Truly appalling film-making

Rating: 1/10 (11 February 2005)

This movie ranks as one of the worst, if not the worst film I have ever seen. The casting for a start, is awfully bargain-basement, but I guess with a hammy plot, hammy script and hammy execution, you get hammy acting. The rest of it is pure, unadulterated garbage. A car flying over a line of trees and landing in a lake? A driver's girlfriend spurring him on over the team's driver intercom? Putting coins down on the track surface to check a driver's line? Team mates conversing with each other through full-face helmets while driving side by side down the main straight at 16 000 rpm? Drivers hijacking race-cars at a cocktail party, driving them (like they'd be fueled and ready to go) down a flight of stairs and then racing through the city without bending a spoiler? Rubbish rubbish rubbish! Only those severely ignorant of the world of motor-sport could give this movie anything more than a rating of 2. I will always remember Stallone for this movie because I vowed that it was the last time I would see anything with him in it. And it was.