Torque (2004)
An improvement over The Fast and the Furious, if only because this film is flashier and it doesn't even pretend to care about its plot or dialogue (there's even a quick jab at one of Furious's most notorious lines of dialogue, which Jenny should appreciate if she ever sees this). The sensibility at work here seems to be Neal H. Moritz has a three-way with Hype Williams and Russ Meyer (the dialogue is pure pulp Meyer, so overbaked that it scrapes genius), and I'll be damned if it isn't a lot of fun. Yeah, it's silly and illogical and nothing more than a glorified B-movie... but when did we become so critical of B-movies? I still dig 'em.
Grade: B-
An improvement over The Fast and the Furious, if only because this film is flashier and it doesn't even pretend to care about its plot or dialogue (there's even a quick jab at one of Furious's most notorious lines of dialogue, which Jenny should appreciate if she ever sees this). The sensibility at work here seems to be Neal H. Moritz has a three-way with Hype Williams and Russ Meyer (the dialogue is pure pulp Meyer, so overbaked that it scrapes genius), and I'll be damned if it isn't a lot of fun. Yeah, it's silly and illogical and nothing more than a glorified B-movie... but when did we become so critical of B-movies? I still dig 'em.
Grade: B-
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