Powerful

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

The best thing I can say about this movie is I only saw the last 20 minutes and so that's all I've lost. I guess the $26m budget all went on car rentals. The acting, plot, editing were all so bad I was embarrassed for everyone involved. Obviously they had no money left over and had to borrow a 70's soundtrack.Not that I hated fast and furious, I think they were fine films but this bumps them up to masterpieces in the genre.If some people out there actually enjoyed this movie please purchase a copy so this won't be inflicted on everybody else again.I'm going to go pour turps in my eyes now.Thank you

Movies rarely get worse than this.Zero plot. Zero acting talent. Zero entertainment. Zero genuinely exciting action / racing. Too many driving scene's so obviously done on trailers. So tired, of seeing film-makers believe that they can stick a pretty face into a film, with ludicrously unrealistic talent, and get away with it. I was so close to turning this crap off at 22 mins when the plane lands. Ludicrous from Infamous. Why are production values & talent so very low? Channel 4 films could have made 10x quality films that genuinely entertained on this wasted budget. This movie, which really should appeal to petrolheads, totally sucked the life out of car-based movies. Even the nice cars on show couldn't salvage it.I hope whichever mugs stumped up the $26m for this dire dog-poo effort went bankrupt, so that they can't dish out tat like this ever again.

Private racing is an expensive hobby for millionaires with money to burn. Amongst them rapper Infamous (Eddie Griffin), illegal arms dealer Michael (Angus Macfadyen) and Hollywood producer Jerry Brecken (Tim Matheson). Given the suitcases of money involved they need the best drivers to indulge into their pass-time. Amongst them is playboy Jason (Jesse Johnson), who works for his uncle Michael. His brother and an Iraq war vet Carlo (Nathan Phillips) is vehemently opposed to Jason being involved with such a ruthless criminal, but despite that backs him in his racing endeavours. Meanwhile a fortnight before a big race Infamous loses his best driver, who is busted by cops during an illegal daytime street race (stupido!). Devoid of options he tries to hire the leg-flashing cleavage-loving Natasha (Nadia Bjorlin), an aspiring musician, car workshop owner and at the same time the daughter of former racer extraordinaire. Natasha declines given how her father lost his life on the race track. And so...It is sometimes extremely hard to actually comment a movie of this type. I knew nothing about the movie beforehand, so after the first few scenes, I was expecting a low-budget racing movie with B-class acting and script. It turns out I wasn't exactly wrong, apart from the glaring fact that the money put into this movie was anything but 'low'. "Redline" can be easily described by one word: excess. An excess of everything possible. Leggy barely-dressed bum-shaking (and apparently promiscuous) girls (short skirts, lingerie and ultra short shorts are a must). Flashy expensive cars. Reckless driving and endangerment of life for a whim. Bags of money. Chic clothes. Alcohol. Barrages of music (mostly hip-hop). Testeterone driven fights. As well as cheap one-liners, cardboard characterisations, barely logical script and amateurish acting.If all you need is legs and backsides galore, motors revving and people splashing the cash feel free to indulge. Apart from the decent performances by the trio of richie riches there is nothing real worth to note in this picture. Even more so that the editing behind some of the race scenes make your eyes sore and are hard to follow. Instead of some emotionally driven races we have a lot of cool guys spectacularly crashing cars worth millions of dollars...I can't say how happy I am that the producer of this movie got hit hard by the flop. The amount of money burned on this craptastic flick is embarrassing.

There are plenty of reviews of the film that will give you a fair feel for the plot and acting. I was only interested in the cars.There are some great cars from 2002-2007, the camera-work on the cars is satisfying inside and on interior action shots while the sound, although occasionally suspicious, sounds pretty similar to the proper car. The cars are stock, with little of the Fast and Furious arcadey remixing.It's not a documentary but if you're a petrolhead, excuse the 5th grader plot and enjoy the motoring porn, it hasn't been this good for a while.