Very nice love scene

Rating: Null/10 (7 August 2003)

I had heard that this was a lousy movie, but I was pleasantly surprised. The acting was great. The story worked nicely. It was a nice, light movie, definitely entertaining.
I was particularly taken with the chemistry between Tom & Nicole. This is the best love scene I've seen with Tom Cruise so far. It really made me wistful about their breakup. She looks fabulous with a bit more fat on her legs than she has now. She's gotten almost emaciated recently. Tom was really at his peak in this movie: just stunning.
The only bad thing about the movie is that the race scenes are too long and very boring. On the one hand they are sort of necessary to the plot, but, on the other hand, they are intolerable, especially the incessant roaring. The great thing about video tape is that you can fast forward through parts of them. If you like to see people wrecking cars, you might like to watch these parts, though. I wonder, do people really intentionally bang into each other in these races like this? Is that allowed? It seems a bit like the old Roman gladiators who killed each other for the entertainment of the crowd. You have to wonder why this stuff is legal, if it really happens this way.