Amazon.com essential video: With Days of Thunder, director Tony Scott tried to do for the Indy 500 what he did for the U.S. Air Force with Top Gun. But without Top Gun's go-go soundtrack and visual feats, Scott merely ends up with a Tom Cruise vehicle that's out of gas.
Cruise plays (what else?) a cocky, upstart stock-car racer who faces down ruthless racing opponents. Nicole Kidman, Robert Duvall, Cary Elwes, and Randy Quaid do the laps around this movie's tiresome track with Cruise, while director Scott attempts to propel the action along with his trademark visceral, gritty but glamorous visual style.
Days of Thunder is notable, however, as a turning point in Cruise's then one-dimensional career. After this film--having tired even his most devoted fans by playing a bartender, an air force pilot, and a stock-car driver--Cruise was forced to take on real character parts. --Ethan Brown
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Rating: - Lossless audio in blu-ray makes this more enjoyable
The movie itself is good if you are interested in racing and the personalities of the people involved. The blu-ray video has good clarity. There are white sparkles throughout showing the age of the movie. ... Read More
Rating: - A movie filled with nothing but left turns
I've lived in the south since I was 9 years old and noticed immediately upon moving here that the locals have a fanatical love of NASCAR. I never really did connect with the sport though. But this is the south, ... Read More
Rating: - grrrrr... only english version
i live in colombia, i like very much this movie, but it doesn't have spanish subtitles. :(
Rating: - TOP GUN + Days of Thunder should be part of all movie collections!
This movie and Top Gun (Widescreen Special Collector's Edition) should be a part of all moviegoers' collection. Not only are they the pinnacle works of Tom Cruise, they incorporate a timeless theme -- speed.
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Rating: - great movie
thank you for very fast delivery, movie playes great, will buy from again
- Lossless audio in blu-ray makes this more enjoyable
- A movie filled with nothing but left turns
- grrrrr... only english version