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Ups & Downs - The Smashing Machine Review (The Rock's Best Movie Ever?)

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🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Simon Miller is back with another episode of Ups and Downs, this time to discuss Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's latest film, "The Smashing Machine".


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Tee's and C's apply. 18 plus. Please play responsibly. Visit gamble aware.com. Hello, my friends. Simon the board idiot here. You probably know me from the ups and down series here on what culture. culture and given that the smashing machine, which does speak to Dwayne the Rock

1:10.3

Johnson, has just come out. I went to that there, cinema or theatre, you can call it whatever you want, and I have watched it. Given that I do have the finger of power, I thought, you know what, we rarely do this for films, but there is some buzz about the thing, so let's give the good bits and up and the bad bits of down for the smashing machine, the movie based of the documentary featuring Mark Kerr. Sounds good, let's go.

1:29.5

So we'll start with what everybody wants to get into which for The Smashing Machine, the movie based of the documentary featuring Mark Kerr.

1:28.3

Sounds good, let's go. So we'll start with what everybody wants to get into, which is Dwayne Johnson's performance, and he has been very vocal about this in all the media rounds he has been doing. This wasn't about box office, it wasn't about him wearing a grey shirt and travelling around the jungle. That's a meme that exists on the internet. this was about him going inside of himself and trying to act to try and assume a different role and I suppose give a performance like we've never seen before. And I would tell you right now, all of that is 100% true. If you are used to seeing him in jungle, cruise the Jamarji movies, I can't say that word for some reason, which are a lot of fun. Let's not pretend otherwise. Not every single film should come down and you like a ton of bricks. But this is a completely Dwayne Johnson and he really does, it's the one I'm even looking for, when he becomes another person. Now whether or not you think he's like Mark Kerr, only you're going to be able to decide. but there were actually points during this where I forgot

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