The Smashing Machine Reviews Earn Dwayne Johnson’s Best Rotten Tomatoes Score

Following The Smashing Machine‘s world premiere at the 2025 Venice International Film Festival, A24‘s upcoming biographical sports drama from Uncut Gems director Benny Safdie has received its initial Rotten Tomatoes score. The Dwayne Johnson-led movie will arrive in U.S. theaters on October 3, 2025.

“The movie follows Mark Kerr, the legendary MMA fighter from the no-holds-barred era of the UFC at the peak of his career,” reads the official synopsis. “He struggles with addiction, winning, love, and friendship in the year 2000.”

What is The Smashing Machine’s Rotten Tomatoes score?

The Smashing Machine currently holds a Tomatometer rating of 84% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 19 reviews. It is now Johnson’s highest-rated live-action movie as a lead star, beating 2015’s Furious 7, which only has a Tomatometer score of 82%. Meanwhile, 2016’s Moana remains Johnson’s highest-rated leading voice role with a 95% score, while 2019’s Fighting With My Family serves as the former WWE star’s highest-rated movie for a cameo appearance with a 93% score.

The Smashing Machine is written and directed by Safdie. The ensemble cast also includes Emily Blunt as Dawn Staples, Lyndsey Gavin as Elizabeth Coleman, Oleksandr Usyk as Igor Vovchanchyn, Ryan Bader as Mark Coleman, Satoshi Ishii as Enson Inoue, James Moontasri as Akira Shoji, Yoko Hamamura as Kazuyuki Fujita, and more. In addition to leading the cast, Johnson is also producing alongside Eli Bush, Dany Garcia, Hiram Garcia, David Koplan, and Safdie, with Tracey Landon serving as an executive producer.

This marks Johnson and Blunt’s second collaboration, after previously starring together in Disney’s 2021 adventure movie Jungle Cruise. Besides the Benny Safdie-directed movie, they will once again reunite for a Martin Scorsese movie about a real-life mob boss, who was the leader of the largest organized crime syndicate on the Hawaiian Islands.

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