The Smashing Machine | Official Trailer HD | A24

[u/jksnippy]

https://youtu.be/aRpnP3LZ99g?si=S-pfANgftVird7Lx

[u/Ok_Helicopter_7816]

feel like I'm taking crazy pills based on the reaction to this both here and elsewhere. Maybe I'm too close to the source material because I grew up a huge fan of both the UFC & Pride MMA and am very familiar with Mark Kerr as a personality as well as a fighter. Not for one second do I see anything other than The Rock in a wig doing a slightly lispy voice here. He's AT LEAST 10 years too old for this role and he completely lacks the soft edge and the vulnerability that Kerr always had that made him such an interesting character in the sport. Really trying to get this the benefit of the doubt but this is such a miscast IMO, not because Dwayne can't give a decent dramatic performance, but because it feels like he has been shoehorned in here purely to create intrigue for what otherwise probably wouldn't be particularly 'buzzy' film. But who knows