TOOO.......FAST!!!!!. Review on Torque Movie

TORQUE

Biker Cary Ford (Henderson) has returned to his hometown to reunite with his girlfriend Shane (Mazur) and take care of a little unfinished business. When he skipped town months ago, Ford was in possession of several motorcycles belonging to Henry (Schulze), a ruthless drug dealer and leader of the Hellions biker gang. Now Henry's putting the squeeze on Ford in an attempt to retrieve the bikes, which have something a little more valuable than gas in their tanks. When Ford is less than willing to cooperate, Henry frames him for the murder of Junior, younger brother of Trey (Cube), the fearsome leader of the Reapers motorcycle gang. With the help of his loyal buddies Dalton (Hernandez) and Val (Yun Lee), Ford must outrun anFBI agent (Scott) who's hot on his trail while eluding both the misinformed Trey, hell-bent on revenge, and the callous Henry, who's dead-set on getting back what is rightfully his. Racing across the desert in a perilous attempt to prove his innocence and convince Shane that he's worth a second chance, Ford must outrace his enemies if he wants to clear his name and live to ride another day.

''Torque''is a commercial pure and simple - all flashy visuals, impossible stunts, wild visuals and absolutely no depth whatsoever so those looking for a decent action movie can forget it. That leaves one other way to look at this movie - from a camp comedy aspect and from that perspective its slow to start but does get so stupid that one can't help but smile every now and then - its way too dumb and pointless to become a camp classic (ala ''Showgirls'', ''Anaconda'') but it can't be dismissed out of hand.

The problem isn't the plot, it's the way music video veteran Kahn directs the film with a total disregard for storytelling. He subverts every scene with jangled camera work, unnecessarily choppy editing, deafening sound effects and gratuitous digital whizzery. All of which muddles and dilutes the film hopelessly. The actors struggle manfully to cope with the chaos; Henderson emerges above the din as a magnetic leading man in search of a decent director. The cast around him also have their moments, although Cube does little besides snarl at the camera, and Beesley really needs to stop trying to play tough guys. Everyone looks great in his or her formfitting leathers, but watching them is the only joy in the whole movie.

The cast whether it be a pumped up Martin Henderson looking grim in the tightest t-shirts ever made, gothed up Jamie Pressly acting slutty with a switchblade, Ice Cube grumbling as usual, all the other chicks in the movie in tiny tops acting slutty, Will Yun Lee & Jay Hernandez as the hero's best friends who pretty obviously would prefer getting each other between their legs than their bikes, or what have to be the two worst written FBI agent roles ever - all of them seem to be having a blast. Scenes shift and change and some of them are cool - a brawl at a rock concert, a chase in a palm tree forest and over/through a train, the aforementioned catfight, and the hero/villain videogame showdown racing through LA's streets.

Well very recently last year bike flick Dhoom was inspired or to be honest coped from this and many other movies, The original remains original.