Lack of good storyline.

Great Film overall

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

There is definitely an excellent idea hidden in the background of the film. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find it.

Well I didn't hate this which I expected to after reading multiple scathing reviews. I didn't watch it for the racing aspect though so I didn't have any problems with the "physics" of the driving as others seemed to, that was just noise to me. I viewed this strictly on an entertainment level where it worked just fine, even if the love-triangle/romance aspect did wear a bit thin.The actual race scenes have been filmed in a way that reminded me of 'Any Given Sunday', sort of ADD, flipping back and worth between shots of feet changing gears on pedals, hands on steering wheel, speedometer, giant drops of rain blurring vision, crowd shots, hot babes, the pit crew, the boss crew. Its colourful, frenetic, filled with obligatory crashes and pure entertainment.SS wrote the screenplay and takes a supporting role here as Joe Tanto a washed up former driver who is called back by race team owner Burt Reynolds to coach his current boy wonder Jimmy Bly (Kip Pardue) to the world championship.Bly is slipping in the rankings, cracking under pressure from his ambitious promoter brother and it doesn't help that he's also pursuing an affair with Sophia, the girlfriend of his nemesis, top racer Beau Brandenburg.The story for the most part focuses on relationships in the backdrop of Indy car racing. I found the characters all to be multifaceted and we witness them dealing with their individual struggles. Sly plays a sad-sack sort of guy who everyone picks on and I was very impressed with Gina Gershon as his ex-wife, beautiful but what a b!tch. Burt Reynolds face -wow his plastic surgeon was heavy handed with the scalpel, it's pulled so tight it looks freaky. He does a good job with his character though. 1/26/16

You can tell this film was originally meant for F1; they want the exotic locations (Japan, Germany, etc), glitz and glamour, while keeping the down to earth appeal of American open top racing. It could have been a decent racing film if it had been more about the whole races, and less about just the main characters. Instead, it feels more like a real life version of Pixars Cars. There are plenty of crashes through out the film, but - apart for the main characters - they just seem to be excuses for pretty CGI; there seems to be no reactions from the cast or crowd when it happens. One car spins and another goes air borne over it, is just a throwaway piece. Cars smash and disintegrate without much impact on the race. For a film about the camaraderie of racers, it seems lacking in drivers; it's more a back drop for the boxing style machismo of the named actors. It's Sylvester Stallones film; he's the old racer, come back to mentor the young upstarts. They do dumb, hot head things and he tries to rein them in. I'm so glad they made Rush.

welcome to the world of racing,, Slyvester Stallone tackles a role that's not really familiar to him,, race car driver. Gina Gershon, was very good in the movie,, not to mention easy on the eyes,, so was Estella Warren for that matter,, the racing scenes.. jargon between the drivers,, the tension, and the crash scenes were awesome,, to me what stole the show was the gracefully again Burt Reynolds,, he plays race car owner Carl Henry,, he brings in the veteran retired driver to help coach his rookie. sparks fly in the beginning, as you have drama between the two men, first about racing cars,, then about the women themselves,, overall a pretty good racing movie,, with a lot of great stunts and thrills.

I think they should have Formula One Indy Racing legends such as Danny Sulivan and Al Unser Jr. Unfortunately they did not use either one of them or any other Formula One Indy legends for this movie. Sylvester Stallone should not be in this movie anyhow. Any Formula One Indy legend is the correct replacement for Sylvester Stallone. Estelle Warren maybe a beautiful woman for the movie, but she is not a good actress. It should be Kirsten Dunst or Tara Reid should be in the movie. Or what about Shannen Doherty would be terrific to replace Estelle Warren. Why not try recasting with someone different? It would be terrific if they rethink about casting people.