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Days of Thunder [Region 2]

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With IDays of Thunder/I, director Tony Scott tried to do for the Indy 500 what he did for the U.S. Air Force with ITop Gun/I. But without ITop Gun/I’s go-go soundtrack and visual feats, Scott merely ends up with a Tom Cruise vehicle that’s out of gas. P 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. PI Days of Thunder/I 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. I–Ethan Brown/I

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Days of Thunder [Region 2] CustomerReview

The film, whilst basically Top Gun for racing cars, is good, escapist fun. Even after several intervening years, the action still looks good and the story competent enough to hold your attention. There is nothing deep in the film – rookie driver, Tom Cruise, is brilliant but unpolished and needs the guidance of pit team boss Robert Duval to mould him into a race winner (with the inevitable on-off buddy relationship along the way). Then comes disaster with a serious crash (and the intervention of beautiful doctor and love-interest Nicole Kidman) before Cruise has a shot at the title. But will he be able to drive again after the trauma of the crash – erm…what do you think?. Along the way, there is a tough-guy rival who Cruise bonds with whilst having a road race; one of the best sequences in the film. You half expect Cruise to request a fly-by at the end of the film or, at least, shoot down a few Migs. Yes, it’s a pretty mindless film but you knew that, right? As for the transfer to blu-ray, it was good but not overwhelming. Too much grain on clear blue skies. Same with the sound; it never really grabs you by the throat, even with all the cars screaming round the track. That said, it’s an old film and the quality on blu-ray was far superior to my old DVD. Overall, if you want two hours of escapist fun – this is it; Cruise at his boyish best.

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