the kino park

   you can almost hear how badly film twitter wants to call him unrecognizable here *no spoilers here really, though I guess I mention general ideas related to the movie*           To talk of The Smashing Machine is really to talk of its star. This of course is the wrestler turned actor turned marketing maniac, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, a hulking mass of human muscle whose “films” of the last several years, or perhaps more fittingly brand extension campaigns, are essentially synonymous with the least critically acclaimed movies of the decade. Whether you are thinking of Red One, Red Notice, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle or Jungle Cruise , these are films about as acclaimed as their titles are diverse. While past movie stars of his luster and caliber were at least occasionally interested in lending their influence to more, to put it bluntly, artfully driven work, for some time Dwayne Johnson has been seemingly deadset on a spiral of increasingl...