An insult to the sport I love

Rating: 1/10 (17 March 2010)

I love motor racing and this was on TV so I thought I'd take a look. I don't know if it got a Razzie but it deserved one: even though it had racing cars, it was easily the worst film I've ever seen (and I've seen Under Siege).
Apart from the preposterous plot, what really got me was the race sequences. This is real 2- second attention span stuff, with a ridiculous number of highly-unrealistic crashes. I don't know which one was best: the car that went into the tyre barrier and, instead of being brought to a rapid halt, exploded as it burst through the other side of the tyre-wall; or the car that glanced the barriers, inexplicably went airborne, and then was shown in slow- motion... while all the other cars continued on the track at unabated speed- interesting twist on the laws of physics.
Most insulting was the total disregard of any characters' fates that were involved in these crashes. Ten cars in a massive crash, including some that get submerged in a lake: so what? Tyre lands amongst the spectators, ah well. I don't know what race marshalls would think about being portrayed taking 4 minutes getting to a crashed car, either.
Do yourself a favour and watch Le Mans, Grand Prix or Pixar's Cars instead. Or Days of Thunder: at least that knows it's having a bit of a laugh.