recommended

Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Amazing what a good script, on the spot direction and solid supporting actors can do for a movie. Dwayne Johnson, always touted as a wooden action hero delivers a fairly credible performance and so do the rest of the crowd, specially Jon Bernthal, Barry Pepper and Susan Sarandon in a remake of some of her past roles. Not much depth but remember this is supposed to be an action movie; thus, you're in for a pleasant surprise: the action is measured -even subdued- spot-on and very credible. It doesn't require the viewer to switch off the brain.Good guys stay good, bad guys make you fear and hate them, and then they get what should be coming to them. There's well played drama sprinkled in and the movie is tense and gripping throughout. A solid 8/10!

"Snitch" starring and also produced by Dwayne Johnson for approximately 15 Million U.S. Dollars, who keeps his head high in this R to PG-13 down-rated version of a family father busting out his son from jail by going undercover into a crime syndicate, directed by Ric Roman Waugh, who hardly finds thrilling angles with a majority of scenes put on hand-held cinematography by Dana Gonzalez even in tension dialogue scenes as the prosecutor's office interior, completely out of place, visualizing a further more weak script based on a television documentary.Nevertheless actor Dwayne Johnson had brought enough enthusiasm toward the project to carry the character of John Matthews through a 100+ minutes movie without further delays nor dull moments; under additional support by a rock-solid supporting cast starting out with actress Susan Sarandon, lifting the suspense level with the pushy character of prosecutor Keeghan and a hard-boiled Agent Cooper, portrayed by Barry Pepper and Jon Bernthal reprising an arresting state of the character of Shane Walsh in the early years of the television series "The Walking Dead".Yet director Ric Roman Waugh does not turn the corner to come to sufficient resolutions in this picture, too shallow stays the main character's conflicts, who stands in a gun-store to make a purchase in order to secure merchandise on an action-peaking truck ride, where the pay-offs have been missed out with one or two shots from the shotgun rifle out of a truck window; "Snitch", which had been pushed out of a 2012 release in order to attract an higher frequency of a U.S. domestic audience with a mid-February release in 2013, which at least returned the production budget with approximately 42 Million U.S. Dollars at the U.S. Box Office, making the movie a calculated hit for the producers consortium surrounding star vehicle actor Dwayne Johnson.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

Snitch is set in a post-divorce era. A son (Jason), somewhat rebellious, is suckered by a mate who, gaining brownie points for the DEA, tricks him into receiving illegal drugs. Jason in turn is offered a deal: sucker others in the drug's network and you'll get time off jail. He is basically an innocent, doesn't know anyone to be in the network, and won't sucker in the innocent as he was. His father (John), a successful businessman, offers to help the DEA for his son's early release. This requires contacting the local drug's network, and this (in eventum) requires bribing an employee and reformed criminal (Daniel). Daniel likes his boss and advises him to stay away from drugs, but Daniel finally yields to the temptation of serious money if he helps John make a contact: Daniel's family is very hard up and John seems serious.Daniel knows a nasty (Malik), who gives John a drug's job. The DEA could have gotten a good arrest out of that, and honoured their deal to release Jason early, but decide that John's success as a courier can help them nail a bigger fish in a strong drug's cartel (El Topo). It soon turns out that John's second trip will be a one-way trip, leading to his murder in Mexico: the DEA is morally divided. John, put in the picture, redraws the plan to give himself a fighting chance of survival. At this stage Daniel understands John's family motivations, and himself a family man, helps John's plans. Without going further, suffice to say it's a nail biter, and (to my ears) F-word free. A gritty film, showing real courage and concern for others, as well as dirty tricks within the DEA, where motivations are mixed. Was left hoping the cartel's snitch would get her comeuppance. Would have loved Cordell Walker to have shown up and spared me my fingernails, too.

"Snitch" was actually a nice change of the usual movies that you see from Dwayne Johnson. So whether or not you enjoy that change is, of course, a matter of personal preference. I enjoyed it, because it was a step away from the usual one-man-takes-down-a-whole-army-type of movies that he makes.And it is also the type of movie that shows that Mr. Johnson has a talent for acting and not just portraying muscular action hero types. So thumbs up for that.The story is about a man being forced to work for the DEA in order to take down a Mexican drug smuggling cartel in order to reduce the sentenced time of incarceration for his son.Story-wise, then the movie was easy to follow and progressed at a great, constant pace. It was a shame, though, that the movie really didn't throw any surprises to knock over the audience, and as such, the movie was a bit too streamlined and predictable.Alongside Dwayne Johnson, then "Snitch" did have some great names to the cast list. Especially Barry Pepper stands out in this movie, as he was so well-cast for that particular role, not to mention having a great appearance going on with that look. But also Jon Bernthal and Susan Sarandon were doing great jobs with their given roles. It was a shame that Benjamin Bratt didn't have a bigger role, because he is always great in his movies."Snitch" is a nice and entertaining movie that is well worth watching, for both fans of Dwayne Johnson and for people who enjoy an action-thriller with a proper storyline.