p-stepien
Which is hardly a compliment. But at least the quality is of high standard. The acting starts off on a very low note, but reaches average by the end of this flick.The story is a follows: Year 2008. In an alternate universe Germany is apparently a British colony (everyone speaks British English, even German policemen amongst themselves). In this Shakespearen language loving country the new craze is street car racing. Naturally these go hand in hand with hot crazed chicks and crooks. Katie Reed (Erin Cahill) is an orphaned kid, whose only heirloom is a body-shop and repair-shop. Indebted she tries to do everything possible to get $60 000, including having sex with the bank representative. And she has three days to do so.As she has two expensive race cars she decides to push up the ante and risk the cars for some street-car racing gambling. Honestly each of the cars looks to be worth some $50000-$60000. But instead of selling them she decides its better to risk them crashing and becoming worthless. I understand she's sentimental but we are told that the repair shop is the dearest thing on earth for her, not the cars... so why just not sell one of the two cars to get out of debt? That essentially is how ridiculous the plot is (that and for instance people cheering the winner of a race, whilst another car is burning and the driver may well be blown up any second now... and really no one actually wants this guy to die). Fortunately productions creds are very high and it looks like a decent budget was thrown into making this movie. Car chases are well choreographed (?) and if you like that kind of thing you may well ignore the stupidity of the characters and the shallowness of the script.
max-a-mn
The acting and storyline were worse than Starship Troopers... I was hoping to be entertained by this film since I am into tuner cars, all that. I was disappointed by cheap, old, ugly cars. Honestly my Mitsubishi Eclipse would destroy 90% of the cars in this movie. This movie was made in 2008? The clothes people were wearing, even if this is in Germany, reflected the clothing our parents wore in the early 90s that we have tried to forget. Also, the movie had a yellow tint to it for a good portion of the movie, which made it even more cheesy. With the bad camera angles used, I am fully confident that a few friends and myself could make a better movie. Thank goodness it only cost me $1 from red box to rent this; lord knows how it even made it into the red box machine.
trd_camry96
OK Movie, I guess. The characters acting is somewhat dumb and off. The only part that interested me was the naked boob...lol. I expect this movie to be an good action racing movie, but it turn out to be a low budget film clone FnF. Why did i said low budget? Well the cars used it the movies was old school and the characters are not that popular. 87 -92 supra and 90s mr2? hahahha i expect to see some 09 skyline or NSX. I didn't notice any familiar actors. Maybe they are famous in Germany but not to the USA. The scene where the cop threw his pee to capture the thieves was also stupid and awkward to add to the movie (i wonder if that is how they capture thieves in Germany).
lgibelli
If it were a parody of Fast & furious it would be a really good movie. Tragically the director of this B-movie was serious about it. During the movie we assist to many ... "stunts", some of them are done with cars, others are done with the plot. A friend of 'pizza boy' loses a race and as a result the opponent cuts his hand: 'pizza boy' arrives and incidentally he has got a box of ice with a bottle of champagne in the back of his car. Obviously it's normal for any German pizza boy to drive around the city always with a bottle of chilled champagne. And it's indeed a good idea, because if you happen to meet somebody who just lost a hand, you can always throw away the champagne and put the hand inside ice, while you reach the nearest hospital. And that's exactly what 'pizza boy' does. Another good laugh is courtesy of the scene when some thieves are arrested: a policeman throws a bottle of his pee in the air and shoot it. Caught by surprise, all these bad ass criminals stop and stand still in horror, totally defeated. And they get arrested. I cannot believe that other users commented that the plot is poor, but technically the movie is well done. I'd rather say that the plot well suits the technical level of the movie. Even a casual spectator would notice the amateurish quality of this movie: take for example the scene when pizza boy and girl enter the abandoned hangar at the airport. She opens a regular door! Only a few scenes before, the mechanic from the garage had gladly announced that a brand new pair of vertical doors have been installed in the car because they look such cool. Where are they now?
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