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Avg. Critic Score: 41 out of 100 Mixed or average reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
14 Not for kids 15 and under
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 80
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    A terrific action picture, fast-moving, studded with great stunts and smart enough not to take itself too seriously. Amid a plethora of high-minded, big-deal, year-end Oscar contenders, it offers a welcome contrast (and respite). Read full review

  • 75
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    The movie is a guzzle of yahoo-Mountain Dew empty-calorie satisfaction: A quick blood-sugar high, an eyeful of bikes and bosoms, and you're out of the theater in 80 minutes. And on a bleak winter's day, that can be meal enough. Read full review

  • 63
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    The first three minutes convince us we're are looking at a commercial before the feature begins. Then we realize the whole movie will look like this. Read full review

  • 60
    Variety | Joe Leydon

    A spectacularly trashy and aggressively flashy motorcycle melodrama in which computer-enhanced action scenes, unbound by gravity or logic, are choreographed, photographed and edited to resemble video-game stratagems. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    The cycle thrills here are everything: flips, collisions, a chase across the top of a fast-moving train and even a zoom down the aisle of one of the train's cars as the passengers take it in stride. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

    The loudest, trashiest, stupidest, cheesiest celebration of ritualized male aggression of 2004. Read full review

  • 30
    The Hollywood Reporter | Michael Rechtshaffen

    With the exception of a decent train-top chase, Torque is all vroom and no action. Read full review

  • 30
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    By Monday, Torque will look like a period piece with its expiration date, January 2004, prominently displayed. The inevitable movie-inspired video game will appear more realistic. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post | Michael O'Sullivan

    With the exception of a few dazzling special effects and a digitally enhanced camera move or two... it's also a towering bore. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    It's only January, but already we have a strong candidate for the most thunderingly stupid movie of the year. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Not for kids 15 and under Silly and violent, mostly comprised of stunts.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie has a lot of violence for a PG-13, including many crashes and explosions, shooting, punching, kicking, and strangulation. Characters are killed. Characters drink, smoke, and use strong language, including the n-word and other epithets. One character gives another the finger. Characters ride in reckless and extremely dangerous ways, often without helmets. The plot centers on drug dealing. There are some sexual references but nothing very explicit. The soft drink product placement is particularly intrusive.
  • Families can talk about why Cary ran away and why he came back.
The good stuff
  • rolemodels true1 Positive role models: Diverse characters are strong and loyal.
What to watch for
  • violence false5 Violence: Intense peril and violence, many explosions and crashes, characters killed. Intense peril.
  • sex false3 Sex: Sexual references and situations.
  • language false3 Language: Strong language for a PG-13.
  • consumerism false3 Consumerism: The soft drink product placement is particularly intrusive.
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Characters sell drugs, drinking, smoking.
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