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By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 03 Jan 2009

The story is predictably pedestrian, the conflict laughable and the dialogue too lifeless to be laughable, but closer to that than convincing…

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By John J. Puccio (1,217) for Movie Metropolis (1,779) on 26 Dec 2008

If you liked Top Gun, you stand a good chance of liking Days of Thunder…

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By Ian Nathan (392) for Empire (3,446) on 10 Jun 2008

Every motion, from the clamour of the racetrack to the sparring of teacher and pupil, has been worked out for audience satisfaction and grants…

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By Variety Staff (1,156) for Variety (12,700) on 06 May 2008

Days of Thunder zigzags between exploiting Cruise's likable grin and charming vulnerability and portraying him as an emotional loser…

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By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 06 May 2008

In 1990 the people who brought you Top Gun -- Tom Cruise, director Tony Scott, and producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer -- figured out…

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By Bill Clark (530) for FromTheBalcony (528) on 09 Jan 2006

Completely preposterous (I had no clue that Nascar allowed essentially bumper car antics), but nevertheless entertaining…

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By Julie Salamon (50) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 22 Mar 2004

This expensive genre film about stock car racing has many of the elements that made the same team's Top Gun a blockbuster, but the producers…

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By Fred Topel (1,193) for About.com (1,470) on 10 Aug 2003

Fun racing movie. Cruise in top melodramatic form with Duvall as an anchor…

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By Janet Maslin (949) for New York Times (5,786) on 19 May 2003

It's one thing to market a film solely on the strength of its star. It's quite another to go ahead and make the film that way…

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By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 16 Mar 2003

The plot is like a comfortable old pair of blue jeans. It may not be very challenging, but you can feel right at home with it…

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By Jay Scott (240) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 09 Nov 2002

Screenwriter Robert Towne has certainly not challenged his gifts -- the script is loaded with stock cars and stock characters -- but he does…

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By Hal Hinson (447) for Washington Post (9,851) on 13 Jun 2001

If Top Gun was a stylish bimbo of a movie, all cleavage, white teeth and aerodynamic flash, then Days of Thunder is its paradoxical twin --…

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