BA_Harrison
It has been said that music video director Joseph Kahn's feature debut Torque was never intended to be taken seriously, every scene intentionally taken to ridiculous extremes, thereby mocking testosterone fuelled petrol-head films such as The Fast and the Furious and its sequels. I'm inclined to believe this: the characters in this mad motorbike movie are all incredibly clichéd whilst the over-the-top action has to be seen to be believed. This level of dumb surely doesn't happen by accident.Of course, that doesn't automatically give Torque a get out of jail free card—there are still aspects that are difficult to endure, even if the film as a whole has been designed to lampoon mindless popcorn fodder for teens: the plot is virtually non-existent, with the non-action scenes merely dull padding, while Martin Henderson makes for a very bland pretty-boy hero. Still, it's hard to hate too much on a film that features motorbikes leaping on to the roof of a speeding train, has two biker babes fighting each other using their vehicles, and closes with one of the daftest high speed chase scenes I can remember—200mph through crowded city streets.5.5 out of 10, rounded up to 6 for IMDb.
michaeljhuman
This movie is SO bad it's goodHighlights- * Girl vs girl bike fight * Motorcycles on train sequence * Palm tree scene * Dialog so bad I could not stop laughing * Some good music ( if you like harder rock songs)There's actually some good stunts in here. The plot is awful, the dialog is awful, the acting is pretty forgettable except for some really bad acting which is almost memorable :)Watch this for mindless entertainment if you enjoy such things. Watch it for the totally unrealistic action scenes. Laugh at the awful, clichéd, macho dialog. Pop open a beer, or pour a good cocktail before hand and relax and enjoy.The movie is actually underrated, because given the proper mindset when watching this movie, it's quite entertaining. People who underrated it, probably by people who expected it to be of a higher quality. Ice-T is in here, that should have been a clue of the quality :)
sandover
Wow! This is retinal feast! A bit hammering perhaps, with somewhat awkward rhythm here and there hey, what am I talking about here? It is as if Hitchcock has exploded, with a hand from Rosenquist and other pop artists.Stunning visuals (the frame with the cow on the left, palms on the right, descending and framing in some hilariously cross bikers ready to kick butt - and then the chase in the palms, is dreamlike and intoxicating fun all at once!), no-nonsense quickness, astonishing palette, bravura rhythms in just one shot, amazing stunts, tongue-in-cheek visual gags that augment the joy, all this interlocking in masterful scenes - what can one want more? Pop Art lives and kicks ass! Kudos to Torque.If you want to skip this, or condemn it, for the sake of more seriously serious film-making, don't say you were not warned!
Ben Sisson
Where do I start??? Let's start with the story. Been there done that, but it's with bikes and there are not a lot of biker movies (compared to the amount of street-racing car-movies). Therefore, the movie makers had an opportunity. Did they use it? No way!!! The actors are terrible. My favorite terrible actor would be Ice Cube. This guy is grumpy in all his movies but it doesn't add up to his acting skills. Hilarious to watch. His brother in this movie (Fredro Starr) is really annoying. His dumb facial expression when he is knocked off his bike by the slipstream of fords biker gang in the beginning of the movies says it all. I hate this guy, and therefore it's a plus point his character gets killed off pretty soon through the movie. Monet Mazur: Beautiful actress, really!!! But she really can't act. "looks like you did b****" Hear this quote at the end of the movie and cry. Matt Schulze is good as the villain. He was cast perfectly for this movie. Next stop, the action. It was terrible. These sequences are so bad, you would be better off enjoying James Bond making mistakes during filming. A Hummer that makes a bad jump and spirals through the air. It would spiral-crash back on the road or where ever, right? WRONG!!! They could of saved a part of the Porsche if physics where not miss-used in this movie. I won't even go on about the impossible climax chase between henry and ford at the end. Batman couldn't of done that stunt even if he was on steroids. Overall, a pretty terrible movie. **** out of 10* ---> killing junior in this movie (too bad he didn't receive a razzy) * ---> Casting Matt Schulze * ---> Trying something different other then car movies * ---> Hearing Nickleback at the end of the movieMy advice? Watch Wild Hogs :)
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