Dwayne Johnson (aka, The Rock) plays the owner of a trucking company. Johnson’s teenage son is entrapped by a “friend” into accepting a UPS delivery of drugs. The son is arrested and faces many years in prison. Johnson tries to persuade Federal Prosecutor Susan Sarandon of his son’s naivete, but gets nowhere. Sarandon plays a politically ambitious prosecutor who’s willing to reduce Johnson’s son sentence if Johnson brings her a bigger drug dealer to enhance her position with the media. Johnson meets with a drug dealer and offers to use his long-haul trucks to transport drugs. Snitch shows how untrustworthy the drug dealers and the Feds are in keeping promises. Most of you know Dwayne Johnson as an action hero, but in Snitch his role as a caring father who’s willing to take Big Risks to help his son is convincing and moving. The soundtrack is pretty good, too. GRADE: B+
You make it sound better than I would have expected. So how is the soundtrack, since you show that cover?
I had low expectations going in to see SNITCH, Rick. But the father/son theme was powerful. I like the soundtrack, but it does have some hip-hop music on it.
Nothing hones one’s acting skills than a stint in the world of professional wrasslin’.
Two seconds of hip hop is too much for me.
Ironically, Bob, The Rock is returning to professional “wrasslin'” this summer.