Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

jonsefcik Half the reviews are like "this is a great movie" and I can't help but wonder why so many people think this is good. I'll admit, considering that it probably had a budget of a penny and a piece of string, the production value is okay, and the screenwriter clearly knows his car jargon. The story is where things fall apart for me. Its like the first 5 minutes of Tokyo Drift (but even stupider) stretched out to 90 minutes. Who would want to watch that? A lot of the characters are unlikable and don't act logically. Why would Danny risk ruining his image with a sponsored racing company and his professional future by intentionally bringing their car to an illegal street race knowing there's a risk of wrecking it? I guess the movie wouldn't have a plot if he didn't. Jake is an egotistical jerk with an asshole father. Why would Danny's father let him compete in the drag race if he was caught street racing and he said earlier that he wouldn't sign him up for the race if he was caught street racing?There are some technical flaws, too. In one scene a 2011 car is shown about to crash, but the car in the actual crash is a 2004-06 car of the same model (and its pretty obvious, too). I guess they couldn't afford a newer one or even a bodykit for the crash car. There's also a shot of Danny's Subaru at a stop sign with his turn signal on and you hear the clicking of the turn signal even though we're outside of the car. Why would they put that in?There are other Fast & Furious ripoffs out there like Redline (which is also terrible) but those movies are at least fun popcorn entertainment with characters you can route for. I'm giving Born To Race such a low rating because it plays up this dumb high school drama with characters I want to punch in the face (played by actors who all look like they're 25) and tries to make it more serious than it is.

earthrocker31510 This film really drives home how good low budget films can be. Watching this movie, and then looking at the garbage that the ScyFy channel makes, it's really a no-brainer. For starters, the story, while not very original works very well, and even the borderline cliché characters are pretty likable and even realistic. You find yourself understand how the characters feel, rather than them having a larger than life element. The dialogues does fall on its face a few times, but no film is perfect. There's plenty of action, which is clearly where most of this film's budget went. Plenty of car crashes, maybe an explosion or two. The real thing that drives this movie home is the cars - rather you're an import or tuner guy, or even if you like old school muscle, there's plenty of eye candy in this film. The racing itself is also pretty realistic, unlike The Fast and the Furious (TFATF) films which often feature shifting through 17 gears in a 5 speed car during a drag race. There's real car talk, that real car guys will get. Go into this movie open minded and you'll enjoy it. It tries to steal some of TFATF franchise's lightning in a bottle, but it does well standing on its own. I didn't have very high expectations, but even if I did, this film wouldn't have disappointed me. A great film for guys who like cars. I wouldn't mind watching it again.

tony-clifton .. and that's not a bad thing. Most car movies out there are entertainment-only movies for the general audience, so they are full of hammy dialog, hammy acting, hammy directing and inaccuracies about cars.This is fairly accurate about cars (not perfect, but not outrageous either), has some hammy dialog but the acting and directing are quite competent compared with the Fast and the Furious.I highly recommend this film for lovers of cars and drag racing in particular. It's also good to see street racers take it to the track like they should; although there are scenes of irresponsible driving, those scenes don't go well for the main character and the movie leads the audience morally in the right direction: to the track.

drax-844-424482 Personally, I like really much racing movies, but for some reason it is very hard for me to find good racing movie and I can name them: F&F, F&F2, F&F:Tokyo Drift, Initial D Drift Racer, and now I can count this one too. Rest of them either are not so into racing (like more focusing on shooting etc.) or they aren't done well (like Red Line - don't misunderstand me, it is fairly good movie, but still I feel that is missing racing spirit).This movies reminds me to Fast & Furious (1st part only) where you have all the racing going with good story background. Latest F&F serials are not so much about racing, instead they do some shooting and similar action.Even that story is somewhat predictable, it was still interesting for me to watch it.Overall, I would say that everything is very good done (story, acting..., but I don't want to reveal parts, I'm leaving that to you :) ).I totally enjoyed watching it, and yeah, it is more than I expected - 10 stars from me :)