Dumb but not boring

Rating: Null/10 (23 February 2002)

All I can say is I'm glad I wasn't in the parking lot of a cinema after THIS movie let out. Lots of fast driving and dumb dialogue, but the movie does some neat things with scale, the photography's good, and the actors do better than you'd expect with the kind of script this is -- ESPECIALLY Michelle Rodrigues, who is Badness on a Stick. Once Vin Diesel took the New Guy under his wing, I figured this was gonna be POINT BREAK with cars instead of surfboards, but the story tosses in one or two minor plot-twists that sorta keep you guessing. ONE THING -- did anybody notice how clean the language was in this movie? Did they clean it up for a PG 13?