Enjoyable film similar to Top Gun in many ways

Rating: 5/10 (16 September 1999)

My Age: 13
Cole Trickle, played by Tom Cruise, enters the world of Nascar driving in Days of Thunder. Making his cars and telling him how to drive them (as he knows almost nothing about cars) is Harry Hogge, played by Robert Duvall, and owning his team is Tim Daland, played by Randy Quaid. After a bad accident on the track colliding with rival driver Rowdy Burns' car, he falls in love with a doctor at the hospital, played by Nicole Kidman. He and Rowdy Burns, played by Michael Rooker, also become friends.
Days of Thunder has many things in common with the earlier film Top Gun. First it has the same producers, Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, and the same star, Tom Cruise. The style of the films are also very similar. Both the films are also quite fun. I found Days of Thunder to be slightly better than Top Gun. Robert Duvall's acting performance was very good, and the friendship between Rowdy Burns and Trickle was also a nice touch. The ending climax is fairly exciting, yet the film isn't fantastic.
Australian Classification: M 15+: Occasional Coarse Language
Rating: 66 out of 100