Redline (2007)

Fantastic!

Brilliant and touching

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Since most of the reviews on here are about how bad it is, i wont add to that. I will however try and correct a mistake i made in the connections tab. The first one says that there is a tie in in the flashback scene, to the movie days of thunder. This is incorrect in that the car Cole Trickle drove in days of thunder was the red (almost pink) and white #46 superflo Chevy, not a blue and white #66 superflo Chevy. I have models and die casts of every car from that movie, as well as several dozen match boxes. Cole Trickle only drove the #46 superflo car, and the #46 city Chevy cars in that film. And i thought Days of Thunder was a much better movie than this one.

Private racing is an expensive hobby for millionaires with money to burn. Amongst them rapper Infamous (Eddie Griffin), illegal arms dealer Michael (Angus Macfadyen) and Hollywood producer Jerry Brecken (Tim Matheson). Given the suitcases of money involved they need the best drivers to indulge into their pass-time. Amongst them is playboy Jason (Jesse Johnson), who works for his uncle Michael. His brother and an Iraq war vet Carlo (Nathan Phillips) is vehemently opposed to Jason being involved with such a ruthless criminal, but despite that backs him in his racing endeavours. Meanwhile a fortnight before a big race Infamous loses his best driver, who is busted by cops during an illegal daytime street race (stupido!). Devoid of options he tries to hire the leg-flashing cleavage-loving Natasha (Nadia Bjorlin), an aspiring musician, car workshop owner and at the same time the daughter of former racer extraordinaire. Natasha declines given how her father lost his life on the race track. And so...It is sometimes extremely hard to actually comment a movie of this type. I knew nothing about the movie beforehand, so after the first few scenes, I was expecting a low-budget racing movie with B-class acting and script. It turns out I wasn't exactly wrong, apart from the glaring fact that the money put into this movie was anything but 'low'. "Redline" can be easily described by one word: excess. An excess of everything possible. Leggy barely-dressed bum-shaking (and apparently promiscuous) girls (short skirts, lingerie and ultra short shorts are a must). Flashy expensive cars. Reckless driving and endangerment of life for a whim. Bags of money. Chic clothes. Alcohol. Barrages of music (mostly hip-hop). Testeterone driven fights. As well as cheap one-liners, cardboard characterisations, barely logical script and amateurish acting.If all you need is legs and backsides galore, motors revving and people splashing the cash feel free to indulge. Apart from the decent performances by the trio of richie riches there is nothing real worth to note in this picture. Even more so that the editing behind some of the race scenes make your eyes sore and are hard to follow. Instead of some emotionally driven races we have a lot of cool guys spectacularly crashing cars worth millions of dollars...I can't say how happy I am that the producer of this movie got hit hard by the flop. The amount of money burned on this craptastic flick is embarrassing.

I you have an IQ over 80, don't watch this.I thought the many super-cars, beautiful women engine noise and action would make me tolerate anything, but it sucks big time.Bad actors, no storyline, the time span between shots is ridiculous, about 1,5 seconds, shorter than most music videos.If anything, this just might be worst movie I ever saw, the first 20 or so minutes plus browsing through it.Bad.Rather read a book.Google "worse movie ever" and you'll see a better movie than this.

Now I am a big revhead. I always have been, and I love a good car movie. Especially racing movies but The Fast and the Furious series didn't really satisfy me. I'm not for a moment going to suggest that Redline is better than FnF because it's not. But I personally was never into the whole Import scene. My favourite car of the entire movie was the 69 Charger. What's more a week after that film came out, every teenager with a FWD Honda or Mitsubushi blew their entire bank accounts on trying to make their cars look better and failed, dismally.I enjoyed watching Redline because it reminds me of the Need for Speed video game series. NFS was all about driving the finest driving machines on the planet to the very limit of speed (on the track and off) but the Underground came along with the whole 'Urban exotic' idea and let all of the Supercar fans down.I think this film could've been the film adaption of Need for Speed and been a lot more successful.But since that isn't the case I'll simply conclude with this. This is not a film for serious film buffs. This one is for the revheads (or gearheads or petrol heads or whatever they call them in the country that you're reading this) who just want something to watch of a Saturday night. It's just something you can sit back and switch your brain off to with some explosions, fistfights, no real story and some of the finest cars of today raced (and crashed) then Redline is an alright choice.