People complain that he's the same character in every movie He does something different and people complain about that
I just had no interest in this movie.... I saw a trailer for the Bruce Springsteen movie with Jeremy Allen White and felt the same way.... I like the Rock and Jeremy, but these movies did nothing for me.
This seems primarily like a vehicle to rehabilitate The Rock's image among critics after a string of turds - particularly the Black Adam disaster. It feels very much like a calculated career move by his "people". He hasn't been the lowest-common-denominator automatic box office draw he was for a decade or longer, now he has to win over the critics. Look at his imdb credits - he hasn't really had a big leading role star vehicle movie that succeeded for 7 or 8 years. Prior to that he was churning out 2 or 3 schlocky leading man roles year, year after year. His last 3 big leading man movies were Black Adam, Skyscraper, and Rampage, all of which were disspointments to varrying degrees, particularly domestically. I think he's hoping much more for critical acclaim than bottom line box office here.
getting killed at the box office; thought this was a good project for the Rock to get taken seriously as an actor but a flop by A24
