Snitch

"Dwayne Johnson stars in this actioner as a father whose son has been wrongly convicted after being set up in a drug deal. In order to clear his boy's name, he goes undercover for the DEA and enters the criminal underworld posing as a transporter."

"It's nice to have actors of Sarandon and Pepper's caliber onboard for the office-bound wheeler-dealer scenes, but mostly, it's the prospect of witnessing Johnson at the helm of an 18-wheeler as he rams his way through machine-gun fire that excites."

"Everyone needs a dose of heavy metal now and then, and if it comes with a dollop or two of social conscience, all the better."

"Snitch is a movie that cries out for the wiry B stars of yore: Robert Forster, a younger Tommy Lee Jones. And it would have occurred to a craftier screenwriter to make his hero’s walk on the criminal wild side a touch more tempting."

"It is so poorly directed that even Academy Award winner Susan Sarandon, playing a shrewish federal prosecutor, comes off as a hack straight off a soap opera."

"Mr. Johnson's screen presence, however charismatic, is out of sync with the rest of the movie."

"The dialogue is preachy, the drama too earnest and the action kind of sluggish, though it's hard not to get a jolt when Johnson jumps behind the wheel."

"Unusual for this sort of thing... a film for which you remember the characters and actors more than the big action moments."

"While not the balls-out action movie the marketing suggests, this Rock-powered family drama is not with its moments."

"Snitch toys with moral ambiguity and fatalism before losing its nerve and delivering the action-movie goods in a climax that hews closer to fantasy than the keenly observed realism of the film’s solid center."