Ever since the successful premiere of Benny Safdie's TheSmashing Machine at the Venice Film Festival recently, there's been a lot of praise for Dwayne Johnson's impressive leading performance in it, as well as predictions for major awards nominations for him. However, none of it comes off as a surprise to attentive viewers, who have been following Johnson's acting career and therefore are aware of his versatile range. While usually being lauded as a perfect action hero who also possesses impressive comedic chops, Johnson also demonstrated his ability to be self-aware and blend in perfectly into the most unexpected and bizarre cinematic worlds. One of the early but memorable examples of this in the actor's career is Richard Kelly's Southland Tales — a wonderfully off-the-rails 2006 extravaganza, which can remotely be described as a dystopian satire thriller with musical numbers.
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