I’m not going to lie, I wasn’t the biggest fan of The Smashing Machine. Though the 2025 movie features one of Dwayne Johnson’s best performances (at least his most transformative), I felt like Benny Safdie’s biopic about Mark Kerr was lacking when it came to story and plot. Don’t get me wrong, the movie was a great story of sacrifice and redemption and featured some of the best-written characters I’ve seen in a long time, but at times it felt like something was missing.
However, there is something I haven’t been able to stop thinking about ever since I saw the movie a little more than a week ago, and that is Safdie’s unparalleled attention to detail. I spent way too much time looking into this aspect of the movie before its release, and yet I was still blown away. Let me explain…
