SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

bartaerts82 This is written from a point of view of a racing fan, I won't address the other aspects of the movie.I saw this movie today for the first time and it is just ridiculous.I mean, after the race is over he drives into the pits, requests new tires, goes back on track and then crashes into the race winner on purpose? I'm not really familiar with NASCAR but I'm pretty sure you get a lifelong ban for that.Also, the scene where he explains Nicole Kidman that they're developing 'a little thing called 'drafting''.Early on in the movie we're told that Tom Cruise doesn't know anything about cars but drafting is part of the absolute basics of racing.It would be like watching a movie about soccer and the main character says that 'they're developing 'a little thing called 'scoring a goal''.As a movie I'd probably give it a 6 but the racing part is just ... so ... awful.

Maziun Tony Scott directs this movie with energy . The movie looks good. The song "Show me heaven" by Maria McKee is great . There romance here works better than in "Top gun" , mostly because Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman become a couple during filming and soon married each other. The acting is fairly decent.However I've already have seen this movie back in 1986. It was called "Top gun". I think it's offensive if somebody tries to sell you THE SAME STORY all over again only with minor changes. I like "Top gun" because of it's cheesiness and nostalgia. It's a minor classic that it's enjoyable when not taken seriously.This is not a horrible movie , it has good elements , but I don't really see what was the point of making it other than to grab audience money without putting too much effort. for that I give it 2/10.

tgchan Ratings: 5.9/10 from 56,118 users... and yet, I am still going for it... Why? Because I love cars, and especially American muscle ones~! I normally don't do any reviews of the films I have seen before, but... it might have been easily 15+ years since I have watched this one, I don't remember much from it. Many say, it's like Top Gun (1986) but with cars, and I think this is how I remember it, but is it any good and worth our time? Let's find out. ( Note, that I might be a little biased, since I have started racing ovals myself recently (iRacing). I will still try my best and stay neutral about it. )2 minutes - oh god... it's gonna be tough to stay objective with this one. They show me a track and cars and I already love it lol... Or maybe it's the charm of the 90's with a nice music?7 minutes - it's so god damn cheesy and cliché... but I love it. Actually, it doesn't look so bad at all26 minutes - the music is great and it feels exactly like in Top Gun (1986) ...Oh... maybe it's because he was a director of it too... Forgive my ignorance, I didn't check it before53 minutes - once the film moves away from a track... let's just say, it doesn't get better...1h 18minutes - I like the story, I really doI am not going to lie... I enjoyed it. It is a decent film, and if you like racing, you should like this one as well.tgchan's rating: 6 /10

chucknorrisfacts "Days of Thunder" was a pretty good flick. Not Tom Cruise's best movie, but entertaining nonetheless.Maybe this makes me sound like a stereotypical guy, but I thought the racing scenes were exciting so much so to the point where when the story "shifts" (pun intended) to accommodate the entrance of a love story subplot I found it slowed the movie down a bit much, but not enough to completely take away from the enjoyment of the movie.I'd recommend checking it out, but know that you'll probably like it more if you're into cars yourself, otherwise you might not quite "connect" with it.