Not realistic enough, yet it's the only racing movie available

Rating: Null/10 (26 September 2001)

At first I was so excited that Sly was going to make a movie based on one of the top racing series in the world. I am a hard core race fans, following closely Formula one racing and CART championship as both I regard as the top of open wheeler racing. I have high hopes for this movie
For me, the story is not too important for racing movies, as long as the action is good, and for this matter, as close to reality as possible since it is based on real life racing. Too bad, seems that Sly tries to hard to make the action incredible, instead for me it is too much. For me, it seems that Sly needed to watch more F1 race or CART race to represent how real racing happens. There is just too many dramas in this movie, and lack of details of a CART race weekend. The accident is too spectacular (although maybe not impossible in real life, but some is).
Bottom line? Hard core race fans might be disappointed. However, I recommend that they at least see this movie once. There is not much movie about racing, so this movie is still a blessing. For race fans, they might recognized their idols act in this movie. Drivers such as Montoya, Roberto Moreno, Paul Tracy, Adrian Fernandez even F1 driver Jean Alesi (if you even notice) can be seen in this movie. Me? I would still buy the DVD in the end, simply because I love race cars, and this one has them in it.