Review of Fast Company (1953) by R.john X — 08 Dec 2009
A Cronenberg film that's not about violations/transformations of the body? What? About drag racing? Huh? For realz. As a decidedly B-movie, this is actually pretty decent. Definitely some effort put into the camera work, the story is throwaway, but there's some pretty neat footage of the racing and such. I guess if you're into fast cars driving REALLY fast in a straight line for very short distances...
Also has one of the most hilarious exploding endings EVER. I actually had to re-wind it twice and go frame-by-frame to understand what happened. What happened is, no joke, the racer guy chases after the evil executive (who is taking off in an airplane) with his race car, and rams into the plane, causing it to fly into the air, then back down out of the air into the company's racing trailer which EXPLODES!
The cast is hilarious. You have a metric plethora of hicks and rednecks. Even the "babes" in the movie are, uh, shall we say, of a decidedly B-movie quality. And one of the characters is named Meatball. And he actually looks not too dissimilar to Meatloaf, perhaps they are related? This movie also has the cheesiest motor-oil-innuendo-leading-to-a-threesome-with-the-two-hitchiking-shortshorts-montanagirls in a freaking redneck racing trailer that one could ever imagine.
This movie is what it is, and nothing more.
This review of Fast Company (1953) was written by R.john X on 08 Dec 2009.
Fast Company has generally received mixed reviews.
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