Title: 3.5 stars
Product review: This movie, while acted pretty well by it's cast, is not without it's flaws. Viggo Mortensen ( whom we all loved in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy) puts on a decent performance as Frank T. Hopkins, the sometimes drunken cowboy who is dubbed, "the greatest long distance racer ever." The film strives at many points to touch you at an emotional level with very little success. Many portions of the film seem to go entirely unexplained (bad editing?), while others leave you pondering the mere plausibility of a few scenes.I would have expected that Viggo Mortensen would have had access to a wide assortment of roles following The Lord of the Rings, and am struggling to figure out what he saw in this script. Yes, the movie will lightly entertain you, but Viggo is capable of much more than this; action movies may be more up his alley, but this one doesn't deliver the real punch. At the end of the movie, you'll wish you'd have invested in a different DVD.
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