If you liked Smokey and the Bandit or Dukes....

Rating: Null/10 (28 October 2002)

.....then this is the film for you; save you might wanna swap Burt for Vin, throw out the country and toss in rap/rap-rock and up the cartoony quotient jest a tad. I was Not impressed here, you can see the CGI imagery in the 'stunts' a mile away.
(spoilers below I am sure!)
And it's pretty bad when yer rooting for the TRUCKER-I was hoping he'd get Vin after he got Billy Bob there first. I donno-the flick was working alright for me til we find out that the whole Japanese street gang is a red herring, it's really Vin and co. who are the street robbers or whatever. You don't buy for a sec that they can actually DO this and get away without dying first try; much less not get shot.
Some of this is alright-the racing, the obvious KooKoo for Kars approach, the acting OK considering this is nothing more than 'Smokey and the Bandits', and maybe one of those old 50's hotrodder B flix too.

I found that my approach to watching this was to try and enjoy it for what it was-but the farther it wound on, the less appealing it got. The casting of the extras-the gals all right outta Playboy, for example-does kinda hurt even the windowdressing. Yeah sure folks.
Vin Diesel is alright here, nothing special. The rest-pretty generic, right down to the hacker/'Spike Jonz' from Three kings type-it's not original in the least.
So-did I like it? Ummmmmm-it's okay. Would I rec. seeing this over 'Smokey and the Bandit'? Not on yer life.
** outta ****