One Fast Move

This movie is made for bikers who love racing and excitement around the track. And then of course it's a romance to try saving the boring never-ending racing.

I'm a biker myself but this was unreal and a stupid plot. Overall, the acting contributes to the failure & it makes it difficult to watch past 20 minutes as the acting/performances are utterly embarrassingly terrible. The end had a decent twist but nothing of note. Very dissatisfied with this movie as I was really looking forward to this.

I think the best part of the movie were the last five minutes and I was so excited when the credits finally scrolled.

Wes Neal (K. J. Apa) is released from prison after six months for street racing. He is desperate to go into professional motorcycle racing and seeks help from his biological father Dean Miller (Eric Dane). Dean doesn't know him, has never took responsibility, and is well past his prime. Wes falls for waitress Camila (Maia Reficco). Abel (Edward James Olmos) is the mechanic and owns a bike shop.

This is a racing B-movie. The racing is fine although it would help to make Wes stand out among the crowd. That's half the battle and that part is fine. It taught me one small thing about racing. The other half is the story and the characters and all the rest. That part is not so fine. I get the father-son dysfunction, but that's all this movie has. The girlfriend has one interesting aspect. After that card gets played, the story has nothing else. Edward James Olmos is wasted in an one-dimensional role. The story needs a villain. They give the rival family, but the movie does nothing to showcase them. This is a not-so-good B-movie.

What's good: some of the concepts around grassroots racing, some of the lingo

What's bad: everything else. This movie failed to achieve anything well.

I suppose this movie isn't unique in its failure to deliver on all fronts when compared to other motorcycle, go-kart, or car racing movies but with every bad example produced, there is evidence of what not to do and the bar for bare minimum should get higher each time, automatically so my expectations, maybe hope, is that it will get better.

Maybe the subject matter experts bounce around from one project to another and that's where the potential is limited.

So this movie is geared towards riders. I guess they thought we wouldn't notice that his bike goes from a hayabusa to a gsxr back to a busa and again back to a gsxr in every other frame lol. That part is honestly hard for me to get past. The movie is kind of fast paced so that's a bonus for how relatively dull it is. They use the whole estranged father sprinkled in with a love story a little too predictably. Definitely a waste of these actors talents, especially Edward James Almos. Gratuitous "I have a 6pack" workout scenes. Overall the movie is watchable if you don't know a lot about bikes or racing.

No pun intended - if you like racing movies, I might not even have to say or write anything here. Just go watch it I reckon. On the other hand, maybe you do care about casting (I do like the actors involved, check them out and see if they play a role for you - again no pun intended) ... and/or the story there may be something to check before you decide to watch anyway.

All that said, do no forget this is a low budget movie. And not even close to be compared to Fast & Furious (which was also a remake of something completely different and all that). So while there may not be anything new to watch here (racing scenes are well shot I should add), it all depends on your own taste ...