to make and was rather distracting. Had he chosen to not accept the drugs
but was somehow delivered to him, I would’ve fully accepted it and his
character would’ve been a little more endearing but this foolish decision at
times, made me disengaged with his character and his relationship with John.
Whilst the story is always
interesting and endearing, the film just feels a little too long especially by
the half way mark where several scenes with Daniel James, a friend and
co-worker of John’s, are shown and giving much family backstory. Whilst all
important to the story, this is truly where the film slows down for me and for
a short period of time, I was disengaged from everything else that was
happening.
Laying the criticism aside, I
personally thought that ‘Snitch’ was a most interesting film that shows that
Dwayne Johnson has more of an action ability than what has been shown by him in
the past. It was an interesting and well- made film suffering from some unnecessary
action scenes, being overlong and having some rather uninteresting characters.
Grade- 7/10
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