A good old fashion assss whoppin! Don't get me wrong I enjoyed watching The Rock kick down doors and blow people away with his hand cannon but he's suppose to be this bad-ass who fought to survive prison yet the only hand to hand we get it a 30 sec fight in the toilet.
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Yeah, I know what it's missing. It's missing an opponent who was worthy of the hero. I'm convinced that the big reason it failed is that no one could give "Driver" even a semblance of a good fight throughout the movie.
Driver was simply the toughest badass in North America who went around dispatching evildoers in a matter of seconds.
Now you might say, "Dude, that wasn't the point. It wasn't ABOUT Driver having a worthy opponent. It was about his thirst for revenge and the toll that was taking on him and blah blah blah blah." Whatever. Even if that's true (and it might be true) it doesn't matter.
Because once you know that your main guy's pretty much superhuman and that no one in the world can defeat him in a fair fight, it kills the experience. There's no tension anymore. There's no suspense. All you've got is just a walking, talking, justice-dispensing God who can't be stopped by man or beast. And where's the fun in that?