Fast Track: No Limits (2008)

You won't be disappointed!

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

The acting and storyline were worse than Starship Troopers... I was hoping to be entertained by this film since I am into tuner cars, all that. I was disappointed by cheap, old, ugly cars. Honestly my Mitsubishi Eclipse would destroy 90% of the cars in this movie. This movie was made in 2008? The clothes people were wearing, even if this is in Germany, reflected the clothing our parents wore in the early 90s that we have tried to forget. Also, the movie had a yellow tint to it for a good portion of the movie, which made it even more cheesy. With the bad camera angles used, I am fully confident that a few friends and myself could make a better movie. Thank goodness it only cost me $1 from red box to rent this; lord knows how it even made it into the red box machine.

My expectation for this movie was a pathetic story used largely as an excuse to show hot girls and expensive custom cars driving fast with lots of bikinis and street-racing / car chasing action, which has been the standard for the popular street-racing films from Hollywood recently. Surprisingly this movie, while still keeping the many stereotypical themes from this genre, had a story that was well thought-out, unpredictable, and became an excellent foundation upon which to build the street-racing and car chasing action I was looking for.Unfortunately there were some unfortunate goofs in the movie and the dialog was very weak at times -- I believe it could have been much better than it was.This movie is also missing some of the big expensive and flashy action scenes from Hollywood street-racing movies. However, looking back on the movie I feel this served to make the movie more real and less imaginary. Writing as someone who views "The Fast and The Furious" as Hollywood's pathetic attempt at making a respectable street-racing movie I was able to watch this movie and, at long last, actually care about how winning or losing street-races impacted the story being told. The ending turned out to be a lot simpler than I would have preferred but it did bring the story full circle to a satisfying conclusion.And I hope the reference to the Initial-D anime (with the cup of water in the car) was intentional, it was a nice touch.

If it were a parody of Fast & furious it would be a really good movie. Tragically the director of this B-movie was serious about it. During the movie we assist to many ... "stunts", some of them are done with cars, others are done with the plot. A friend of 'pizza boy' loses a race and as a result the opponent cuts his hand: 'pizza boy' arrives and incidentally he has got a box of ice with a bottle of champagne in the back of his car. Obviously it's normal for any German pizza boy to drive around the city always with a bottle of chilled champagne. And it's indeed a good idea, because if you happen to meet somebody who just lost a hand, you can always throw away the champagne and put the hand inside ice, while you reach the nearest hospital. And that's exactly what 'pizza boy' does. Another good laugh is courtesy of the scene when some thieves are arrested: a policeman throws a bottle of his pee in the air and shoot it. Caught by surprise, all these bad ass criminals stop and stand still in horror, totally defeated. And they get arrested. I cannot believe that other users commented that the plot is poor, but technically the movie is well done. I'd rather say that the plot well suits the technical level of the movie. Even a casual spectator would notice the amateurish quality of this movie: take for example the scene when pizza boy and girl enter the abandoned hangar at the airport. She opens a regular door! Only a few scenes before, the mechanic from the garage had gladly announced that a brand new pair of vertical doors have been installed in the car because they look such cool. Where are they now?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's an FnF clone. Anyone whose seen that movie just can't help but make a comparison (including myself). I'm pretty sure some of you out there are thinking 'it's just a carbon copy of FnF.' Well, the truth is it's not. it may be in the genre of street racing but it's not a straight up FnF clone. In some ways, it's better than The Fast and the Furious. What is is is a riveting drama that tells the story four separate people who can only be connected by their love for pure, unbridled speed.The plot is driven by the personal pursuits of each individual character; Katie with her home garage on the brink of foreclosure, Mike with his need to prove himself on the street, Eric with his desire for control of his life, and Nicole with her need to spice up her life.Each personal conflict of these characters makes them more real and more relatable than that of the characters in the FnF series who were a bit bland and plastic. And the actors themselves gave quite a good performance as well.The action sequences were not that bad either. The racing sequences were well done but not exaggerated to the point of ridiculous. If only this movie had the same budget given to Hollywood movies then maybe we could've really seen some fireworks.All in all, it's a movie worth watching. Don't expect any award-winning stuff but that's not the point of this movie.