Dirt

I thought this was a pretty good little flick. Really liked Kevin Dillion and the character "Dez". With a little better promotion I think it could do well.

I'll attempt to put aside what I know about the politics and positions of Forrest Lucas the executive producer of this film (as the viewers can look that up for themselves) and try and rate the movie on its own merits.

I picked this DVD up at Redbox, not knowing anything about it. and it's not a bad B-movie quality endeavor. Kevin Dillon stars as Rick Radden, an ex-champion off-road racer and who now owns his own truck racing team. DeRon Horton co-stars as Dez Truss, s former car thief, who's now trying to go straight and is given a second chance by Rick to work with his team.

They're both quite believable in their roles, as are many in the supporting cast. The plot elements are quite predictable and formulaic on the whole, but an air of tension is reasonably maintained in the off-road racing scenes and other areas, and there's an eventual feel-good aspect to it all.

Overall, aside from some of the blatant commercial plugs, I felt the film was reasonably well presented and better than I expected.

Might be an old cliche, but today it's good to watch a movie like this. Young black teen gets an opportunity to get out of the car stealing business and makes good with the help of a dirt track race truck owner and his team. Good race scenes very realistic.

Dez Truss (DeRon Horton) has been raising his younger sister by himself and stealing cars for a crime syndicate. He gets caught. His former mentor police Captain Joe Freeman is trying to keep him out of prison and recruits racing team owner Rick Radden (Kevin Dillon) to hire him.

I like the car action although that could probably be seen in some obscure sports channels. There is an early car chase which leads to a crash. It is fine stunt work. The story is fine for the most part. It has all the standard elements. This has some veteran actors and I like DeRon. The filmmaking is perfunctory for lesser work.

I was hoping the producers of this movie would get inspiration from 'Days of Thunder' and take the flick to another level. Well, that didn't happen, and that was a shame and a lost opportunity. But the budget didn't allow them to do much. So, it's just an "OK" movie and that's it. Nothing new happens.