The Smashing Machine - 6.5/10. The Rock tries to act, and frankly feels like he’s stumbling as he goes outside his wheelhouse and tries and loses fights, which ironically makes it the most human performance from the Dwayne in a very long time. It’s also only the third most interesting story at the 2000 Pride Grand Prix, with Coleman’s struggles to keep his family above water only lightly touched up and the movie doing its absolute damndest to dance around Japan’s crisis of faith in pro wrestling as Kazushi Sakuraba went head to head with Royce Gracie after years of Japanese pro wrestlers getting their asses beat in real fights before Sakuraba emerged as a champion for Japanese puro.