200 MPH (2011)

Strong and Moving!

Awesome Movie

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Sixty per cent of votes cast on IMDb (international movie database) for '200mph' were for a score of 1 out of ten.This was premiered on the SyFy channel...not sure what and how it's science fiction. I don't recall them ever showing Gone in Sixty Seconds...because that's the obvious comparative.It's straight to DVD and the Mazda RX7's and souped Nissan's are the only stars, adding humans sends things down the pan completely. I'm no car mechanic (Top Gear is about as close as I get) but I know that you should keep calling the same car model the same name and that you don't design a faster car (40mph extra, on top end) hammering keys on a laptop, whilst it's perched on the front wing of said car, say some magic words and hey presto! Everyone hi-fives and are delighted. The 'parts' get magically delivered for the next scene.The characters are either so stereotypical, such a chief mechanic being a young girl, in tank top and short shorts, who talks very fast, presuming to blind us with her non-sensical knowledge. Or, they're completely ridiculous. e.g. the young man who gets killed and thus the big race, as revenge, has a raggedy beard that's not trimmed or tidy and looks a bit of a tramp. He rolls home in this $80,000 top sports car, cos he's just been made manager of the franchise for the district and he can take home any car he wants. And his mother is a stripper. She is, I'm not making that one up...I tried to shut out all superfluous stuff other than the action. 160mph around L.A.? Well, very shaky cameras that obviously show the warp speed and sonic boom after, CGI and cut-editing and juddery this and that and everything.The soundtrack does its best to keep up and frankly, it's the best bit. I stopped watching it half way through. I'm due to retire in 20 odd years time and every moment is precious....Forget this one, unless you want to see the most utterly worse cop in history, all history, anywhere. Ever. He keeps up with the naughty boys and girls in an unmarked Ford saloon. 0/10.

I watched this on Netflix cause I thought it would be good among other available movies there to watch. Now, I won't completely shoot it down because the basic storyline was okay and comprehendible (unlike inception where I couldn't ever tell what really was going on most the time), it made sense and had a happy ending. The dialog could have been written better. The abundant use of Nissans got me excited in the beginning, as i am a fan of Nissan cars. On the downside the computer generated effects were pretty unfinished, you could definitely tell when they occurred (looked like the 3d rendering animation). The car details where inaccurate, the 370z looks more like a 350z when crashed. It's later reffered to as an $80k car, which in real life they're $30-40k. I'm Also pretty sure that it would not fare that well against a GTR in real life, the 370z comes stock with about 330hp, the GTR is stock with 530hp and out-performed the Lexus LFA in a race I believe Motortrend organized. The other car was definitely not an MX-5.

I am going to defend this movie; at least a little bit. It's yet another lower budget movie based on street racing, and lets face it no true gear head is ever happy with movies like this. Period. Knowing that this movie was a decent movie for the time, would i recommend you go out of your way to watch it? No, but if you have spare time go a head.Now to cover some of the things other reviewers have said...1. The Nissan in the movie was a 370z; not a 350z.2. The 370z costs $42,000 roughly in the form that it was in for the movie.3. The $90,000 car was the Nissan GT-R, not the 370z.4. They have always made the GT-R both left and right hand drive so having it as such is valid for whomever complained.Now, we all know movies are not true. The explosions we see are over done for special effects in action movies so why does it surprise you they stretch the truth for a car movie.

The CG is awful, the acting isn't all that good (for the most part.The filmography is actually decent; I don't know anyone who could reproduce this movie with a $1000 budget. (I am a credentialed photographer for Formula Drift)THE BAD:-Since when is the RX7 called an MX5?-Why does the green RX7 turn into a green S14?-How is a 350Z an $80K car? Or even close to stock reach speeds of 190+? (sorry for not quoting here)How on earth can you expect it to take on a GTR? (At least they were correct on what it was)So basically, this movie sucks if you are a car person. And you probably won't be watching this if you aren't... But it's not like a bunch of kids just thew this together.