The film revolves around a local street-racer who partners with a rich and arrogant business associate, only to find himself framed by his colleague and sent to prison. After he gets out, he joins a New York-to-Los Angeles race to get revenge. But when the ex-partner learns of the scheme, he puts a massive bounty on the racer's head, forcing him to run a cross-country gauntlet of illegal racers in all manner of supercharged vehicles.
I didn't go in expecting a lot, but even so, this left me disappointed. Some of the lengths of time between an action scene are too long, some of the scenes aren't action-packed enough, some of the scenes going for comedy didn't work - a lot of Cudi's - and to a lesser extent the stupid stripping scene. There are aspects that are extremely farfetched - Cudi getting all of those aircrafts somehow, Julia getting a laptop with wireless connection in a public hospital in the states, (really?), Benny asking for and receiving an iPad while behind bars.... just ridiculous! The cars are nice, some of the scenery superb, and dramatic moments okay, but overall the characters are very cliched as is much of the plot.
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