Awful awful stuff

Rating: 2/10 (9 April 2002)

***possible spoilers***
This is just absolute rubbish. I mean, this is probably the worst film about motor racing I have ever seen. The actors were wooden and the characters either bland or incredibly stupid. For instance, the team owner threatens to sack his rookie driver, who's already won something like five races so far that year, unless he wins another. It's his first year and he wins five? In my book that's a hell of a reason to keep him around.
But it's the racing scenes that really let the film down. The words 'Totally unrealistic' do not come close to describing it.
Then there's the chase in two racing cars through the streets of Chicago. All though it does look nice, it is very flawed. For one thing, Sly jumps in a car to go after the rookie, and the car just starts right up. Now I'm pretty sure that cars like that don't start with a key, but in fact need a special tool operated by a mechanic in order to get going. And why did the cars have a full tank of fuel?
Terrible stuff.