Torque

From the post-2 FAST 2 FURIOUS road to brain death, it's hard to imagine that earlier riffs on America's love affair with hot wheels, from THE WILD ANGELS (1966) to the satirical DEATH RACE 2000 (1975), were once considered pointless exercises in shameless exploitation. Pretty-boy biker Cary Ford (Kurt Russell-lookalike Martin Henderson) returns to California after six months on the lam in Thailand, evading cops who mistakenly think he's a motorcycle thief and big-time meth dealer. He did boost a pair of bikes from cycle-savage Henry James (Matt Schulze), but only because James was hiding drugs in them; Ford intended to blow the whistle on James, but somehow things w...