Very Cool!!!

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

This movie had promise - good looking men and women in tight leather outfits, fast bikes, lots of action, a fair amount of violence, a decent soundtrack, and actually a potential plot line. And it starts out OK.But then about half way through the movie it seems as if another director took over (or maybe Joseph Kahn started smoking something funny). It appears to me that Kahn should have stuck to music videos and probably thought that the silly quick shots from MTV would carry over to a full length movie.In the second half of the movie the action sequences start taking on a completely unrealistic aspect to them that wasn't present in the first half. In one example the FBI agents are driving a large SUV at over 100 MPH when they hit a construction site causing the SUV to fly through the air as it flips over. The next shot shows the SUV falling straight down as if it lost all of its forward momentum. IT falls onto another car, crushing both. and yet the FBI agents are completely unharmed.Also, in the ending action scenes there are numerous shots that belong in The Matrix or another fantasy action movie, not this movie.I am all for slightly exaggerated action sequences and bike riding, but the outlandish shots found in the second half of the movie are totally out of line with the "realistic" story line in the first half of the movie.On top of that, the dialog is completely cheesy, also getting worse in the second half of the movie.So maybe another director started the movie and Kahn finished it. I can think of no other reason for such a discrepancy, other than the notion that Kahn is completely out of his depth when attempting a full length movie. Taking a video directing mentality to the full screen rarely works, and this is a good example of that.

A movie about motorcycles. Modern motorcycles. I like motorcycles a lot (actually I own two), but my first though was "well, this is going to be bad" - and I thought that because I felt that it would bring some urban myths and folklore about what's the world around motorcycles. And yes it did. Violence, drugs, illegal activities, street racing, every single bad myth about motorcycles is there, along with bad acting, very bad acting! The plot is terrible, predictable, impossible things happen all the time (the way they hide when being pursued in the desert is truly astonishing!), the way they drive in top of a train made me laugh really loud, well in fact most of the time they were driving I was laughing!! By the end of the movie (well, I guess I forgot immediately how it ended), I just felt a relief because my jaw was hurting. I give it 2 points because there are beautiful motorcycles and some hot girls there, and because there is a movie called "Supidomassuta" that is even worse than this one!

Torque starts as hardcore lifestyle biker Cary Ford (Martin Henderson) arrives back in Los Angeles after six months way in Thailand, Cary heads straight for his ex-girlfriend Shane (Monet Mazur) & tries to explain why he hasn't been around for half a year. Hoping to rekindle their relationship Cary starts to win Shane over, however old rivalries are renewed when drug dealing biker Henry James (Matt Schulze) finds out Cary's back in town, six months ago Cary discovered over a million dollars worth of crystal meth stashed in bikes stored at Shane's garage & hid them before taking off to take the heat of Shane & stop the deadly drug reaching the street but Henry wants his meth back & murders Junior Wallace (Fredro Starr) & frames Cary for it, now wanted by the FBI for murder & by Junior's brother Trey (Ice Cube) who happens to rule the Reapers the most feared biker gang in Los Angeles both Cary & Shane go on the run in an attempt to clear their names...This Australian US co-production was directed by Joseph Kahn & Torque is about as big & dumb as they come but at the same time is strangely watchable in a brainless sort of way, there's lots of adrenalin fuelled masculine based action featuring high powered motorbikes & lots of good looking people. The plot isn't that great, even though it only lasts for 80 odd minutes & has a terrific pace Torque is just a really dumb & silly film that will have most shaking their heads in disbelief at times. From riding motorbikes on the tops of speeding trains to turbulence from speeding bikes making the ground tremble to a last ten minutes that I simply cannot explain, as if Torque wasn't video game enough then the last ten minutes looks & feels just like one. The script seems to take itself quite seriously with little in the way of (intentional) humour apart from a yuppie couple in a yellow sports car, there are numerous heated confrontations between various character's that are meant to be tense but come across as silly posturing, the fight between Shane & China on motorbikes at the end in particular. Nothing in Torque has any rational reason, I mean what if Cary is caught by the FBI? Henry wouldn't get his meth back then would he? With Cary in the clear then surely Henry himself would have become a suspect? Couldn't Henry come up with a better plan for finding out where his drugs were than framing Cary for murder? Does that even make any sense to anyone? Why did Henry need Trey's permission to sell his drugs? Why not sell them elsewhere? Why try to set the deal up when Henry didn't even have the drugs anyway? There are plenty of questions, the one main plot twist at the end is so abrupt & seemingly thrown in there for no reason that you wonder why they bothered. Jaime Pressly steals the entire film as evil female biker who looks really sexy & slutty in tight leather.It comes as no surprise that first time feature film director Joseph Kahn background lies in music videos & Torque is a typical soulless substance over style where every shot tries to be cool, every action gets an extravagant 'swoosh' sound effect. Torque looks pretty slick & there are plenty of visually cool moments, great looking motorbikes & cars, an attractive cast & some decent action scenes including a ludicrous train roof scene, a freeway chase, lots of jumps, skids, inhuman speeds, fights, & even a few explosions as well. Everything about Torque is designed to get as many people chasing Cary & Shane as possible & nothing else matters. There are some CGI computer effects which looks alright, there is also some seriously obvious & frankly shameless product placement. Producer Neal H. Moritz previously produced The Fast and the Furious (2001) & xXx (2002) which says exactly what sort of loud, over produced under scripted film Torque is.With a supposed budget of about $40,000,000 this didn't do much business at the box-office, the whole film is glossy & slick & narrative plot is sacrificed at every opportunity over a flashy piece of CGI, a cool looking motorbike or some sort of macho confrontation. The cast doesn't really feature any A-listers & I certainly don't count Ice Cube as an A-lister, as I already said Jaime Pressly is totally hot as the bad leather clad biker chick.Torque is a bad film, a really bad film, it's a video game that goes for flashy graphics & cool moments rather than anything resembling a plot, I did quite like it for it's mindless action & colourful visuals (& Jaime Pressly in leather, OK I won't mention her again...). Loud music, garish visuals, a ridiculous plot & lots of fast motorbikes is about what you get here.

Wow! This is retinal feast! A bit hammering perhaps, with somewhat awkward rhythm here and there hey, what am I talking about here? It is as if Hitchcock has exploded, with a hand from Rosenquist and other pop artists.Stunning visuals (the frame with the cow on the left, palms on the right, descending and framing in some hilariously cross bikers ready to kick butt - and then the chase in the palms, is dreamlike and intoxicating fun all at once!), no-nonsense quickness, astonishing palette, bravura rhythms in just one shot, amazing stunts, tongue-in-cheek visual gags that augment the joy, all this interlocking in masterful scenes - what can one want more? Pop Art lives and kicks ass! Kudos to Torque.If you want to skip this, or condemn it, for the sake of more seriously serious film-making, don't say you were not warned!