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).Read Full Review »
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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.Read Full Review »
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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.Read Full Review »
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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.Read Full Review »
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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.Read Full Review »
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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.Read Full Review »
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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.Read Full Review »
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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.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Ann Hornaday
The loudest, trashiest, stupidest, cheesiest celebration of ritualized male aggression of 2004.Read Full Review »
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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.Read Full Review »
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