Sunday, 10 June 2012

Days of blunder


Days of Thunder (1990)

Directed by Tony Scott this Jerry Bruckheimer production stars Tom Cruise, Robert Duvall and Nicole Kidman. A maverick young race car driver gets his shot at NASCAR but has to file down his rough edges to become a winner.

Days of Thunder is one of the greatest film titles of all time in my opinion, unfortunately the rest of the film does not really come close to living up to that level. The plot for the film is essentially lifted from Top Gun (1986) with every cliché in the book and when you see Tom Cruise with a story credit during the opening titles that is the most ominous piece of foreshadowing in the whole film. When it comes to the actual racing in the film not much of it actually makes sense despite the film being fairly well made even if there is some suspect dialogue along the way.

2/5

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