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Ever since the mainstream success of 2001's "The Fast and the Furious", street racing movies have been a recurring subject for big and small film studios alike. Despite the relative popularity of movies in this vein, they tend to draw the ire of "gearheads" (or petrolheads, for those across the pond) due to their questionable representation of cars, car culture, racing, and automotive technology. Whether it be nonsensical techno-babble, or impossible-to-reconcile vehicle physics, there tends to be a deluge of blind idiot errors or silly oversights that annoy those of us whose hearts pump synthetic oil rather than blood.

No movie is wholly immune to such things, but thankfully, "Born to Race" averts the aforementioned TFATF-esque ludicrousness. The research has clearly been done when it comes to the techno-babble strewn throughout the film. Moreover, car culture and drag racing is more or less accurately represented where other movies fall flat. The American muscle cars shown aren't the typical triumvirate of Mustang, Camaro, and Charger/Challenger (though these are certainly featured within). A Buick Grand National plays a significant role in the film, and is a recurring sight throughout, and there are scenes exhibiting an Oldsmobile 442, Chevrolet Bel Air and Nova, and even the Lil' Red Express 1979 Dodge D150 drag truck. In summation, the cars, car jargon, and car culture has a greater, more accurate representation than most Hollywood racer films.

The other large failing of many street racing-genre films is the catastrophically canned acting the leads and support dole out. While the script is nothing short of generic high school hero stuff, the acting is of an unusually high caliber. Lead Joseph Cross, of "Running With Scissors" fame, delivers a solid, if slightly weedy performance, and the big bad bully, played by Brando Eaton, does well with what he's given to work with. My personal favorite character, the father of the protagonist, played by veteran John Pyper-Ferguson, puts forth an excellent effort, managing to be lovable, despicable, and humorous all at once.

Where other street racer movies are a complete mess of poor acting and Wikipedia knowledge, Born to Race manages a solid cinema experience for a fraction of the cost of the big boys. I would recommend this film to any street racing/drag racing aficionados, as well as anyone who likes a decent high school hero drama-type story.

Gearheads may have been given a lot of trash-worthy action-racing titles lately, mostly all trying to rip and copy on Vin Diesel's Fast & Furious franchise. But the stupid part about it is that it seems like each one of those "street racing" movies get dumber by the sequel and stupider by the spin-off, except for this movie...Born to Race.

I loved this movie because it stays completely true to itself. One of the dumbest parts about Tokyo Drift was how many cars that kid burned through, there was no respect for the vehicles they way they respected the cars, the tuning and the performance in this movie. Now, if you're not a gear-head a lot of the lingo will go over your head, but if you're not really into cars or racing movies then I don't see why you would be reading reviews for a movie about cars and racing(?) Anyways, the writing is actually several times better than most Hollywood flicks. They don't have "easy answers" for everything and most scenes fade out instead trying to drag on and force characters to resolve things. Mostly because in real life we don't always resolve things in one sitting.

I also liked that the movie stayed true to the character direction, even with its clichés...It was easy to both hate and root for the protagonist in this film because you could understand why he did the things he did, but at the same time, he was a young idiot, so the director and writer did a job of balancing it out.

Also, I just have to say, that 2011 Black Mustang was a freaking beast and the Subaru was a true standout star. I'm glad they also kept the races realistic with real cars and not all that crappy CG stuff.

This was a good low-budget film for car enthusiasts and racing fans.

Almost as interesting as flies crawling up a wall. The main character is whining and has all the acting ability of a walnut.

The movie is aspiring to be 2nd rate, the racing artificial and the love interest tween. We can neglect the fact that it glorifies teen stupidity at its finest. And when has ANY sanctioned competition in drag racing ever taken place without helmets, flameproof gear and other essential race safety gear. The story glorifies the lack of thought given by teens to anything beyond their own hedonistic pursuits.

The value of this movie is as an object lesson in abject stupidity. Irresponsible and forced are the best words to describe this farce.

Since the beginning you know how the movie will be end. Is not at all original, the movie just takes things (a lot of them) from other movies. Bad acting, poor dialogs, anodyne characters. The hero, the guy that looks like a young Quentin Tarantino is boring, and at the end, who cares if he wins or not? Like other reviewer said, the film is full of clichés: the High School bad guy, his girlfriend who fall in love with the new kid in town, the rich dad, the drunk/loser dad, etc, etc. Nothing new. If you want to waste 94 minutes of your life, go ahead and watch it. There's a movie much better than this, even better than Tokyo Drift. Is called "Initial D". I assure you, you won't be disappointed with Initial D. You won't regret using 107 minutes from your life to watch it.

.. and that's not a bad thing. Most car movies out there are entertainment-only movies for the general audience, so they are full of hammy dialog, hammy acting, hammy directing and inaccuracies about cars.

This is fairly accurate about cars (not perfect, but not outrageous either), has some hammy dialog but the acting and directing are quite competent compared with the Fast and the Furious.

I highly recommend this film for lovers of cars and drag racing in particular. It's also good to see street racers take it to the track like they should; although there are scenes of irresponsible driving, those scenes don't go well for the main character and the movie leads the audience morally in the right direction: to the track.

Terrible film. The whole thing couldn't be more of a cliché if it tried. You have the rebellious teenager who doesn't like his step dad, truants school and who can't control his anger getting kicked out by his mother who's at wits end to go live with his distant and coincidentally alcoholic father who has a troubled past due to racing. He gets sent to a high school where he begins dating the girl who only became popular by dating the cocky and arrogant alpha racer. Big surprise this popular jerk comes into conflict with our protagonist. At a party (as if it wasn't clichéd enough)You also have the socially rejected nerds who excel at performance modifying and are befriended by the rebellious teen to everyone's surprise I'm sure.

The protagonist is played by Joseph Cross who was twenty five at the time this film was released and who looks nothing like a seventeen year old.

This film is like Never Back Down and Fast and Furious came together to produce a terrible mutant off spring that only just isn't ugly enough to be chained up in the basement.

The one redeemable factor about this film is the cars. As an avid car enthusiast I was pleased with the fairly vast variety of cars. However, I would have preferred to have seen more time spent showing the viewers the engine and inner workings of the cars the way the Fast and Furious franchise tends to.

Better researched and more authentic than the first couple F&F movies, just less action.

I don't know where I found this movie, but I was expecting it to be terrible after reading the summary, yet it was surprisingly good. The acting was better than you get from half of the big studio releases lately, and despite the made-for-TV feel, and fairly predictable story, it all came together well didn't feel hokey or anything.

Even someone who knows a lot about cars can enjoy it because they apparently had some tech people involved who weren't idiots.

I gave it an 8 because it was way better than any attempt in this genre with a limited budget.

I saw this movie on the cable video store and it caught my eye. I'm a car guy and have seen the Fast & Furious franchise movies amongst others. The movie starts off like F&F movie, in particular Tokyo Drift, with the LA Street Race scene. The kid ruins his life and makes a turn around, I'll leave it at that and you can get more from the synopsis.

What makes this movie great is they do use a mixture of Domestic and Import cars. The opening credits have one race with a late model mustang and late model Monte Carlo, which then has your imports. There are more scenes like that including a new 5.0, the last generation camaro, and some oldies, including a street race with a Belair and a Grand National. This Definitely something that does stand out from the other movies by not having just imports or having one single American muscle car.

Also another plus is the final scenes of the movie take place at the race strip, which in my opinion and through out this movie, is trying to get the underlying message that knuckleheads need to start taking this race scene back to the track instead of the streets.

Another point which no one has pointed out is the use of the 2011 Mustang in this movie. Older car buffs might see this. 20 yrs ago the, the competition was the Late Model 5.0 and the Buick Grand National, which are seen in this movie. The director does show that this rival lives on with the new 5.0 Mustang and now with the WRX Subaru. Just a little something to note, nothing to write home about.

Overall this movie is definitely worth renting or buying whether your a fan of the illegal race scene or fan of the F&F franchise. The movie holds its own and is not a let down like the Asylum movies "Street Racer" and "200 MPH"

Born to race is essentially the street racing movie that can relate to real life. Not only is "Need for Speed" and the "F&F" series unrealistic (still great!), but neither of those use realistic cars that you can typically get(veyrons, 911gt3s etc.). Born to Race uses cars like imprezas and mustangs. This makes it so that teenagers and the younger drivers can actually see themselves with these cars and relate. Of course we can't and won't street race, but its still nice to see a car like yours being focused on in the movie. Those are not spoilers, its in the description of the movie... It is an enjoyable movie for a Sunday night or an airplane flight. Whether its flashy enough for a theater; your choice. Although I do not regret watching it, parts were a bit sappy. Only certain lines though, and this happens in all movies anyways so why complain. I held back on these kinds of smaller racing movies because I was attached to the big one; Fast and Furious. After watching this, it really was worth seeing.

(2011) Born To Race DRAMA/ ACTION

Because of the success of "The Fast And Furious" movies, more producers are taking notice, trying to make several different movies involving drag racing, including this recycled of a plot which could've been called "The Karate Kid" of racing. Straight to rental with a story also made-up and directed by Alex Ranarivelo, with the mother, Lisa (Sherry Stringfield) sending her teenage son, Danny (Joseph Cross) to live with her estranged husband, Frank (John Pyper-Ferguson) to another part of the city, since he was caught drag racing creating havoc with his mom and stepdad, and it is there is where he meets a wealthy son who's supposed to be the best racer around the area. And besides Danny stealing this wealthy yuppie's girlfriend, he also has to enter a race that offers scholarship and for bragging rights. This movie is at times, quite painful to watch since there were times I couldn't even make out what's happening in terms of the racing scenes. Simple minded plot that's already been done with an ending that totally sucked.

As I do all nights, I check IMDb for a movie to entertain me before going to bed. Okay, as in my watchlist I have Fast and Furious I said: why not, lets give this film a chance.

The movie, at the start, reminded me a lot of FastandFurious and I started thinking it was going to be the same. In some way it is, the point where the main actor destroys the car and gets kicked out of mom's house. But, I kept watching the movie and I would totally watch it again, no doubt.

It has emotion, feeling... And if you are a car-lover (new and old generation) you will feel the same. The way the director shows a Mustang GT from 2011 with a Mustang from 78 (if I'm not wrong) makes my passion run out of my body.

The ending was predictable at one point (OK, he is going to win) but didn't expect the last part (not ruining your future watch).

Just to conclude, watch it and enjoy it as I did. :)

The main actor shouldn't have been in this. He doesn't look the part. He looks way too old. His acting is basic. I can't imagine how he got this job. The kid would have been so much better as the main.

I don't see the point in the story. It goes no where fast. Literally the beginning has him set up for something "special" but no introduction to it at all, so we have no idea what he lost. It doesn't get better from there.

I could go on and on. I just don't see the point in wasting my time reviewing something that has wasted so much time already.

For my next 34 characters: the visuals are adequate.

The acting is actually better than F&F. The storyline is predictable but why does every movie need huge surprises and twists? Only one car explodes the whole movie. The cars are everyman obtainable and relatable. No supercars or money-is-no-object modification budgets. No races that last three minutes and have 12 gear shifts that are supposedly a 1/4 mile. And they listened to the technical advisers because the dialog about the car mods is actually pretty accurate.

Overall this very enjoyable and fun. Not an action movie masquerading as a car movie.

I was lucky enough to catch this movie at the video store a few years back. I liked it so much that I actually bought it when it went on sale.

Some of the reviews on here compared this film to Fast and Furious, which doesn't hold water as far as I'm concerned. Sure there were fast cars and racing. However, Born to Race was done on a lower budget but was as equally enjoyable and stands on its own merits.

Just taking the time here to recommend this film. It was very good by all accounts and pleasurable watch.

Very good movie, read a lot of intriguing predicaments about how bad it was going to be, But decided to watch it anyway. Less action then Fast and Furious movies, but none of this far fetched stuff, It's pure Japanese vs classic muscle, Acting is surprisingly good, Cars are decent, I highly recommend this film, Gave it a 9 due its lack of some racing. Hope to see a sequel of some sort! Set in a high school environment, really good for Teenagers to young adults. The movie has a few thrilling street racing moments, but for a film with a significantly small budget, it's quite good. If you loved Fast and Furious franchise, you'll love this. The Tuner vs Muscle climax is very exciting!

I have a hard time watching movies and TV shows anymore because of the facts are invented and the actors don't act like real people. I hated the Fast N furious movies because they weren't realistic at all. This movie might not have all the splash and dash but it still has a lot of good stuff that (as a person who has driven a WRX STI) I can see really happening. It is low budget and there is evidence of this, it also follows the same formula that nearly all movies follow but it is better than most. You can tell they went into great depths to keep the technical parts accurate and the details of sounds matching the cars were done well too. Many cars, such as the mustang and STI have VERY distinctive sounds and it was good to see that they matched them correctly. The story is good and the characters act like real human beings. For a "B" movie its better than most "A" movies.

Some of you are just ignorant and don't know what your talking about, its sad.

This is a pretty dang good movie for having next to no budget. And there are cars in this movie that are actually awesome, built rides unlike another street racing movie series....

I need to write more, so ill just let you know that a few of you posted some very untrue statements, which was awesome. I wont call you out because it must be nice living in your ignorant bliss. Wish i could do that.

So if your reading these, just watch the movie, give it a chance, there are no big names, but there are some recognizable faces.

By just looking at the title and cover you would think this is some ultra low budget cheese fest with poor acting and ridiculous plots but that is very far from the truth.

Despite being predictable and having the usual cliches it's very entertaining, all the actors played their parts well and the movie was well shot. The racing scenes are also very well done and there is no over the top nonsense, everything is completely plausible.

If your a fan of modified cars along with street and drag racing this will surely keep you entertained without doubt, the director or whomever was responsible did their homework with the technical aspects of cars and the modifications so all seems mostly realistic.

Give it a shot you won't be disappointed.

Firstly, I consider myself a tuner so i'm giving 10 out of 10 just because we totally lack films like these nowadays.

The movie was pretty much good to watch. The plot may not be top grade, but it was OK, even through for me pretty much predictable. I had no problems with acting and sound effects. Still somehow the film lacks the spirit of racing. I also didn't find any stupid logical mistakes which ussualy occur in films like these. If i would try to review the film without myself taking part in racing, i would point out that the film had enough things for usual watchers who don't take part in racing. Looking from a casual watcher's point of view I would give this film a strong 7.