Movie Review: SNITCH

Do you smell what the Snitch is cooking?  Snitch was the first of The Rock's 6,000 movies to be released in the calendar year of 2013. Along with these movies, The Rock won the WWE Championship at Royal Rumble in January, lost it to John Cena at Wrestlemania in April (in a match where he suffered a hernia), and yet still had time to film another 45,000 movies to be released in 2014.  I'm not quite sure how the most electrifying man in all of Hollywood has time for it, but I'm truly glad he does.  There's just something about Dwayne Johnson, that even if the movie doesn't look good, I'm still excited to see it.  Which led me to check out Snitch when it was released on video.



I'm not normally one to talk about DVD/Blu-Ray cover art, but this one is terrible.  First off, Dwayne Johnson's head looks like it's hella-crooked.  Then they put like the smallest picture they could find of a semi running into and flipping over a car on a bland gray canvas.  Granted the actual movie poster is the same sort of idea, but Dwayne's head isn't nearly as jacked as it is on the DVD and the color compliments things better. 

You ever feel like you're entering a vortex when watching a movie?  Where there's no possible way that you've seen the movie before but at the same time, it's felt like you've watched 100 different versions of it.  That's Snitch.  So basically The Rock is playing John Matthews (which is an absolutely terrible name), who's son's is in high school and just getting ready to enter college.  The son's friend wants to have some drugs mailed to his house and he'll come and get them, since he's worried about his place being raided.  The drugs show up but they've been tracked and the DEA raids the house and arrests the son. In order to prevent his son from getting the minimum of a 10 year sentence, thus ruining pretty much his life, John Matthews goes undercover for the DEA and tries to lay the smack down on all the drug cartels candy asses.

I was a little underwhelmed to be honest.  I kept waiting for this to become exciting and action packed and it never got there. As much as that has become stereotypical Dwayne Johnson, it should have been a more straightforward action/revenge film instead. By going the thriller route and having a focus much more on the DEA trying to shut down the drug trade instead, it just felt bogged down. If you like Dwayne Johnson, it's worth checking out as he gives a good performance, just wish it was a little bit more fun along the way.

Rating: 2 out of 5.