Great Film: Torque
Pretty as cotton candy being spun at a fair...
...And just about as nutritious for anyone seeking a coherent
story
or serious characters. But being an aficionado of low-rent
B
movies, I took TORQUE for what it was -- a video game on film
that
had no relationship to the laws of physics. Roger Corman
would
be proud of this puppy.
I loved the look of it. I hate the desert (where it seems 75%
of
this film was shot) but it seemed so lovely, I almost wanted to
visit
the locations. Martin and Monet are beautiful to look at and
almost
pull off their "tougher-than-thou" attitudes. Ice Cube was
dope
(meant in the good way, not the dumb one) and the bad boys
(and
grrrrl) were just too much fun. Joseph Kahn shows promise as
a
director (if someone will please put him on Valium); his
quiet
moments were just as nice as his non-stop action ones.
What's bad? I can't say the script was because it's obvious
there
really wasn't one except in the loosest sense. The editing was
so
in your face, I got lost a few times and still cannot figure out
how
one character died except he went BOOM on his bike in downtown
LA. I was a bit offended at how all the black guys were
portrayed
in a stereotypical "bad-assed-muthaf**kah" way as opposed to
the
cool as cucumber confidence of "the lead three and she" and
the
"we're refugees from MAD MAX" baddies.
Let's put it this way -- cotton candy is probably the worst thing
you
can put in your body in the way of anything edible, but if you got
a
craving for it, nothing else will do. And that's TORQUE, to
the
"max."
Cast
- Shane played by Monet Mazur
- Trey played by Ice Cube
- Nina played by Christina Milian
- Henry James played by Matt Schulze
- Val played by Will Yun Lee
- Dalton played by Jay Hernandez
- FBI Agent McPherson played by Adam Scott
