Torque Movie
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TAGLINES PLOT SUMMARY
Biker Cary Ford is framed by an old rival and biker gang leader for the murder of another gang member who happens to be the brother of Trey (Ice Cube), leader of the most feared biker gang in the country. Ford is now on the run trying to clear his name from the murder with Trey and his gang looking for his blood.
| Martin Henderson | Ford |
| Ice Cube | Trey |
| John Doe | Sheriff Barnes |
| Max Beesley | Luther |
| Dane Cook | Neil Luff |
| Gichi Gamba | Nomo |
| Lance Gilbert | 18 Wheeler Driver |
| John Ashker | Yellow Car Driver |
| Jay Hernandez | Dalton |
| Faizon Love | Sonny |
| Justina Machado | Henderson |
| Monet Mazur | Shane |
| Hayden McFarland | Ko |
| Christina Milian | Nina |
| Will Yun Lee | Val |
| Joseph Kahn |
3.20 out of 10 (7295 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Bravo Torque
posted on 26 Jul 2009I saw the movie for the first time last night and I get it. I have been riding motor cycles my whole life, and have been in the arts as well. This movie is awesome I loved it. Some of the best photography I have ever seen done with street bikes. It was like being in a 90 minute ride at an amusement park. I was going in to it with some high expectations and was not disappointed. For a fist time director and a cast of no real big stars its a bold move that to me seem to have paid off. If hot girls, fun action, and big stunts is not your seen. Then don't rip it. Go back to the coffee house and finish that book. Its all good.
More absurd than a virgin Britney Spears
posted on 16 Jul 2009To say Torque is retarded would be unfair; to retarded people. I would not want to compare Torque to any group of people regardless of mental or physical state. The unfortunate souls who paid to see this movie should be pitied, and professional help sought. This movie is that bad. Here's why...1) The movie is only 80 minutes long. For a 'mainstream' mass distribution movie that is short. The viewer should be thankful though because the suffering won't be that long. Also, the story itself couldn't take much more stretching.2) The story is cliché, and not even in a fun way. It is mind numbingly straight forward. The only twist in the movie isn't surprising, and the plot is about as thick as the vacuum of space.3) The acting and dialogue. Oh, it's very hard not to be sarcastic. The only thing worse than the acting is the dialogue being delivered by said acting. It is very clear that the writer was inspired by a high school hall fight. The delicate prose fluttering off the tongues of cast is so artificial and ridiculous it would make real gangsters vomit.Torque makes many attempts poking fun at the Fast and the Furious, failing spectacularly at all of them. It's hard for Torque to make fun when it sucks so much worse than Fast & Furious.4) The effects and editing are poor, to say the least. During the big fight scene in the garage I thought my cable was skipping from the abrupt and choppy camera changes. It turns out the editor is also an idiot.5) Abuse of product placement. This is the most grievous of Torque's crimes. I was compelled NOT to buy Pepsi products after watching this movie. It's hard to take the fight between the two main female characters when every other shift in the scene places one of them in front of an enormous Mountain Dew or Pepsi billboard (that is clean and pristine looking despite being under a bridge at a farmers market).Not withstanding all the things already said on why the movie is bad is also the vast amount of technical errors violating physical and natural law. I leave this to experience yourself should you choose to see this movie (which I hope you won't). If you do watch it at least you can get a laugh from the sheer absurdity of it all.2/10
Fast bikes, hard rock and Jaime Pressly in leather
posted on 28 Jun 2009*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*I saw "Torque" in a near deserted movie theater. It was me in the second row and two 13 or 14 year old guys in the back row. We were the target audience. "Torque" hit a bullseye for us. So if you're not a teenage boy or a B-movie lunatic, avoid "Torque". If you fit into the profile audience for an insane biker flick, see this movie immediately."Torque" is hilarious. I was cheering through the whole thing. It wasn't just the stunts that had me going. It was the dialogue as well. When the main biker tries to make up with his girlfriend who he ditched he says, "I wrote letters." She says, "I made fires." I just had a laughing fit writing that.Ice Cube shows up as the angriest biker in the world. He has a permanent scowl on his face. Just looking at him had me laughing. All the macho elements of a biker flick are on proud display. The hard rock was cranked up as the bikers did battle. There was Kid Rock and Static-X. It was a hard rock party. I had a good time.Speaking of Static-X, the last scene with super hot Jaime Pressly has "Push it" blasting away as she does battle with the main blonde biker. Ah Jaime. What a special effect you are. Good Lord, she can squeeze into a pair of leather pants. Gotta love it.
So unbelievably bad it's good
posted on 12 Jun 2009Don't get me wrong. Using the words "good" and "torque" together don't seem natural, but if your reading this because your not sure if you want to rent this and watch it categorize yourself into either group:GROUP A: You saw the preview and it sort of looked okay....OR.......GROUP B: You saw the preview and you thought it looked like complete horsesh!t, and you were shaking your head and scoffing the entire time the preview was playing.If you fall into group A, stop reading this immediately and just go watch it, because this movie was made for people like you. Or if you fall into group b, read this then go watch it and i'll tell you why. As bad as you may think this movie looked, YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW BAD THIS MOVIE IS!!!!! I can't even comprehend how bad this movie is. I felt like i dropped on the evolutionary chain and i had become a Neanderthal after i got done watching this. if you like movies like lost in translation (which i do) and very high brow movies, this is like watching great SNL or something that makes you laugh hysterically every second. Product placement in this movie is everywhere. I was waiting for characters to start discussing why certain brand of motorcycle parts were the best and where you could purchase them, if any respectable motorcycle outfit would have anything to do with this movie is beyond me. if i was into motorcycles at all, i would be so offended. and some of you may not know this, but the director of this movie is the one responsible for one of the worst cultural phenomenons (i can't spell tonight, sorry) and that is the THONG SONG video. I can't remember his name but if he ever reads this... PLEASE STOP. THe worst thing is this movie takes itself so seriously. Oh yeah, and when they marketed this movie, they tried to throw in fast and furious so much, and literally every comic relief part was a crack at the fast and furious. i'm tired so i'll end with this: remember, if you had no interest in this movie watch it anyways because it is so unbelievably bad it's good. i bought a copy of this movie so 10 or 20 years from now, when this movie is long, long forgotten, i can hang out with my friends and we'll start talking about really bad movies and they'll give their examples but i'll just shake my head and say "guys.... you have no idea what a bad movie is" and then i put this in. it'll make you laugh so hard, if your eating something, you'll spit it out because your laughing so hard and maybe even choke.
Torque is a facinating romance/comedy
posted on 12 Jun 2009The movie Torque is a facintating romance/commedy. My favorite part of the movie was at the very end and and the main charecter dies (he gets shot multiple times in the wrist, shin, and shoulder). My least favorite part was when his girlfriend ran away from home and started eating the soil in her garden patch. Over-all, I think that this movie is a big hit and I think that you should see it immediately!
By far the worst movie I've ever seen!
posted on 23 May 2009Never did a post before but this movie is so bad I have to make a post to warn those about this movie. I was with a few friends of mine and we were originally going to see "The Butterfly Effect" but by the time we got there there were no showings for a few hours so we thought we would just go see "Torque" instead as the previews of it looked OK. God was that a waste of our $7.00! We couldn't stand how awful this movie was that we came extremely close to walking out. First of all the plot is so weak that you could drive about 5 Mack trucks through the holes it has. The acting is quite sub-par. The movie as a whole plain sucks. Don't waste your money on it!!!!
Brilliant
posted on 13 May 2009I went to see this film last night at the cinema with my sister, her boyfriend & my mate, I was a bit uneasy at first about watching it, but am a long time fan of ice cube, so decided to go for it, well first 5 minutes I was hooked this film is a fast action packed thrill ride, i have to say if u are big on motorbikes then u will love it, even if you aren't then u will still love it, like me, I am not that keen on bikes. But this is a lot like fast & furious but on a bike instead of cars, The action is non stop from the go, the acting is all good, two main biker gangs and the main star, I recommend this to anybody who is looking for a tyre burning fast paced race thrill ride
Gr8t Movie!
posted on 25 Apr 2009I reckon this movie was very well done. The stunts were amazing and the cast was incredible. Martin Henderson, Jay Hernandez, Will Yun Lee and Ice Cube did a great job, their acting skills are amazing. Monet Mazue needed some help with her acting skills here and there but still a good job she did. The visual effects, special effects and the cinematography were amazing. The whole cast and crew were amazing making this film. If you enjoyed The Fast and the Furious and Speed you will defiantly like this. If your not even a fan of Motor Bikes i still advise you to see it. Young and old will enjoy this movie. So go to the video shop and rent this movie NOW!!
close to a new cinematic low
posted on 17 Apr 2009`Torque' is a film about motorcyclists and biker gangs that is so inane and mind-numbingly idiotic it makes `The Fast and the Furious' look like an Ingmar Bergman chamber drama in comparison. Although there is a nominal plot buried somewhere in the movie (the details need not be reiterated here), the story serves mainly as a device on which to hang an endless series of motorcycle chase sequences which derive their style more from CGI and video games than from anything remotely resembling the real world - you, know, the one that operates by the laws of gravity and physics. The dialogue is uniformly ridiculous, and one can almost hear director Joseph Kahn giving his actors last minute instructions before setting his cameras a-rolling: `OK, everybody, now strut around, look tough and scowl a lot.'
Most of the performers here appear to have been only too willing to oblige.
The only truly amusing aspect of the film is an entirely unintentional one, I'm sure, which is that the main villain of the piece is named Henry James.
Imagining what that most literate of authors would think of this most illiterate of movies is an exercise in irony almost too rich to pass up.Motorcycle fanatics may get their kicks out of this film. I can't imagine it appealing to anyone else.
Really? REALLY?
posted on 05 Apr 2009Warning! Spoilers ahead! They ride their sport-bikes through the desert, or at least that what the producers (and *very* unsuccessfully, I might add) want you to think they did. Which tells me that the producers think the audience are a bunch of idiots.There are two skinny girls *fighting* with their bikes, making the impression that the bikes weigh about 10 pounds each. Words escape me.Bikes on a train? Wheelies between the seats? Really?High speed driving without helmets? Again, really? You know that fly that hit your eye in 130 mph? And burst your eyeball? Good luck with all that.As for the ending, with a jet-bike in city traffic, there are no words for how moronic that was.To top it off: Fat-boy Ice-cube on a bike? Really? REALLY? I don't think so. At best he could drive a 15hp chopper around town in about 20 mph so all his "bling-bling" won't fall off. Be careful to not get that too-long basketball-shirt, or the shoelaces from your untied shoes, stuck in the chain. It wouldn't be pretty. And the rest of his "cool-boy rapper-biker-gang" was just as believable as that 300mph-through-city-traffic-wearing-no-helmet ending. This is just another example of what's wrong with todays "movies". Who cares about realism and a plot, as long as it's "cool" and "awesome", and the actors curses a lot and makes degrading comments about women, and wears a lot of "bling-bling". It's not even bad, it's not even laughable, but it sure brings on a whole new level of stupid. What a waste of money, time and resources.
Crappiest movie eve.... well not ever.
posted on 28 Mar 2009Where to start? The weird insane stunts that have no basis whatsoever in reality? The bike that knocks the clothes off women for being so fast? The tough-cookie women that don't flinch at killing off a score of people but can't bear to let anyone see their flapjacks? Or the racist black guys that dismiss dead white people as part of the fun? This movie was a crapfest from start 'til finish with a bad plot used as a thinly veiled excuse to unleash crazy motorbike stunts that are gtaIV in quality. I'm not even going into the dialogue, because that just annoys me, it isn't even "so bad that it's good" it's gone beyond that all the way back to bad again. Avoid or watch while intoxicated on some illicit substances, although I doubt that will fully cushion you from the god awfulness of this movie. I actually threw up afterwards to purge my system, but I couldn't purge my brain. What has been seen, cannot be unseen. And please dear God, can someone stop Ice Tea from acting in movies, ever again, thanks.
Do not watch if under 14
posted on 10 Mar 2009During my cinema time I have seen maybe four people walk out and not come back but while watching ‘Torque' I saw at least twelve. It's the kind of movie I would have liked when I was thirteen and then I liked ‘Commando'. Have the makers of ‘the fast and the furious' and ‘Torque' actually traveled at 150mph? Because they make appear like almost double, maybe they mixed up miles with kilometers. The unrealistic nature doesn't stop there half the stuff they did on a bike would leave you with your head in the road but it's not as unrealistic as the acting and corny dialogue. `Hey you know what? I really like those intros you get on racing video games, could we stretch one out into a movie? I Doubt it but lets make it anyway' 3/10
Seriously, was this a joke?
posted on 02 Mar 2009I cannot believe how bad this film was. But wait, did I just call this a film? It was really a mix between a bad beer commercial and an MTV video for a '80s hair band. It was so funny to see the cool bike riders ride into town, while these models are dancing in slow motion to no apparent music. Then you have the "acting"? Let me tell you something, when Ice Cube is the best actor you got out there, well sir, your movie is in trouble. Look, if you want to see one of those "You Got Served" types of movies, this is it. You will watch it, start to laugh a little at how bad it is, then get repulsed at just how terrible a film can be. Yikes!
Horrible, horrible, horrible movie
posted on 02 Mar 2009The movie gets one star purely out of default. Whoever finds this movie good probably still wears G.I. Joe pajamas and gets up early on Saturday morning with a heaping bowl of Fruit Loops. This movie is not only insulting to sports bike aficionados, it is offensive on every aspect of every measure of the human spectrum. It is pure trash and I wish I had never wasted those precious moments of my life that I spent trying to figure out what was going on. All the action scenes are ludicrous; the fight scenes play out like an episode of "Dragonball-Z" on bikes; and the acting is pure rubbish. The idiocy of this movie gives us such "classic" scenes as the good-girl/bad-girl bike battle near the end, where the aim it seems is to "out-bitch" the other. Then there is that moronic chase scene on the super-fast bikes that takes us through traffic-infested Downtown L.A. at about 300 mph. COME'ON! WHAT THE @#$% IS THAT? Arrrrgh!
cash to burn
posted on 12 Feb 2009Ooooooh, good that my cousin brought me the DVD and that I didn't have to pay for this nonsense.The actors and their acting is like from a very bad daily soap. The conversations are, lame, boring, dry and very predictable. It's like some wanna-be "bad dude" tries to impress a girl.The biker scenes are very lame and overdone. The part when they drive off-road with those Honda's, Suzuki's etc, is very unrealistic, very very. Those bikes are like 200kg and are meant for the streets and not for off road. Those are not Cross bikes you can jump in the air 2m high. The movie looks like Warner Bros' spent a lot of money, but why could't they afford some real stunt guys who would drive those bikes with 240km/h ? ? ? The scene where the two chicks have their showdown . . . is very ridiculous. In one scene you see both girls sitting on their bikes, looking at each other ( under the bridge ) and their like about 150m away ( from each other ), but then they drive in one direction like this place would be about 500m long. And the bike handling . . . How much does Jaime Pressly weight ? ? ? 45kg ? ? ? And she's plays with this 200kg bike like it would be a piece of cake. . . Such scenes are very out of this world. The good guy bad guy showdown . . . a normal bike driving 300km/h and this bike with those jet engines also . . . downtown LA . . . in rush hour . . . of course this is possible only if you use very unrealistic CGI effects.The FBI dudes . . . she is like some kinda weird and he is some baby-face with sneakers on who thinks he can be an FBI guy just because he watched to much x-Files. Of course, to impress all local authorities they need a Hummer.I have to say that I watched this movie, twice. I needed a second time to be sure that I really saw, . . . . what I saw. I don't' know why some people at Warner Bross decided to spend money on such crap. Looks like they earned too much money with the Matrix serial so they thought "Hey let's burn some cash".If you are one of those young people who wants to create movies one day and wanna be sure that you don't do any mistakes, then this movie is a must. Watch it and learn from the mistakes. Keep this movie in your mind if you want to do a movie about bikes or cars. If the rating system would be educational, then this movie would get an 8, but otherwise, it get's a good 2, because of the good picture ( not the FX ) and sound quality.
See this movie for the action, and the beautiful Monet Mazur.
posted on 10 Feb 2009This movie has tones of high octane thrills it almost makes you forget about a storyline. Because the story seems to drag itself around. For its action moments that seems to come in every 5-10 minutes of the movie. If not for the action this movie would be dull. Martin Henderson seems to do allright, and so does Ice Cube. But it's Monet Mazur, who seems to have a great blend of beauty and toughness in her role. I think she can have a great career ahead of her. The action was awesome, but acting was dull. But then again I thought Fast and The Furious was no better. It does'nt try to be anything truly terrific, it just tries to be a movie you can enjoy with your friends.
stupidly entertaining
posted on 02 Feb 2009From the trailers that I've seen, I knew this movie was going to be silly, and it is. I'm not a fan of sports cars or motorcycles but this is very amusing to watch. I felt that by watching this (and listening to the music) we were attempting to keep in touch with the MTV youth of today. The story is about a group of motorcycle friends, bunch of black guys from the hood that hang out in the desert, and another motorcycle gang.Plenty of funny and stupid lines, some sexy girls, violence and hollywood effects. Towards the end of the movie the effects get stupider and unrealistic, but that just adds to the entertainment.Product placement is very obvious in this one, its hard to miss my fave soft drink mountain dew. And that FBI agent character is just wrong.3 out of 5 stars.
WOW what a film
posted on 02 Feb 2009There is not many times when you can just say after a film "this is the greatest movie ever made" But Torque was an exception. This could possibly be the greatest film ever created on the face of the earth. As soon as the film began with the opening shot of the bike i felt the adrenalin that the real bikers felt. I have never experienced this before but it felt good. Anyway, from a cinematic point of view the shots were spectacular. I could not believe this was the director Joseph Kahns first movie because it was just flat out remarkable and was definitely evolution in film because if this does not win best picture of if Joseph Kahn is not nominated for best director the people who vote for the movies are retarded. Other than that i have never seen special effects quite like these. From start to finish the effects are breathtaking. So if you want to watch the greatest film ever made go see Torque because its scrumtrilescent. 10/10
Lawrence of What?
posted on 02 Feb 2009I find it very difficult to believe that this film is getting horrible reviews, yet similar films like Lawrence of Arabia and Schindler's List get placed on the top 25.Ice Cube gives one of the most amazing performances I have seen in movies ever. Granted, the logic in this movie doesn't make much sense, but Schindler's List also has horrible logic. I mean, come on! Who actually believes the Holocaust happened?I gave this film a 10 out of 10. I gave Lawrence of Arabia a 1, and I actually attempted to burn all copies of Schindler's List because it is a film based on nothing but lies and crappy special effects. Torque is the motion picture of the milennium. See it now, while you still can!
Worst driving movie EVER
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