Snitch - Snitches get stitches

"Snitches get stitches," is a common urban phrase.  It basically means that if you tell the cops about any criminal activity that can get someone in trouble, then there may be some violent repercussions towards you.  This movie Snitch is quite the opposite of this phrase.  The premise of the movie is to save his son from unfairly spending 10 years in prison for drug distribution, a father decides to make a deal with the US Attorney General to become an informant and bring down a drug cartel.  In other words, a snitch keeps his son from being a prison bitch.

Snitch stars Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Susan Sarandon, Benjamin Bratt, and Michael Kenneth Williams (yes, Omar from The Wire is in the movie and the whole time I kept calling him Omar in my head).   Dwayne does a yummy fantastic job in this very serious role.  At no point does he look into the camera, raise one eyebrow, and smile, and sadly he never takes off his shirt.  I guess he wants to be taken seriously as an actor, and I try in this movie while mentally undressing him.  There's a C-list actor in this movie by the name of Jon Bernthal.  He does a great job in the gritty role as the ex-con trying to do right only to get sucked into this situation to help his boss get in good with the drug cartel.  I see him at least jumping to the B-list if he continues to take on roles like this.

I really enjoyed Snitch.  It was full of action and it often tugged at your heart strings especially when the son is always shown with more and more bruises and stitches because of his time spent in prison.  This movie is based on a true story which makes it even more interesting to know that this type of thing goes on sometime.  Dwayne Johnson does his thing and although he stays fully dressed, I think many women and men will enjoy it.  Teens should see this movie also, just so they can think twice about some of the decisions that they make.