Torque (Widescreen Edition)

well,

+ for the visuals
+ for the actors
+ for a very sexy Jamie Pressely

- for the over the top stunts
- for the very visible change from road bikes to motorcross bikes made to look like road bikes doing the offroad stuff
- for all the fake CGI bike fighting

Bikes = Cool
Tattoos = Cool.
Realistic = NOT!!!!
Story Line = SoSo

yes this is not the best movie ever made but it is fun for me and my girlfriends to sit and eat popcorn, hoot at the acting and oogle cute guys. Our latest crush is Will Yun Lee and the scene of him barely covered by a sheet is worth sitting through the rest of the movie. Ladies check him out!!

I realize that this is one of those man movies that was never meant to make any sense and whose target demographic is fourteen-year-old boys. However, my canary in the coal mine in these situations is my husband. If he finds one of these films unwatchable, then it truly is bad, and not just so bad it is good. This was the case with "Torque". I tried to appreciate the stunts and the occasional humor that did work such as the truck from "Duel" still chasing Dennis Weaver after all these years, but it just can't compensate for a lame plot and dialogue that sounds like it was written by the reincarnation of Ed Wood. I think a somewhat rearranged quote from "Billy Madison", another silly man's movie that I actually enjoy if I'm in the mood for it, is most appropriate at this point: "At no point in your rambling, incoherent (movie) were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having (watched) it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."

I can see by the other reviews a lot of people are taking this movie way to seriously as a hardcore biker flick. It's just meant to be a fun movie with fast bikes. You can tell the directors are having fun with the movie by little things they throw in. Early in the movie you will see the car from the movie Duel being chased by the truck from the movie Duel which almost runs the bikers off the road. Also at the start of the movie when the street sign spins around it says "Cars Suck". Ice Cube plays the same sort of character he plays in almost every movie he does "angry gangster". The stunts are over the top, but they look cool! Hey it's just a movie sit back eat the popcorn and take it as such.