YOU CAN’T STOP THE THUNDER.
Young racer Cole Trickle (Tom Cruise) wants to win the Indianapolis 500 and enlists the help of retired crew chief and car builder Harry Hogge (Robert Duvall). The team behind Top Gun (1986) returned for a similar adventure and scored another hit with audiences. The racing scenes are thunderingly forceful, boosted by terrific sound design and Hans Zimmer’s music score. Duvall is the stand-out in the cast and it’s fun watching Cruise and Nicole Kidman in their first movie together… but because of a thin story and stereotypical characters the emotions simply aren’t there.
1990-U.S. 108 min. Color. Widescreen. Produced by Don Simpson, Jerry Bruckheimer. Directed by Tony Scott. Screenplay: Robert Towne. Music: Hans Zimmer. Song: ”Show Me Heaven” (performed by Maria McKee). Cast: Tom Cruise (Cole Trickle), Robert Duvall (Harry Hogge), Randy Quaid (Tim Daland), Nicole Kidman (Claire Lewicki), Michael Rooker, John C. Reilly… Cary Elwes, Fred Dalton Thompson.
Trivia: Several real-life stock-car and NASCAR drivers appear as themselves.
