History Film / Faster

* BadassDriver: Driver remarkable talents behind the wheel are showcased are multiple points during the movie: perhaps mots noticeably during the flashback to TheHeist where Driver's talents are the only reason the gang gets away at all. The alternate ending (available as a deleted scene on the DVD) focusses on a combination car chase/gunfight between Driver and Killer.

* BaddassDriver: Driver remarkable talents behind the wheel are showcased are multiple points during the movie: perhaps mots noticeably during the flashback to TheHeist where Driver's talents are the only reason the gang gets away at all. The alternate ending (available as a deleted scene on the DVD) focusses on a combination car chase/gunfight between Driver and Killer.

* SuffMovie: Old Guy tapes the murder of Driver's brother and his gang. Cicero says that the tape of that murder was found when they busted an illegal hardcore video ring. The tapes Cicero and Cop find in Old Guy's apartment indicate that he has been making and distributing snuff tapes in the intervening years.

* SuffFilm: Old Guy tapes the murder of Driver's brother and his gang. Cicero says that the tape of that murder was found when they busted an illegal hardcore video ring. The tapes Cicero and Cop find in Old Guy's apartment indicate that he has been making and distributing snuff tapes in the intervening years.

* WorthyOpponent: Killer sees Driver as one to him.

''Faster'' is a 2010 movie starring [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]] and Creator/BillyBobThornton. Johnson plays [[NoNameGiven "Driver"]], a getaway driver just released after ten years in prison, who immediately goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the gang of thugs who killed his gang (including his older brother) and stole their bank heist money. Thornton plays "Cop", a burn-out junkie of a detective looking to close out his career on a high note by bringing Driver in. Thrown into the mix is "Killer", a BloodKnight hit man looking to complete OneLastJob before retiring to marry his girlfriend.

** [[spoiler:In the AlternateEnding Killer is able to get off the first shot at Driver, only for his slide to lock back on an empty magazine. He reaches for another magazine and gets shot by Driver.]]

* CarFu: In the AlternateEnding [[spoiler:Driver and Killer play a game of chicken with their {{Cool Car}}s.]]

* CradlingYourKill: Happens in the AlternateEnding. [[spoiler:To the Killer.]]

** In the AlternateEnding, [[spoiler:in which Killer dies, a red-eyed Lily is shown practising her shooting [[TranquilFury with a determined look on her face]].]]

** [[spoiler:Not originally. In the AlternateEnding Killer sees Driver's car and can't resist turning back to take him on. He dies and Lily is shown planning her own revenge on Driver, while Cop's ex-wife has gone back on drugs.]]

* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailer showed scenes from the AlternateEnding (the CarFu confrontation between Driver and Killer) making the film look like an action movie as opposed to a revenge drama, and audiences to expect a final confrontation that never actually happens.

* RidingIntoTheSunset: Driver drives into the sunset after scattering his brother's ashes. An AlternateEnding has him being ChasedOffIntoTheSunset by police cars.

* XMarksTheHero: Not really shown except in the AlternateEnding, but Driver has an X scar on the back of his head from his surgery.

%%* CradlingYourKill: Happens in the AlternateEnding.

** [[spoiler: One of the targets Driver kills had a son and when he found out that the person calling him on the phone was Driver, he swears to kill him, only for Driver to respond if he's prepared for that road.]]

* KickTheSonOfABitch: All of Driver's targets [[spoiler:save for the one he doesn't kill]] deserve what's coming; as they were involved in double crossing them and killing his brother.

* MsFanservice: Killer's girlfriend, [[spoiler: and later, wife,]] doesn't mind spending an entire scene in her underwear with her robe open.

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''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1433108/ Faster]]'' is a 2010 movie starring [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]] and Creator/BillyBobThornton. Johnson plays [[NoNameGiven "Driver"]], a getaway driver just released after ten years in prison, who immediately goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the gang of thugs who killed his gang (including his older brother) and stole their bank heist money. Thornton plays "Cop", a burn-out junkie of a detective looking to close out his career on a high note by bringing Driver in. Thrown into the mix is "Killer", a BloodKnight hit man looking to complete OneLastJob before retiring to marry his girlfriend.

* BadAssDecay: Killer starts out relatively cool and intimidating but by the end confrontation, he's nothing more than a whining ManChild who wants Driver to acknowledge his "skills."

* BloodKnight: Killer.
* BottomlessMagazines: Averted, Driver is seen reloading his HandCannon several times using a speedloader.

* ChekhovsGun: The [[spoiler:metal plate]] in Driver's [[spoiler:head. Which saves him from Cop's bullet.]]

* CradlingYourKill: Happens in the AlternateEnding.
* CycleOfRevenge: [[spoiler: One of the targets Driver kills had a son and when he found out that the person calling him on the phone was Driver, he swears to kill him. Only for Driver to respond if he's prepared for that road.]]
** [[spoiler:Also shown with Lily in the AlternateEnding in which Killer dies, and a red-eyed Lily is shown practising her shooting [[TranquilFury with a determined look on her face]].]]
* DirtyCop: [[spoiler: Cop. The fax Cicero looks at shows he was in the Rampart division, whose CRASH unit was involved in a notorious corruption scandal. See Wiki/TheOtherWiki for details.]]
* DownerEnding: Amazingly, almost impossibily subverted.
** [[spoiler:Not originally. In the AlternateEnding Killer sees Driver's car and can't resist turning back to take him on. He dies and Lily is shown planning her own revenge on Driver. And Cop's ex-wife has gone back on drugs.]]

* DullSurprise: Let's put it this way--not going down as one of The Rock's best performances, unless breathing heavily and crying makes you worthy of an Oscar.

* GottaKillThemAll

* HitmanWithAHeart: Killer
* InHarmsWay: Killer is a millionaire adrenaline junkie who is compensating for being a sick little boy when he was younger. He is always looking to "master" the next thing so much that[[spoiler: he only charges one dollar as a hitman.]]
* KarmaHoudini: Everybody still alive at the end of the movie. [[spoiler:Except Cicero, who didn't have any karma to face up to.]]
** Not everybody, just [[spoiler: Driver and Killer. Cop]] is dead.
** [[spoiler: Also Cop's wife who was responsible for everything that went wrong in the first place.]]
* KickTheSonOfABitch: All of Driver's targets [[spoiler:save for the one he doesn't kill]] deserve what's coming.

** MrFanservice: Killer himself spends an entire scene doing yoga in his underwear.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge
* ShowDontTell: The film struggles with this problem constantly. Several incredibly important emotional scenes are simply told rather than shown, such as Driver's father abusing him as a child and his girlfriend aborting his son while he was in jail without telling him, and thus barely have an impact on the viewer.

* TranquilFury: It's a DownplayedTrope, but still. Driver's kills are committed with a stern and vaguely annoyed look on his face.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Driver's "ghost" tattoo. Brought up early as a virtual "Do Not Fuck With Me" sign. Never seen again after the first half-hour.
** StoryboardBody: It does get an explanation, just a very brief one; it's his score board from the fights he had in prison. And by "fights", we mean "CurbStompBattle / NoHoldsBarredBeatdown " that he handed out.
* WomenAreWiser: Played irritatingly straight - all three main male characters have more moral, emotionally mature female counterparts. In fact Cop even has ''two'' such counterparts! [[spoiler:While we eventually find out Cop's wife was the one who setup Driver and his brother she seems to feel more guilt about the whole thing.]]

* DirtyCop: [[spoiler: Cop. The fax Cicero looks at shows he was in the Rampart division, whose CRASH unit was involved in a notorious corruption scandal. See TheOtherWiki for details.]]

* BillingDisplacement: Tom Berenger is listed in the credits before Oliver Jackson-Cohen (Killer) or Creator/CarlaGugino (Cicero). He's in the movie for maybe three minutes as Driver's prison warden.

''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1433108/ Faster]]'' is a 2010 movie starring [[DwayneJohnson Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]] and Creator/BillyBobThornton. Johnson plays [[NoNameGiven "Driver"]], a getaway driver just released after ten years in prison, who immediately goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the gang of thugs who killed his gang (including his older brother) and stole their bank heist money. Thornton plays "Cop", a burn-out junkie of a detective looking to close out his career on a high note by bringing Driver in. Thrown into the mix is "Killer", a BloodKnight hit man looking to complete OneLastJob before retiring to marry his girlfriend.

* TranquilFury: Driver's kills are committed with a stern and vaguely annoyed look on his face.

** [[spoiler:Also shown with Lily in the AlternateEnding in which Killer dies, and a red-eyed Lily is shown practising her shooting with a determined look on her face.]]

The film marked a return to the action movies that were Johnson's bread-and-butter before switching to [[RaceToWitchMountain more family-]][[TheToothFairy friendly fare]].

The film marked a return to the action movies that were Johnson's bread-and-butter before switching to [[RaceToWitchMountain more family-]][[TheToothFairy friendly fare]]. It did not do well at the box office, due to a combination of a sparse plot that kept going on random tangents into Driver's backstory, the "action" consisting of a couple of car chases and Johnson strolling into a building, shooting his target in the head and leaving, and strong box office competition including ''Disney/{{Tangled}},'' ''[[Film/HarryPotter Deathly Hallows Part I]]'', and ''Film/{{Unstoppable}}''.

The film marked a return to the action movies that were Johnson's bread-and-butter before switching to [[RaceToWitchMountain more family-]][[TheToothFairy friendly fare]]. It did not do well at the box office, due to a combination of a sparse plot that kept going on random tangents into Driver's backstory, the "action" consisting of a couple of car chases and Johnson strolling into a building, shooting his target in the head and leaving, and strong box office competition including ''Disney/{{Tangled}},'' ''[[Film/HarryPotter Deathly Hallows Part I]]'', and ''{{Unstoppable}}''.