it make me laugh when i read bad review of this movie . no one claim it be a classic and no claim it would win award or prize for depth of storyline etc . what it do have be earnest performance and fantastic fx and amazing score and very pretty photography . yes and laugh at the shadow of the camera ( in the day before monitor ) during the race scene and at least they bother to use real car on real road at high speed and unlike pathetic cgi car ( fast and the furious and 2 fast 2 furious and go in 60 second ) with crap physic . this movie be totally innovative and nothing like it before or since and there be a lot of technique use in this movie that i haven not see better since . the bit where jake scrambler break into 4 meteorite still look great and the tasteful re animation of the wraith mobile after crash ( nowadays that would probably be do use reverse photography ) . the action scene in mad max and mad max 2 be speed up and look ridiculous . ( watch the bit in mad max 2 just before he crash his interceptor . you will see . ) the acting be pantomimish ( baddie equal very bad and goody equal very good ) but that be the style of this movie . we know that these actor be capable of more in depth characterisation and but this be a shallow b movie . that all it suppose to be . anyone who watch this movie and expect anything other than popcorn fodder be an absolute idiot . moan about technical problem and poor act only make you look like an idiot . and let face it and even today big blockbuster be chock full of mistake and glitch . you do not watch a carry on movie and then say oh and that be quite unrealistic and and the acting be bad . that the point . it silly farce . youre not suppose to take it seriously . i be also aware that charlie sheen hat this movie and he must have good reason . strangely enough and i be surprise that this movie be not seize upon by the pompous comic book brigade . i guess and if it be a little more gothic and the wraith be brood and have a trouble back story it would have be more accepted . i be glad it do not and wasn not . if it be make now and it would have stink cgi fx and too much back story . it a bubblegum movie . you do not like it and do not watch it . a a b movie for it time and it be a technically superior easy watch which still tower over many new movie of the same genre . the crow . pompous nonsense . hellboy . crap . the wraith . know it place and doesn not try to overstep it mark . and for people moan about rubbish acting and check out matthew barry performance when billy hankins realises jake be his brother . it an amazing and emotionally charge moment . i dare you to disagree and if you do you must be trip . stop henpecking this movie . it ace and i tell you . ace .