juneebuggy Well I didn't hate this which I expected to after reading multiple scathing reviews. I didn't watch it for the racing aspect though so I didn't have any problems with the "physics" of the driving as others seemed to, that was just noise to me. I viewed this strictly on an entertainment level where it worked just fine, even if the love-triangle/romance aspect did wear a bit thin.The actual race scenes have been filmed in a way that reminded me of 'Any Given Sunday', sort of ADD, flipping back and worth between shots of feet changing gears on pedals, hands on steering wheel, speedometer, giant drops of rain blurring vision, crowd shots, hot babes, the pit crew, the boss crew. Its colourful, frenetic, filled with obligatory crashes and pure entertainment.SS wrote the screenplay and takes a supporting role here as Joe Tanto a washed up former driver who is called back by race team owner Burt Reynolds to coach his current boy wonder Jimmy Bly (Kip Pardue) to the world championship.Bly is slipping in the rankings, cracking under pressure from his ambitious promoter brother and it doesn't help that he's also pursuing an affair with Sophia, the girlfriend of his nemesis, top racer Beau Brandenburg.The story for the most part focuses on relationships in the backdrop of Indy car racing. I found the characters all to be multifaceted and we witness them dealing with their individual struggles. Sly plays a sad-sack sort of guy who everyone picks on and I was very impressed with Gina Gershon as his ex-wife, beautiful but what a b!tch. Burt Reynolds face -wow his plastic surgeon was heavy handed with the scalpel, it's pulled so tight it looks freaky. He does a good job with his character though. 1/26/16

kai ringler welcome to the world of racing,, Slyvester Stallone tackles a role that's not really familiar to him,, race car driver. Gina Gershon, was very good in the movie,, not to mention easy on the eyes,, so was Estella Warren for that matter,, the racing scenes.. jargon between the drivers,, the tension, and the crash scenes were awesome,, to me what stole the show was the gracefully again Burt Reynolds,, he plays race car owner Carl Henry,, he brings in the veteran retired driver to help coach his rookie. sparks fly in the beginning, as you have drama between the two men, first about racing cars,, then about the women themselves,, overall a pretty good racing movie,, with a lot of great stunts and thrills.

JoeytheBrit The Wizard of Oz is more rooted in reality than this piece of garbage from the pen of Sly Stallone. At least aware that he's no longer young enough to play the male lead, he gives himself a supporting role which somehow manages to bag more screen time than the nominal leads – Til Schweiger and some other guy – who play a pair of racing drivers vying for the driving championship of one of those sports that looks suspiciously like Formula One but isn't. Stallone's character is called in as back up to the other guy's challenge. (I can't remember the guy's name, and the blandness of both his features and his performance mean I can't really be bothered to look him up). Anyway, this guy's a from-out-of-the-blue rookie who's suddenly suffering from the wobbles with the finishing line in sight. There's a few women involved, but they're just there to pad out the running time and deflect the possibility of anybody detecting a homoerotic undertone.Renny Harlin's direction is in-your-face flashy, replete with wandering shaky-cam shots, astonishing high-speed prangs that send wheels and stuff hurtling skywards, and two dozen cuts during any thirty-second conversation. He does manage to conjure up a couple of moments of tension, but the impression is that he's adopting all these razzle-dazzle techniques in a futile attempt to divert your attention from the dull plot and asinine script.Ah yes, the script… If I wrote this review with the same care and skill as Stallone wrote the screenplay for Driven, it would read something like this: The script was bad. I did not like the script. I wish the script was better because I did not like the script. It made me sad. Why do they make scripts like this? It made me sleepy. Find yourself. A talented cast would have struggled to mine anything of worth from this rubbish but this lot are hardly A-list: A German star speaking his second language, a model turned actress, the aforementioned bland guy whose name I've chosen to forget. Burt Reynolds shows his commitment to bankruptcy by playing the hard-as-nails crippled manager of the racing team from behind the plastic mask that became his face sometime in the mid-1990s – but he at least gets to sit down throughout and has at least a functional acting technique.

pauwilo I'm not going to bore you with a laundry list of what needed improvement in this film. Many of my peers have already done that. I'm just want to say, that in the day and age of shows like CSI Miami, this film did what is was supposed to do - entertain. CSI Miami is not necessarily known for it's plausible plots, but do I love it? Yep, every time Horatio crosses that screen. Beautiful scenery, a plot I don't have to read a companion novel to follow, and eye candy. A great way to unwind after a long day...If you watch the deleted scene content with narration by Sylvester Stallone, there might be more insight into what SS was going for, in terms of the distortion of one's values and to what length people will go to achieve fame. There were sub plots that got lost in the edit. Some of that would have made for better developed characters. And yes, not all of the race sequences or rescue for that matter, were completely accurate. Then again, this is Hollywood exercising their creative liberties. Sue 'em...If anything, Days of Thunder was more painful to watch.I don't have a problem with SS and Burt Reynolds on screen. OK, not the deepest script - but, how many guys look as good as SS at 54? Today at 63, he's still in great shape. Would love to see a sequel to Get Carter.Grab a nice glass of beaujolais, relax, and be glad you didn't pay full boat to watch it. Hip, hip hooray for cable!