As hollow and fundamentally false as a video driving game, this noisy, time-wasting spectacle is crammed with what purports to be characters, except that not one of them has any more depth than will fit into a one-line description. Puppyish newcomer Jimmy Bly (Kip Pardue) has the raw talent to be a champion, but chokes under pressure. His sleek brother and business manager DeMille (Robert Sean Leonard) is a manipulative weasel. Leathery old-timer Joe Tanto (Stallone), who screwed up his own career, wants to help the rookie avoid making the same mistakes. Bly's chief competitor, high-cheekboned Beau Brandenberg (Til Schweiger), looks like an ice man but is really driv...
Released:
2001
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
115 mins