Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. Days of Heaven is a compelling adventure story and a riveting meditation on the soulscape of America.
2. Don Simpson. Jerry Bruckheimer. Bad Movie.
3. Fun racing movie. Cruise in top melodramatic form with Duvall as an anchor.
4. It's one thing to market a film solely on the strength of its star. It's quite another to go ahead and make the film that way.
5. Gentlemen, start your clichés.
6. In Days of Thunder, Tom Cruise tries to do for NASCAR racing what he did for bartending in Cocktail. Which is to say: Nothing.
7. An entertainment of great skill but predictable construction.
8. Cars. Cars cars cars cars. Vroom! Vroom vroom vroom! Crash! Tom and Nicole have sex! Cars cars vroom vroom! Crash! Vroom!
9. Exactly what it promises to be: Not Much -- but at dizzying speed, stripped down and free of wind-resistant subtlety. There's a certain integrity to that. A certain deafening integrity.
10. There's no sin in a movie that's just flat-out entertainment, but with some care this movie could have been much better -- instead of just aspiring to be better.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?
Days of Thunder has Tom Cruise and plenty of flash going for it, but they aren't enough to compensate for the stock plot, two-dimensional characters, and poorly written dialogue.