Synopsis
Construction company owner John Matthews learns that his estranged son, Jason, has been arrested for drug trafficking. Facing an unjust prison sentence for a first time offender courtesy of mandatory minimum sentence laws, Jason has nothing to offer for leniency in good conscience. Desperately, John convinces the DEA and the opportunistic DA Joanne Keeghan to let him go undercover to help make arrests big enough to free his son in return. With the unwitting help of an ex-con employee, John enters the narcotics underworld where every move could be his last in an operation that will demand all his resources, wits and courage to survive.
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Cast
- Dwayne JohnsonJohn Matthews
- Barry PepperAgent Cooper
- Susan SarandonJoanne Keeghan
- Benjamin BrattJuan Carlos "El Topo" Pintera
- Michael Kenneth WilliamsMalik
- Melina KanakaredesSylvie Collins
- Nadine VelazquezAnalisa
- David HarbourJay Price
- Jon BernthalDaniel James
- Harold PerrineauJeffrey Steele
Recommendations
- 83
Tampa Bay Times
Snitch is grittily streetwise, and until its last 20 minutes fairly credible compared to other movies "inspired by" true stories. - 75
Chicago Tribune
It's an entertaining picture — pulp, coming from a place of righteous indignation. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Unusual for this sort of thing, Snitch is a film after which you remember the characters and actors more than the big action moments. - 67
The A.V. Club
Snitch toys with moral ambiguity and fatalism before losing its nerve and delivering the action-movie goods in a climax that hews closer to fantasy than the keenly observed realism of the film’s solid center. - 63
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
What gives it’s juice is the supporting cast. John Bernthal (“The Walking Dead”) is credibly wary as the ex-con John begs to get him in the door of the drug world. And the terrific Michael Kenneth Williams is the first dealer he meets, a guy who pulls a gun on him just to test him. - 63
Chicago Sun-Times
Who would have guessed Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson would deliver the best work of his career playing a guy who squares off against a pack of small-time street thugs. - 60
Variety
It's nice to have actors of Sarandon and Pepper's caliber onboard for the office-bound wheeler-dealer scenes, but mostly, it's the prospect of witnessing Johnson at the helm of an 18-wheeler as he rams his way through machine-gun fire that excites. - 50
Austin Chronicle
Unfortunately, Snitch is torn between being an ideological drama and a more traditional action film – and Johnson’s presence only contributes to the confusion.
