Which is hardly a compliment. But at least the quality is of high standard. The acting starts off on a very low note, but reaches average by the end of this flick.The story is a follows: Year 2008. In an alternate universe Germany is apparently a British colony (everyone speaks British English, even German policemen amongst themselves). In this Shakespearen language loving country the new craze is street car racing. Naturally these go hand in hand with hot crazed chicks and crooks. Katie Reed (Erin Cahill) is an orphaned kid, whose only heirloom is a body-shop and repair-shop. Indebted she tries to do everything possible to get $60 000, including having sex with the bank representative. And she has three days to do so.As she has two expensive race cars she decides to push up the ante and risk the cars for some street-car racing gambling. Honestly each of the cars looks to be worth some $50000-$60000. But instead of selling them she decides its better to risk them crashing and becoming worthless. I understand she's sentimental but we are told that the repair shop is the dearest thing on earth for her, not the cars... so why just not sell one of the two cars to get out of debt? That essentially is how ridiculous the plot is (that and for instance people cheering the winner of a race, whilst another car is burning and the driver may well be blown up any second now... and really no one actually wants this guy to die). Fortunately productions creds are very high and it looks like a decent budget was thrown into making this movie. Car chases are well choreographed (?) and if you like that kind of thing you may well ignore the stupidity of the characters and the shallowness of the script.

My expectation for this movie was a pathetic story used largely as an excuse to show hot girls and expensive custom cars driving fast with lots of bikinis and street-racing / car chasing action, which has been the standard for the popular street-racing films from Hollywood recently. Surprisingly this movie, while still keeping the many stereotypical themes from this genre, had a story that was well thought-out, unpredictable, and became an excellent foundation upon which to build the street-racing and car chasing action I was looking for.Unfortunately there were some unfortunate goofs in the movie and the dialog was very weak at times -- I believe it could have been much better than it was.This movie is also missing some of the big expensive and flashy action scenes from Hollywood street-racing movies. However, looking back on the movie I feel this served to make the movie more real and less imaginary. Writing as someone who views "The Fast and The Furious" as Hollywood's pathetic attempt at making a respectable street-racing movie I was able to watch this movie and, at long last, actually care about how winning or losing street-races impacted the story being told. The ending turned out to be a lot simpler than I would have preferred but it did bring the story full circle to a satisfying conclusion.And I hope the reference to the Initial-D anime (with the cup of water in the car) was intentional, it was a nice touch.

If it were a parody of Fast & furious it would be a really good movie. Tragically the director of this B-movie was serious about it. During the movie we assist to many ... "stunts", some of them are done with cars, others are done with the plot. A friend of 'pizza boy' loses a race and as a result the opponent cuts his hand: 'pizza boy' arrives and incidentally he has got a box of ice with a bottle of champagne in the back of his car. Obviously it's normal for any German pizza boy to drive around the city always with a bottle of chilled champagne. And it's indeed a good idea, because if you happen to meet somebody who just lost a hand, you can always throw away the champagne and put the hand inside ice, while you reach the nearest hospital. And that's exactly what 'pizza boy' does. Another good laugh is courtesy of the scene when some thieves are arrested: a policeman throws a bottle of his pee in the air and shoot it. Caught by surprise, all these bad ass criminals stop and stand still in horror, totally defeated. And they get arrested. I cannot believe that other users commented that the plot is poor, but technically the movie is well done. I'd rather say that the plot well suits the technical level of the movie. Even a casual spectator would notice the amateurish quality of this movie: take for example the scene when pizza boy and girl enter the abandoned hangar at the airport. She opens a regular door! Only a few scenes before, the mechanic from the garage had gladly announced that a brand new pair of vertical doors have been installed in the car because they look such cool. Where are they now?

This movie is the pinnacle of Bosnian and redneck drivers kicking Russian asses in the German underground. The plot consists of a family garage, love and life at stake and a gangster thrown in for not much reason. Then there is good vs. evil vs. not –so-sure, which, by far, is the best part. While the movie tries to deliver the feeling of a German underground racing mixed with family and emotional values it fails at the very heart of it - the racing part. The racing drivers are cruising with an A4 and a police BMW 5th series (not to be confused with M5) doing their usual police/theft chases and through the night they are racing Fords, Nissans and… not much more! Add the famous Z4 Coupe just to make sure you get how much of 'real' racers they are.The 'gangster' has a Bentley and a few Ferraris in the garage, but of course they are not so fast. Let's just not mention how famous Europeans are for their love of Japanese and especially American cars as it is well described in Top Gear, Fifth Gear, every car magazine ant the sales charts... Then there is the fact that within 250 km. range from the filming location there are about 20 faster serial models being produced...well let's forget about that. I blame the low budget for not letting one of those cars get involved, but that is part of the 'magical' experience in my view. On the positive note there are some kick-ass driving in the movie. Acting is not that cheesy, although you could hardly like most of the characters, they are good enough to provoke some emotional attachments. I give it 4 out of 10 because it is a good try for the German cinema. Although, I have no idea what Germany had to do with it. The classy act from the main two racers makes up for the step from 3 to 4. A mediocre time waster if you got a lot of it.