"The Stupid and the Ridiculous" Would Be More Accurate

Rating: 3/10 (7 January 2002)

This is one stupid movie! I wasn't expecting great art or anything, just a fun summer movie. But this movie is nothing but loud -- yet excitement-free -- car races and a lot of people posing. The plot is a note-for-note rehash of the Keanu Reeves movie "Point Break (1991)" although with cars instead of surfboards & parachutes, and much more ineptly done. (And Keanu, as bad an actor as he is, could act rings around the awful lead of this flick.) This does have Vin Diesel -- but as good as he is in anything, it's not enough to elevate this mess. With this, someone has achieved the unimaginable: they've actually made a movie that's dumber, more abrasive and more annoying than the Jerry Bruckheimer version of "Gone in 60 Seconds". This is easily one of the worst studio films of the past year.