Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Michael Ledo Jason (Rafi Gavron) has friends that do drugs. One of them sends him drugs through the mail, which he was half-heatedly opposed. Jason gets busted as did his friend who turned witness against Jason, claiming he was going to help sell the drugs. Jason is faced with a mandatory 10 year sentence, along with all the other innocent people in prison unless he snitches on everyone he ever smoked a doobie with.Jason refuses and would rather get beat up in prison. Dad (Dwayne Johnson) however has a different idea. He cuts an unorthodox deal the federal prosecutor (Susan Sarandon) that would give Jason a get of of jail free card, if he delivered them a felony conviction. Dad employs the help of an ex-con (Jon Bernthal)in his construction firm to make the contact. As Dwayne gets deeper and further up the food chain, the federal prosecutor wants more.Clearly Dwayne is in way over his head. We really don't feel the peril as much as we should because it is Dwayne Johnson who we have seen out run, out gun, and beat up armies of evil men.The acting was decent, even from the support cast. The plot and dialouge needed some help. The film attempts to show that mandatory sentencing laws are unfair and judges should have more leeway in sentencing, but it doesn't inundate you with the theme so as to interfere with the film.A good semi-family film for Rock fans. One you might want your teen to see. This is another story based on true events. This one is more believable as it doesn't include aliens, ghosts or zombies. The explode on contact cars are still hard to swallow.Parental Guide: No sex or nudity. No spoken F-bombs. A brief F-bomb in graffiti background most people will miss.

cinemajesty "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)

juneebuggy I'd never heard of this movie before, not sure how I missed it but I was initially excited because the story sounded interesting with a poster that promised lots of action and I like Dwayne Johnson, Barry Pepper and Shane (I mean Jon Bernthal).It ended up being a decent enough drama but not at all what I was expecting. The story itself is sort of plodding and slow and not fun in any way -also not action filled until the last bullet riddled car/big-rig chase scene. The Rock does give one of his more thoughtful performances though (reminding me of Faster) and its been based on an intriguing true story.Johnson plays an everyday guy here, a construction company owner and desperate father who goes undercover for the DEA to infiltrate a drug cartel in order to lessen his sons (mandatory) 10 year prison sentence after he gets wrongly accused of trafficking drugs in a set up drug deal.Jon Bernthal was super impressive as the ex-con employee 'John' convinces to be his "in" to the drug underworld. Barry Pepper also wowed in another character role and is almost unrecognizable as an undercover FBI narcotics officer. Michael K. Williams stays true to The Wire typecasting as Malik the drug dealer and Susan Sarandon was a surprise bit of casting as a hard-hitting DA.All in an okay movie, nothing outstanding or particularly memorable. 1/11/16

cheesustoast I am not sure if certain details within this film are completely accurate. It is a story at the end of the day... but this is thrilling and chilling at the same time.The whole film is dark, serious and chilling but the intensity mounts at points in a way that is extremely effective. It is not just the action scenes. I really have to reconsider the acting talent of Dwayne Johnson. He has come along way from the over-the- top, silly wrestling acting. He is up there with some of the best. I am not messing around.I do not think that it is so much a moralizing story as it is a people story. It is the intensity between the people that matters. I do not subscribe to the idea of simple "black and white"/"good and evil" type mentality. The story is balanced enough to not show this kind of reality. It does, however, manage to show some extremely dark gray and light gray to good effect though.Great job!