(PG)
Youngsters inured to video games and television cartoon idiocies should enjoy the visceral impact of this simplistic and painfully noisy, excessively-flashy orgy of special effects.
Racing driver Emile Hirsch battles to win an all-out race to redeem his family’s honour and avenge his brother’s death.
The frequently incomprehensible plot is simply a peg for ostentatious movie magic created at the behest of writer-director-producers Wachowski Brothers (the pair behind the Matrix trilogy).
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