The Only Way To Learn About True Stories is Through a "Snitch"

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

Unless your dad is The Rock.

The Story:

Jason Collins (Rafi Gavron) is out of high school, getting ready for college...and enjoys a little weed from time to time.  So his friend tells him he's going to send him a package and to hold it until he gets there.  The package arrives, and it's filled with pills...and a sting operation to arrest him.  His mother (Melina Kanakaredes) is distraught, and turns to her ex-husband, and Jason's estranged father, John (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) who is a successful construction worker to get him out of jail.  The Prosecuter (Susan Sarandon) says if Jason is willing to set up other druggies, he'll get a reduced sentence.  Jason doesn't know anyone else, and refuses, so he's about to do some hard time.  Dad steps up and offers his services.  Soon he's in over his head as he goes from local distributor to working directly for the cartel.  Will John be able to save his son, or will the cartel find out he's a snitch and kill him first?

Everyone should already know by now, that if The Rock is in the movie, I'm going to be watching, right?  I love the guy, always have, always will.

The fact is, he's only made two movies that I really didn't care for, Be Cool and Southland Tales.

Both were bad, but Dwayne isn't the problem.

Even the best action hero can't save a weak script.

And therein lies the problem with today's movie.

Inspired by true events...yawn...heard it all before...

The movie doesn't ratchet up the drama or the tension to really pull you in as a drama or a thriller.  The action pieces are spread too far apart to make this one an action flick.

Instead, it sort of labors along on the Rock's broad shoulders, but even he can only carry a movie so far on his own.

Along for the ride is Barry Pepper, looking an awful lot like Daniel Bryan under the most ridiculous beard this side of Duck Dynasty, as an undercover cop.  Then there is the "whatever happened to" Benjamin Bratt, as the cartel leader.  It was nice to see him again, I don't think I've seen him in anything since Miss Congeniality.

Not a total waste of time and effort to watch it, but could have been much better.

Final Grade: B-... I'm afraid if I give the Rock a C+, he might come and punch me!

Rewatchability/Purchase Factor: Sorry Rock, I'm afraid this one isn't going to be added to the collection.  But don't worry, we'll always have The Tooth Fairy! :)