"Torque" repeatedly mocks "The Fast And The Furious", apparently believing itself to be the vastly superior movie. "Torque" only wishes it could even measure up to that film's highly mediocre sequel, "2 Fast 2 Furious". It doesn't have the spark, wit, or heart of even that pale imitation of "Fast and the Furious".
Had one taken the exact script to "Torque" and shot it with tongue placed in cheek, it would have been a hilarious parody of overblown and over-serious summer action flicks. As it is, they shot this movie with utter seriousness, with such utter conviction that it was an amazing film, that it's still pretty funny... you're just laughing at, not with. It becomes even funnier when, after spending the film mocking "car movies", they wind up including a Nascar-style racer in one of the climactic chase scenes... which looks more like some sort of stunt show clip montage rather than a single chase and scene.
The movie seems to take quite a bit from a video game called "Road Rash", right down to the style of bikers, scenes on bikes of riding along trying to punch each other off. Sadly, the game was much more entertaining than this. The movie rips off other movies and several video games very heavily, and is generally not subtle about doing so. It never bothers giving an explanation for just how these biker toughs gained martial arts skills... perhaps they came free with purchase of their bikes.
It's hard to imagine a movie which rides so heavily on its explosions, stunts, and wiggling female flesh as being so full of itself, but "Torque" accomplishes that. It gets a rating of three only for a few clever lines, and the fact that I am indeed enough of a sap to give it an extra point for all the really neat-looking motorcycles.
Had one taken the exact script to "Torque" and shot it with tongue placed in cheek, it would have been a hilarious parody of overblown and over-serious summer action flicks. As it is, they shot this movie with utter seriousness, with such utter conviction that it was an amazing film, that it's still pretty funny... you're just laughing at, not with. It becomes even funnier when, after spending the film mocking "car movies", they wind up including a Nascar-style racer in one of the climactic chase scenes... which looks more like some sort of stunt show clip montage rather than a single chase and scene.
The movie seems to take quite a bit from a video game called "Road Rash", right down to the style of bikers, scenes on bikes of riding along trying to punch each other off. Sadly, the game was much more entertaining than this. The movie rips off other movies and several video games very heavily, and is generally not subtle about doing so. It never bothers giving an explanation for just how these biker toughs gained martial arts skills... perhaps they came free with purchase of their bikes.
It's hard to imagine a movie which rides so heavily on its explosions, stunts, and wiggling female flesh as being so full of itself, but "Torque" accomplishes that. It gets a rating of three only for a few clever lines, and the fact that I am indeed enough of a sap to give it an extra point for all the really neat-looking motorcycles.
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