Wish I had directed that movie. . . (Spoiler, Don't read if ya haven't seen it)

Rating: Null/10 (30 January 2002)

. . . that was a major waste of a GREAT opportunity to make an INCREDIBLE movie, but the director settled for a "middle of the road" film instead. The major flaw in the script (or lack there of) was that the movie could not decide what direction it wanted to go in. You had the story of the James Earl Spilner (the loser "wanna-be" detective), Dominic Toretto (the crazy Racer), his sister (the cute love interest of Spilner), "The Mad Scientist" (the mechanic with ADHD), Johnny Tran (the Asian gangster) and the rest of the bunch. The movie really neglected character development. We never get a chance to really meet any of them. The film just briefly touches upon them, doesn't elaborate, then moves onto something else.

Another problem was story lines: You have Spilner who's trying to nail the crime ring, you have Toretto who's trying to make money off of Racing and stealing some electronic shipments, you have Tran who's doing his own crime stuff, "the MAD SCIENTIST" trying to get money so him and his dad can go off and live somewhere nice, and so on and so forth. Any one of these story lines would have been sufficient to go on, but NO! The director couldn't make up his mind and just chopped up bits and pieces of them and put them together to make the movie. What a waste. Why didn't anyone review this script? This could have been a real classic, but they really missed out big time.
I hope someone else comes along and makes a BETTER version of this movie and does the cars justice. PLEASE!