Tom Cruise is Cole Trickle(?) a hotshot Yankee trying to win it all on the redneck NASCAR racing circuit in this very obvious attempt to dip into the well of money that Cruise and the same production team made with Top Gun four years earlier.
The future and then later ex Mrs. Tom Cruise plays his girlfriend neurosurgeon who helps him recuperate after a horrible accident. Nicole has a very cute Australian accent and is kind of pretty with her pre plastic surgery looks. Robert Duvall is the old timer crew chief who will teach Tom how do be a better
The ridiculous bull crap in this film has to be seen to be believed, the constant macho posturing, the obvious references to Top Gun, the height challenged Cruise attempting to look like he's at least 5'7", and the unending look a like racing sequences that blend together into one long boring spin around and around and around the different NASCAR race tracks that all look the same after a while.
My personal favorite piece of stupidity is the sex scene where Cruise pretends to drive little racing cars up and down Kidman's legs, while she tells him "you're not going to do anything weird are you?"
There seems to be something about these NASCAR movies that do not bring out the best in Hollywood, witness Red Line 7000, that came out 25 years ago. It's essentially the same plot, the cocky young driver, the old veteran in the crew, the girlfriend watching and hoping the driver won't die in a car crash. The cliches have barely changed.
108 minutes.
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