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35
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28
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22
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Torque
Warner Bros.
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for violence, sexuality, language and drug references
Starring
Ice Cube,
Martin Henderson,
Monet Mazur,
Matt Schulze,
Jaime Pressly,
Jay Hernandez,
Will Yun Lee,
and
Justina Machado
Set in the fast-paced world of motorcycle racing, this action movie shows what happens to biker Cary Ford (Henderson) when he is framed by a long-time rival (Schulze).
| GENRE(S): |
Action
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Matt Johnson
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Joseph Kahn
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: May 18, 2004
Video: May 18, 2004
Theatrical: January 16, 2004
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| RUNNING TIME: |
81 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
80
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
A terrific action picture, fast-moving, studded with great stunts and smart enough not to take itself too seriously. Amid a plethora of high-minded, big-deal, year-end Oscar contenders, it offers a welcome contrast (and respite).

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
The movie is as adolescent as it sounds, but Kahn keeps your eyes popping with truly nonstop action and some of the most outlandishly inventive effects you've ever seen. And of course Cube is so supercool it's worth the price of admission just to watch him.

75
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The movie is a guzzle of yahoo-Mountain Dew empty-calorie satisfaction: A quick blood-sugar high, an eyeful of bikes and bosoms, and you're out of the theater in 80 minutes. And on a bleak winter's day, that can be meal enough.

70
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
Zippy, stylish fun.

67
Portland Oregonian
Marc Mohan
The movie is simple fun.

63
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The first three minutes convince us we're are looking at a commercial before the feature begins. Then we realize the whole movie will look like this.

63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Stephen Cole
A good stupid movie: an energetic send-up of a discredited genre that does for motorcycle movies, say, what Jonathan Demme's debut, the 1974 drive-in classic, "Caged Heat," did for chicks-in-prison flicks.

63
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Invites you not simply to identify with its low IQ but to cheer it on. This is a movie that knows you know it's dumb, and that's enough to make the whole thing worth tolerating.

60
Variety
Joe Leydon
A spectacularly trashy and aggressively flashy motorcycle melodrama in which computer-enhanced action scenes, unbound by gravity or logic, are choreographed, photographed and edited to resemble video-game stratagems.

60
Film Threat
Kevin Carr
The plot, characters, story and dialogue were all secondary - or lower. With this in mind, Torque really wasn't that bad. In fact, with this in mind, Torque was actually pretty good.

50
Village Voice
Nat Johnson
Thankfully, Torque knows what it wants to be (which is more than you can say about other recent biker-boy flicks) and flashes a jocular self-awareness about its genre affiliation.

50
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
Although the press notes liken the movie to "Easy Rider" (why not "Lawrence of Arabia" while you're at it?), the obvious comparison is to the "Fast and Furious" franchise, which shares the same producer. Actually, the closest spiritual cousin may be "Pee-wee's Big Adventure."

50
USA Today
Mike Clark
The cycle thrills here are everything: flips, collisions, a chase across the top of a fast-moving train and even a zoom down the aisle of one of the train's cars as the passengers take it in stride.

50
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Despite all the bike chases and bullet-dodging, the real sport here is Xtreme posing.

50
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
The film occasionally pokes fun at itself, although not nearly as often as it should. I don't recommend it for anything more significant than a bottom-of-the-barrel rental or a desperation cable choice, but it delivers what it advertises, and I suppose that could be considered a virtue.

50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Ellen A. Kim
Purely an easy-to-digest testosterone flick anyway, with standard bikini babes, roaring engines and bikers who circle each other slowly in the dust before they rumble.

40
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Torque knows its one big joke, dusty chaps, heaving bosoms, and all, which makes it all that much easier to swallow. And forget.

38
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
It may entertain you if you don't mind senseless stories and screaming soundtracks.

38
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
It's a simple-minded celebration of speed that pretends to be nothing else, even throwing in the occasional wink to acknowledge its own silliness.

38
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Torque isn't a movie, it's an 81-minute soda commercial.

30
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
By Monday, Torque will look like a period piece with its expiration date, January 2004, prominently displayed. The inevitable movie-inspired video game will appear more realistic.

30
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
With the exception of a few dazzling special effects and a digitally enhanced camera move or two... it's also a towering bore.

30
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
With the exception of a decent train-top chase, Torque is all vroom and no action.

30
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Delivers state-of-the-art freeway thrills tenuously held together by an absurd plot, cheap but pretty leads (Martin Henderson, Monet Mazur), diner and gas station locations that look like they've been preserved in amber since the 1950s, and plenty of engine porn.

30
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
For a movie that's supposed to be about speed and movement, Torque is a peculiarly slow kind of torture. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition -- especially not in an action movie.

30
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
The loudest, trashiest, stupidest, cheesiest celebration of ritualized male aggression of 2004.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
It's only January, but already we have a strong candidate for the most thunderingly stupid movie of the year.

20
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
Torque has a sense of humor about itself, but the laughs stick in the throat.

20
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The final irony is that it's tailored for a PG-13 audience: The violence is bloodless, the sex is all come-on and the surreally reckless stunts cater to viewers too young to drive.


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