Torque (2004)

The producer of THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS (2001) and XXX (2002) delivers another amped-up road-racing action spectacle in TORQUE. It's the saga of Ford (Martin Henderson) a motorcycle-riding outlaw who wants to clear his name of drug and murder charges. The cops are after him, as are rival cycle gangs caught up in a war over turf rights. Everyone in the film is tough, cool, and has lightning-fast reflexes. Ice Cube lends some heavier-than-a-Mack-truck screen presence as the leader of the Reapers, an African-American motorcycle gang who thinks Ford killed one of their members. Sexy Monet Mazur is great as Slade, th...
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e rough-and-tumble girl Ford left behind when he had to flee the country, and whose love he's now come back to reclaim. The thumping soundtrack includes offerings by Jane's Addiction, Nickelback, Kid Rock, and Hoobastank. There's nonstop trick camera work, fantastic stunts and action set pieces--like one motorcycle chase that takes place on top of, in front of, and inside a train. Slade even gets to have a motorcycle cat fight with the bad guy's girlfriend. Acclaimed music video director Joseph Kahn pours creative energy into every yard of this no-nonsense popcorn movie, his first feature film. It acknowledges its junky exploitation roots proudly, and at times seems to achieve some sort of twisted new level of pop art with its well-paced, colorful, giddy, gritty forward momentum.
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Shelved for almost a full year, the feature-film debut of acclaimed music video director Joseph Kahn, Torque is an action thriller set in the fast-paced, high-adrenaline world of biker gangs. Martin Henderson (The Ring) stars as Cary, a biker who is framed for the murder of a gang leader Trey's (Ice Cube) brother by Henry (Matt Schulze). Now, Cary finds himself on the run from both Trey's gang and the FBI, headed by the wise-cracking Agent McPherson Adam Scott. From Neal H. Moritz, producer of The Fast and the Furious and XXX, Torque co-stars Jaime Pressly and Monet Mazur.

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Motorrijder Cary Ford keert terug naar zijn woonplaats voor de hereniging met zijn vriendin Shane. Ook heeft hij nog een aantal zaken te regelen. Bij vertrek was hij in bezit van een aantal motoren, die toebehoorden aan Henry. Henry is een nietsontziende drugsdealer en leider van de Hellions motorbende. Nu wil Henry zijn motoren terug, want de motoren hebben iets waardevollers dan benzine in hun tank. Als blijkt dat Ford niet vrijwillig meewerkt, laat Henry hem opdraaien voor de moord op Junior, de jongere broer van Trey (Ice Cube), de beruchte leider van de Reapers motorbende is. Met behulp van zijn vrienden Dal...
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ton en Val moet Ford uit handen blijven van Trey en een FBI-agent, die hem op de hielen zit. Racend op zijn motor gaat hij de strijd aan om zijn vijanden voor te blijven. Dit is zijn laatste kans om zijn onschuld te bewijzen....
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