Street Racer is a Speed Racer rip off in name, but a fast and furious clone in all other aspects from the nu-metal and L.A hip hop soundtrack to the strikingly similar looking Paul Walker stand-in protagonist.
Unfortunately, Street Racer, like near all Asylum films that I have seen, is neither exploitative enough to be stupefyingly mesmerising, inept enough to be a content goldmine, or in any which way enough of a spectacle to be a worthwhile watch. Sherlock Holmes remains still to be the sole exception to the rule as it becomes depressingly clear, depressingly quickly, that Street Racer is another lifetime movie with delusions of blockbusting and has no interest whatsoever of any deviation. The most hilarious moments come in every single scene involving a speeding vehicle as the editing style of the Fast and the Furious films is 'homaged' on a shoe string rather than the near limitless resources of a studio editing department. It was a doleful reminder for me of the now near four decade monopoly of the big six, soon to be big five, film studios whose insipid, accountant lead philosophy has spread like a cancer to every single corner of the industry worldwide.
Street Racer has some decent storytelling that i begrudgingly admit. Some character actors in the supporting cast does a good job in giving their scenes gravitas. However, the drama stops there as the rest of the film drowns out this good will with the kind of sentimental gush that permeated every other youth-marketed film of the time. An after school special masquerading as escapism. I puke.
The Asylum is an exploitation film production house that plays it safe to an insufferable degree and Street Racer is their atypical product. It is toothless, digital video schlock with no exploitation elements to hold interest and way too much investment in it's lacklustre, mirth enduringly moralistic screenplay.
Unfortunately, Street Racer, like near all Asylum films that I have seen, is neither exploitative enough to be stupefyingly mesmerising, inept enough to be a content goldmine, or in any which way enough of a spectacle to be a worthwhile watch. Sherlock Holmes remains still to be the sole exception to the rule as it becomes depressingly clear, depressingly quickly, that Street Racer is another lifetime movie with delusions of blockbusting and has no interest whatsoever of any deviation. The most hilarious moments come in every single scene involving a speeding vehicle as the editing style of the Fast and the Furious films is 'homaged' on a shoe string rather than the near limitless resources of a studio editing department. It was a doleful reminder for me of the now near four decade monopoly of the big six, soon to be big five, film studios whose insipid, accountant lead philosophy has spread like a cancer to every single corner of the industry worldwide.
Street Racer has some decent storytelling that i begrudgingly admit. Some character actors in the supporting cast does a good job in giving their scenes gravitas. However, the drama stops there as the rest of the film drowns out this good will with the kind of sentimental gush that permeated every other youth-marketed film of the time. An after school special masquerading as escapism. I puke.
The Asylum is an exploitation film production house that plays it safe to an insufferable degree and Street Racer is their atypical product. It is toothless, digital video schlock with no exploitation elements to hold interest and way too much investment in it's lacklustre, mirth enduringly moralistic screenplay.