Smashing machine review
Artist: Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Ryan Bed, Olexander Usayak, Bas Ruton
Director: Beni Safi
Rating: ★★★★
Beni Safi’s The Smashing Machine MMA veteran Mark Kerr is as much celebration as it is a sarcasm on our passion for Phoenix-Fom-the-Eshes stories from the game world. In this slow period, there is no promise of a pleasant end. There is no provocative montage where the hero again finds his fascination, and there are no slow shots of the quarrel. The Smashing Machine is as far away from the world of Rocky and Warrior as a film on the fighter Games. But it lies the talent of Beni Safi. The film is about a person who is fighting his demons. The setting is casual. This life of Mark Kerr is unfit, both inside and outside the octagon. With the help of a brilliant performance of Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt, it becomes an attractive watch despite its slow pace.
What is the smashing machine about?
The film is the story of Mark Kerr, one of the early MMA fighters and how he performed in UFC and Japan in a period of 1997–2000. Before winning a big win in Japan, Mark loses his first match, which leads to the film. But coming back home, her relationship is breaking up, and the problem of drugs is facing a similar danger on her career.
The first thing in The Striking Machine that shocks you is that it lacks dramaticness, it is an unusual option about a player in the film. The film wears a documentary veneer, as if she is resting with a script without script in the house of Safi Mark Kerr. The play is present in the things that occur with the mark, not how they are presented.
Finally – Dwayne Johnson, actor
The film is intimate, which is clear from the choice of close-up, minimal background score and realistic sound design. Dwayne Johnson has certainly raised it from the best performance of his career. The actor has not even tried to use his acting skills since his innings as a prison warden in the Grid Iron Gang, about two decades ago. Many people wondered if he had anyone. But they are there. In a role that is devoid of attraction, Dwayne renounces his trademark smile and loses himself in Mark Cair’s personality. Makeup and prosthetics help, but it is a 53 -year -old man who punches above his weight, making man and athletes become reliable and likable. Their emotional change deserves praise as much as physical changes to look like Kerr.
Emily Blunt plays Don Staples, Kerr’s girlfriend (and later wife), and she is her true companion and rival in the film. The ease with which the actor introduces the volatility and poisoning of Don to the audience reduces faith. Dwayne and Emily bring their A-game because they show how co-dependent can a toxic couple be in this marriage story-malakat-rawie landscape. Emily’s vigorous but supplementary performance is easily one of the best of the year.
Film review
The smashing machine
MMA veteran Mark Cair’s biopic, the film describes his life and career, especially his fight and personal life by 1997–2000.
Mold
Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Ryan Bed, Olexander Usik
Decision
Dwayne Johnson has performed the best career, and Emily Blunt has proved to be a worthy foil in Beni Safi’s slow-but attempts.
to sum it up
The smashing machine never wants to be an entertaining film. Its fate at the box office globally is a sufficient indication. Beni Safi’s intention is to tell a story that is almost naked, limited to only plain feelings without any ornamentation. But there are moments when the film threatens to become a sports drama, and the sound design is the main guilty there. The thunder of every smoke and the crack of every bone resonates in the theater, which makes you feel as if you are on ringcide there, when these crazy people put their lives. The background score, when he looks, does his work and how.
The smashing machine disappoints you at your own pace, inspires you with a portrayal of Kerr’s personal life, but the end, yet makes you feel for the lost forearm of the 21st century – the 21st century. It is a tribute to those anonymous heroes, as well as the celebration of Mark Kerr’s passion (or perhaps prosecution).