Moral of the Red Band Faster Trailer: Don't Kill Dwayne Johnson's Brother

I've suspended disbelief for years of revenge movies, but for some reason one question wouldn't leave my mind during the Faster trailer: Why do murder gangs always mess with the families of ex-cops, ex-marines, or guys as huge as Dwayne Johnson? Do they get some masochistic thrill from the challenge? Or is it sheer stupidity? Any guesses? Whatever the case, in Faster an apparently huge gang kills Johnson's brother, and so they must die. One by one.

Most of the trailer consists of Dwayne Johnson not accepting apologies and shooting people in the head. Since it's red band, the head shots are pretty messy. Billy Bob Thornton plays a cop trying and failing to capture Johnson, and at some point, Maggie Grace shows up in a bikini along with some fast cars. It all looks very standard, but it gets a few points for the shameless right-wing tag line that sounds right out of the 70s: "Slow Justice is No Justice." Nice work, marketing team.

Verdict: Pass.

[via IGN]