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Am I the only one who thought it was awful?


The speeds were ridiculously slow, and over shown as if they were going faster...
We have cars that can do 300 km/h and they dont distort your face unless you're in an open top vehicle, directly in the wind stream.

Nothing at all was expanded on AT ALL. back store was missing for pretty much everything, the period during the movie was lacking a lot of explanations.

The 'Mega weapons' that the robot world was working on.... no explanation... a 'bio weapon' was the only explanation for what the glowing green beast was...

Just awful overall.

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I remember thinking the same when the first Fast and the Furious movie came out and they had all these special effects for 140 MPH and especially the parts when they used NOS lol

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For the lack of explanations and background stories and the ridiculous effects of speed, I think it's all because we see the movie from the point of view of the characters.
They don't know what's going on and they don't care enough to ask, they're just there to race. So we watch them race without knowing what's going on, aside from a fast race.
So when we see Funky Boy (the green bio weapon), it's perfect that we have no backstory on him (nor information of how the fight between him and the other giant robot-guy ends) because the characters have no clue that this thing was there, and they're no longer there to see how the fight ends. So we don't either.
Same with the face distortion and stuff, I think it was there to translate the speed as it was experienced by the characters rather than show the actual effects of speed on a car.

I understand how you could have wanted more since so much stuff was going on all the time. But this wasn't an epic science-fiction saga, it was a movie about a race, about the characters directly involved in that race and about the stuff that happens around the race that happens to be set in an epicful universe. And in that measure, Redline *beep* delivered.

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If you're watching for the plot, you're not watching Redline right.

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