Dwayne Johnson not only impressed the critics presence at the Venice Film Festival with its heartfelt turn as UFC legend Mark Kerr in Benny Safdies “The Smashing Machine,” He also moved many. Can a “rockingissance” be in order? After that success, A24 has revealed a new trailer for the film, out in theaters October 3, which also stars Emily Blunt Like Kerr’s girlfriend and possible Mrs. Dawn Staples.
What impressed many people in Venice was how Johnson delivers not only a more personal performance, like many blockbuster actors who go “seriously”, but, with the words from the IndieWire critic Ryan Lattanzio, is the overall part of a movie that is “Anti-Awards-Bait.”
As lattanzio put it, reporting from the lido, “Safdie’s first solo-direct feature after helming episodes of tv’s ‘The Curse’ and Creatively Breaking Up With His Brother Josh Sounds Like The Stuff of AWARSON BACH Athletic soul, physically transformed in a steroidal, vein-bulged-muscles sense, on the rocky path to redemption. ”
He continued, “But”The crushing machine“Isn’t it, and it’s not the” wrestler “either (but that a Bruce Springsteen song also plays in this film In a moment of Mark’s Rock Bottom, you will sit in the main space in Darren Aronofsky’s melodrama). Safdie’s movie is rather a sweet duet between a remarkably unnoticed Johnson and a blowing good, blue collar and newly blown Emily Blunt as his co-dependent girlfriend and possible Mrs. Dawn Staples-Kerr. Johnson is an ideal match for Safdie and the material, bridges without sensation or cloying affects the connection between who land is at the top edge (scary, undefeated, all primal machismo energy) and who he is outside the cage (wounded, insecure, cauliflower-heard). All this is to say while “Smashing Machine” does not play as the Easy Awards Catnip, Johnson earns a significant position among this year’s price -growing. “
Critics especially praised chemistry between Johnson and Blunt, which channeled their real friendship to convey a true sense of ease between their characters. Johnson even went so that he called an blunt his “best friend” at Venice’s press conference for the film and suggests that she helped a lot with getting her more ambitious artistic instincts and the desire to go deeper into a role.
A24 releases “The Smashing Machine” in theaters on October 3. See the new trailer below.
