- Actors: Martin Henderson, Ice Cube, Monet Mazur, Adam Scott, Matt Schulze
- Directors: Joseph Kahn
- Writers: Matt Johnson
- Producers: Brad Luff, Bruce Berman, Dan Lin, Graham Burke, Greg Tharp
- Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language English, French
- Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.40:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Warner Home Video
- DVD Release Date: 18 May 2004
- Run Time: 84 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B0001MMGUO
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 76,644 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Torque suggests that a lot has changed in the biker-movie genre since Hell's Angels on Wheels--this film may be the new benchmark of feverish chopper action. Martin Henderson plays Cary, a speed king and relatively civilised outlaw with a knack for annoying everyone, including drug smugglers, the FBI, an ex-girlfriend, and, worst of all, biker gang leader Trey (Ice Cube), who thinks Cary killed his brother. On the run from everyone, Cary survives by playing all sides against one another. But the story is less important than the frantic, over-the-top, tongue-in-cheek action surrounding it. The Fast and the Furious producer Neal H Moritz is responsible for this crazy, violent, yet appealingly sardonic cowboys-on-wheels piece. --Tom Keogh
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Most people will take this film seriously and say its crap because it is unreel, flawed, has crap acting and stunts that simply are not possible. While this may be true, it doesn't mean that the film is not an enjoyable one. So if you are one of those serious people, then i would advise you not to watch this, but you if just want to watch something cool with a couple of mates on a satarday night, then this would be a great choice. Recommended if you like slick action or enjoyed the fast and the furious!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I reject the notion that a dumber film will be released in 2004. I just don't think it's possible that one year can hold two films this remarkably stupid. Yes, I know it's early, and yes, I know that the world is not safe so long as Freddie Prinze the second is still receiving scripts, but I doubt something will trump Torque in the department of sheer stupidity. Torque is Gigli on wheels, or if you prefer, Whigli.
Hoping to build off the incredible momentum of Biker Boyz...uh huh...Ice Cube pairs with Martin Henderson (The Ring) to race motorcycles in the hot California sun. How keen it would be if Dom DeLuise and Jamie Farr (and perhaps Roger Moore!) would join them on their quest. Believe it or not, adding some of the more shameful aspects of The Cannonball Run really wouldn't ruin Torque, so why the hell not? At least it would show more imagination than is there now.
Of note is Monet Mazur. She's cute, but that's not why she's noteworthy. In the film, she sports a t-shirt with the world famous Rolling Stones logo. Her dad is the original artist of said logo. Yeah, that's about all you'll learn watching Torque. Oh, and her middle name is Happy, and she's in a band called Nancy Raygun. Even still, that ephemera is of far greater value than the 80 minutes of Torque.
The scary thing is, rather than letting the bikes rev for most of the movie, there is actually a plot, as silly as it is, involving murder, betrayal, and, of course, a motorcycle race against time.
I won't even waste more of your time - or mine, which is really the issue here, belaboring the point. No matter how quick the super motorcycles in Torque are, they couldn't move the flick fast enough for me. What a dreadful way to spend an evening
Hoping to build off the incredible momentum of Biker Boyz...uh huh...Ice Cube pairs with Martin Henderson (The Ring) to race motorcycles in the hot California sun. How keen it would be if Dom DeLuise and Jamie Farr (and perhaps Roger Moore!) would join them on their quest. Believe it or not, adding some of the more shameful aspects of The Cannonball Run really wouldn't ruin Torque, so why the hell not? At least it would show more imagination than is there now.
Of note is Monet Mazur. She's cute, but that's not why she's noteworthy. In the film, she sports a t-shirt with the world famous Rolling Stones logo. Her dad is the original artist of said logo. Yeah, that's about all you'll learn watching Torque. Oh, and her middle name is Happy, and she's in a band called Nancy Raygun. Even still, that ephemera is of far greater value than the 80 minutes of Torque.
The scary thing is, rather than letting the bikes rev for most of the movie, there is actually a plot, as silly as it is, involving murder, betrayal, and, of course, a motorcycle race against time.
I won't even waste more of your time - or mine, which is really the issue here, belaboring the point. No matter how quick the super motorcycles in Torque are, they couldn't move the flick fast enough for me. What a dreadful way to spend an evening
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
As a biker, I found this beyond cringeworthy.
Where do I start? Well, for starters, none of the so-called stunts in this film are possible. You cannot ride a street tyred superbike across rutted desert at 100 mph while talking on a mobile phone through a crash helmet. You can't do a rolling stoppie on a metal roofed train after "jumping" from ground level onto it. You can't hold a conversation with your riding buddy along side you through crash helmets at 100 mph, you can't....oh, what's the use?
You expect a certain amount of "dramatic license" in any Hollywood action film, but if they'd replaced the wheels on the bikes with anti-gravity miracle material and made them fly it wouldn't have been any less credible.
Acting is dire, the characters so shallow and derivative that you find yourself hoping they all get shot, and the plot could have been written by my dog.
Avoid this rubbish at all costs.
Where do I start? Well, for starters, none of the so-called stunts in this film are possible. You cannot ride a street tyred superbike across rutted desert at 100 mph while talking on a mobile phone through a crash helmet. You can't do a rolling stoppie on a metal roofed train after "jumping" from ground level onto it. You can't hold a conversation with your riding buddy along side you through crash helmets at 100 mph, you can't....oh, what's the use?
You expect a certain amount of "dramatic license" in any Hollywood action film, but if they'd replaced the wheels on the bikes with anti-gravity miracle material and made them fly it wouldn't have been any less credible.
Acting is dire, the characters so shallow and derivative that you find yourself hoping they all get shot, and the plot could have been written by my dog.
Avoid this rubbish at all costs.
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rubbish
I cant begin to describe how awful this film is. The story is dreadful and the acting is even worse, I hate quitting on a film so I forced myself to watch all the way through and... Read more
Published on 23 July 2008 by Ms. F. I. Macdonald
Pure fun
The point of this movie is to have fun - most reviewers took this film way too seriously and therefore pick apart it's many plot holes. Read more
Published on 6 Jun 2008 by Michael Gasher
Great Stuff
some reviews slating this are wrong, yeah some stunts are not probably possible in this movie but then your watching a film, star wars never happened, jurrasic park never happened. Read more
Published on 5 Mar 2008 by Nick Potter
hmmmm
The review below? NO. The only biker that would enjoy this film is the sort that has more acne than brain cells, wears a proper cacker tracksuit and baseball cap, can has only ride... Read more
Published on 27 April 2006 by Mr. A. J. Fleming
pretty dismal
Ok the low down is fast and furious on bikes. Its very much based on three gangs which have corrupted one another. Read more
Published on 15 July 2005 by M. riley
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This film did all the right things for a fast and easy to understand movie. The storyline may be weak in places but the action is not. Read more
Published on 27 Jan 2005 by steve rayner
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Awful Awful Awful.
As a biker I find this movie purile and ridiculous in a variety of ways but most of these can be explained by the fact it is yet another testosterone fueled... Read more
As a biker I find this movie purile and ridiculous in a variety of ways but most of these can be explained by the fact it is yet another testosterone fueled... Read more
Published on 4 Jan 2005
I never knew a film could be this bad...
I was expecting the usual, often quoted 'Fast & Furious on bikes'. The problem is, Fast & Furious was a film, this is not. I'm not quite sure what it is, but its not a film. Read more
Published on 8 Nov 2004 by "daddylurve"
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Published on 20 Oct 2004 by "kry25stal"
Could have been great but...
"The fast and the furious on two wheels". Not quite. Torque suffers from a mediocre plot the way 2f2f did - and like that other film tries to compensate with flashy machinery and... Read more
Published on 12 Oct 2004 by Mr. A. G. Nichol
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