Fast Track: Vitesse infernale

What do you need to make a good film? Naked Women, Cars, a copied story? Of course not and that's why Fast Track - No Limits isn't a good film. I can't understand how someone can invest money in making such a film. The film is technically well done but what is this good for when the story is so stupid. The Fast and the Furious obviously hasn't the same story, it has a much better one, Fast Track tries to copy the key elements of it. The writers of Fast Track didn't had any idea worth to make a movie of it, although they made this and it's a cheek. 3 stars for the quality of the production. 0 stars for the story. It really hurts to watch this film and in my opinion it is a huge waste of money and a disgrace for the German film industry, which shouldn't try to copy Hollywood movies.

Which is hardly a compliment. But at least the quality is of high standard. The acting starts off on a very low note, but reaches average by the end of this flick.

The story is a follows: Year 2008. In an alternate universe Germany is apparently a British colony (everyone speaks British English, even German policemen amongst themselves). In this Shakespearen language loving country the new craze is street car racing. Naturally these go hand in hand with hot crazed chicks and crooks. Katie Reed (Erin Cahill) is an orphaned kid, whose only heirloom is a body-shop and repair-shop. Indebted she tries to do everything possible to get $60 000, including having sex with the bank representative. And she has three days to do so.

As she has two expensive race cars she decides to push up the ante and risk the cars for some street-car racing gambling. Honestly each of the cars looks to be worth some $50000-$60000. But instead of selling them she decides its better to risk them crashing and becoming worthless. I understand she's sentimental but we are told that the repair shop is the dearest thing on earth for her, not the cars... so why just not sell one of the two cars to get out of debt? That essentially is how ridiculous the plot is (that and for instance people cheering the winner of a race, whilst another car is burning and the driver may well be blown up any second now... and really no one actually wants this guy to die). Fortunately productions creds are very high and it looks like a decent budget was thrown into making this movie. Car chases are well choreographed (?) and if you like that kind of thing you may well ignore the stupidity of the characters and the shallowness of the script.

Argue all you want that its a fast & furious clone, but take the time to recognize this movie on its own merits. Budget was obviously an issue in this film and anyone who is into the street racing scene or racing in general will realize the obvious plot holes, but as pure entertainment this flick is a standout. Lots of adrenaline rush scenes and sexy hot action with actors and actresses who despite knowing that there will be no Oscars for their performances put their all into it. to sum it up....you've seen this flick before in one guise or the next, but don't let that stop you from spending some time with Fast Track: No Limits...its not a great time, but its worth the admission price.

My expectation for this movie was a pathetic story used largely as an excuse to show hot girls and expensive custom cars driving fast with lots of bikinis and street-racing / car chasing action, which has been the standard for the popular street-racing films from Hollywood recently. Surprisingly this movie, while still keeping the many stereotypical themes from this genre, had a story that was well thought-out, unpredictable, and became an excellent foundation upon which to build the street-racing and car chasing action I was looking for.

Unfortunately there were some unfortunate goofs in the movie and the dialog was very weak at times -- I believe it could have been much better than it was.

This movie is also missing some of the big expensive and flashy action scenes from Hollywood street-racing movies. However, looking back on the movie I feel this served to make the movie more real and less imaginary. Writing as someone who views "The Fast and The Furious" as Hollywood's pathetic attempt at making a respectable street-racing movie I was able to watch this movie and, at long last, actually care about how winning or losing street-races impacted the story being told. The ending turned out to be a lot simpler than I would have preferred but it did bring the story full circle to a satisfying conclusion.

And I hope the reference to the Initial-D anime (with the cup of water in the car) was intentional, it was a nice touch.

Fast Track is going to be available in hotels across the US starting December 1st, 2009. So now you know, on your next trip, if one night you just want to stay in the room and watch and exciting movie, this is the one!!! If you like movies where you can feel the adrenaline and excitement while you are watching it; I would recommend it to you for sure! You will see scenes that would race your heart, full of action and velocity. But at the same time, the drama side of this movie would make you understand why these four people have so much passion for speed. And of course, heart racing would have to be mixed up with hot sexy scenes.