Great racing scenes, dumb crime scenes

Rating: 6/10 (6 August 2001)

Not a bad movie overall - some of the racing scenes, especially the first one, were truly awesome. If they had just stuck to the racing, it would have been a great movie. But they had to write in this really dumb crime plot involving hijacking of moving 18 wheeler trucks with little tiny Honda racecars. I mean, what truck driver wouldn't just run over these little cars and be done with it? Later on in the movie, motorcycles are hijacking moving cars at gunpoint. Who in a car wouldn't just run over the motorcycles? What reality do writers for movies like this live in? But all in all, the racing scenes are good enough that it's probably worth seeing the movie anyways, but just be prepared to laugh at these ridiculous, needlessly complex hijacking scenes.