Review of Days of Thunder (1990) by Erim. — 06 Jun 2007

If you're a NASCAR fan it may just be the best movie you've ever seen.

This review of Days of Thunder (1990) was written by Erim. on 06 Jun 2007.

Days of Thunder has generally received mixed reviews.

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

More Reviews of Days of Thunder

Review of Days of Thunder (1990)

By Mg R (6) on 29 Aug 2016

Days of Thunder is an attempt to retheme Top Gun into a movie about car racing…

Read Review

Review of Days of Thunder (1990)

By John R (2,501) on 15 Apr 2017

150814: Not sure if I have ever liked this film. As a NASCAR fan, I find the driving scenes unrealistic, though a bit fun…

Read Review

Review of Days of Thunder (1990)

By Jamie C (1,664) on 25 Feb 2016

Top Gun with stock-cars instead of fighter jets, So many similarities that its hard to really take seriously, Apart from some ok racing scenes…

Read Review

Review of Days of Thunder (1990)

By Tatsuhito K (750) on 23 Feb 2015

Very good movie :) :) :) :) 2-24-2015 AT 1:35 AM ON TUESDAY night…

Read Review

Review of Days of Thunder (1990)

By Greg G (298) on 17 Sep 2014

I don't like NASCAR so this movie never really did anything for me. I love Kidman. Hate Cruise…

Read Review

Review of Days of Thunder (1990)

By Candice Russell (77) for South Florida Sun-Sentinel (746) on 19 May 2014

Days of Thunder lives up to its title in one respect. It`s big-time noisy. It`s also as empty as the stands at the Daytona 500 an hour after the race…

Read Review

Review of Days of Thunder (1990)

By David W (2,010) on 20 Jan 2017

Like a boring version of Talladega Nights(heck, even John C. Reilly is in this) I just could not get engaged in this at all…

Read Review

Review of Days of Thunder (1990)

By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 20 Jan 2017

And Cruise is so efficiently packaged in this product that he plays the same role as a saint in a Mexican village's holy day procession: It's…

Read Review

Review of Days of Thunder (1990)

By Jonny P (816) on 29 Aug 2016

Days of Thunder is an attempt to retheme Top Gun into a movie about car racing…

Read Review

Review of Days of Thunder (1990)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 19 May 2014

Days of Thunder wants to be an action drama, but it's really just a star vehicle of the most rudimentary sort, with nothing to offer Cruise…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

Reviews of Similar Movies

Review of The Mask of Zorro (1998)

By Jeffrey K (264) on 22 Dec 2008

Kill me now, or please, hand me a mask without eye holes to spare me from the complete waste of celluloid…

Read Review

Review of Jerry Maguire (1996)

By Drew O (67) on 17 Jun 2012

You had me at Hello, one of my favorite movie lines…

Read Review

Review of Shanghai Knights (2003)

By Spadenx (175) on 02 Jan 2012

It was ok but really it was just so stupid that it was likeable. The acting was poor and the action was good (for the most part)…

Read Review

Review of Nacho Libre (2006)

By Roe (4) on 25 Oct 2006

This film has no redeeming qualities at all. Zero isn't low enough…

Read Review

Review of The Punisher (2004)

By Desson Thomson (1,673) for Washington Post (9,851) on 05 May 2005

Don't hold your breath waiting for The Punisher to be original, not for one second of its torturous two hours…

Read Review

Review of Le Mans (1971)

By Megan L (165) on 27 Feb 2007

I saw it purely for Steve- it got really boring after awhile, tho, just watching shot after shot of cars going around a track…

Read Review

Review of The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

By Andrey B (847) on 12 Feb 2017

It's not hard to imagine the sickly director and producers of the flick, licking their lips with psychopathic delight as they use every trope,…

Read Review

Review of Kiss of Death (1995)

By Stephen L (620) on 22 Apr 2015

There's good over the top Cage then there is this slop,add in thinking this is the star vehicle Caruso left NYPD Blue for and this bomb is lit…

Read Review

Review of Just Cause (1995)

By Richard Schickel (546) for Time (1,811) on 14 Feb 1998

What must be said is that the new movie is simply awful: poorly structured, vulgarly written, insipidly directed, monotonously performed…

Read Review

Review of Angel Eyes (2001)

By Vinidornellas (38) on 29 May 2023

JLo is an arrogant and deplorable woman who doesn't know what quality and talent is. His works are hideous and dark…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Bullet Train

2022

66%170 Reviews

A Quiet Place

2018

76%1,685 Reviews

Fifty Shades of Grey

2015

43%1,173 Reviews

Split

2017

71%1,218 Reviews

The Platform

2019

70%94 Reviews

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

2017

69%660 Reviews

Hillbilly Elegy

2020

61%141 Reviews

The Invitation

2022

47%33 Reviews

Babylon

2022

68%144 Reviews

John Wick: Chapter 4

2023

78%170 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

Days of Thunder

1990

60%494 Reviews

Starsky & Hutch

2004

61%663 Reviews

Pain & Gain

2013

56%835 Reviews

Gloria

1980

69%43 Reviews

My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks

2014

75%72 Reviews

Brute Force

1947

79%91 Reviews

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

2012

55%665 Reviews

Ray

2004

79%711 Reviews

Balls of Fury

2007

45%562 Reviews

Sweet and Lowdown

1999

73%292 Reviews