It would be wrong to suggest that Beni Safi Smashing machine Dwayne “The Rock” shows Johnson in a completely new light. Johnson is playing a professional wrestler – and so the new role is a chip from the old block. Safi, however, is forcing one of the most popular mainstream stars of Hollywood to struggle with parts of his personality that is usually left untouched. Johnson gives a performance of immense pathos, intensity and depth – a one who looks bound to win the award recognition.
Co-star Emily Blunt (who worked with Johnson earlier Unstable action comedy Jungle kruz) Similarly, the wrestler’s loyal but emotionally unstable girlfriend sets a long way from his comfort field. He is his greatest support, and, many times, an agent of his destruction.
Plays like a film set in the late 1990s An opponent-rockyThis is the story Real Life Mixed Martial Arts and UFC Fighter, Mark CarrThe tone is deliberately down and downwards. Here is one of the main pleasures in which the picture changes many of the traditional sports film conferences on their heads. Safi’s screenplay focuses as much as the pain reliever of the mark and the addiction of the opioids as for his adventures in the ring.
Of course, Mark is also addicted to winning. He explains the sexual pleasure of applying his wish to his opponent in front of 40,000 Baing fans. He will go to the peak to achieve that high. If he needs to stick a finger in his opponent’s cut to maximize his pain and thus a win, he will do this. After moments, however, he must have been trying to console the man he has just presented.
Mark’s victory also puts a huge toll over itself. He is in constant physical pain, and his mental state worsens. When the mark is on its lowest eb, Don (blunt) feels the most happy because it is the most dependent on it. She prefers parties, boz and high-jink, and is not an ideal partner for an athlete who is trying to keep himself in shape.
Safi shot the film in deliberately, natural fashion, such as it is an observation documentary rather than a dramatic film. The camera is always in hand. Inner – whether gym, hotel, sports venue or mark house – are burnt to darkness. The quarrels themselves are ill. Mark fought in a period when anything seemed to be, from killing his opponent with knee in the head or secondary to his eyes.
Ukrainian Boxing World Champion Olecuser UCIC has a supporting role in the form of Igor Vovachin, which is one of the most difficult, most vicious opponents in the mark. Usyk does not give it a camp like Mr. T. rocky But directly plays the role, although sometimes the gap-dancing smile shines that has put the fear of God in many of his British opponents.
Safdie does not completely avoid Clich. Mark’s bond with his coach and fellow fighter Mark Coleman (played by Real-Life MMA star Ryan Bedder) is almost as strong as his relationship with Don. The film is part of the old coaches who share their knowledge. “Pain is temporary, proud is forever,” one emblagson his T-shirt.
This, however, is a story in which winning finally seems very hollow. Real Wafi Safi says a chokehold on its audience, checking the physical and emotional weaknesses of Mark and Don in such forensic expansion. Smashing machine They may not provide the pay-offs that expect audiences expects more traditional sports films, but it is raw and weak that Johnson has ever been on screen. Once you expose it to him, you will not see his specific action movie stunt again in the same way.
Dir: Beni Safi. Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, starring Olexander UCIC. 123 minutes, certified 12A.
‘The Smashing Machine’ is in theaters