Worst of the Worst movie reviews - Redline (2007)

Every week I’ll be watching the worst rated movies on Rotten Tomatoes so you don’t have to. I’ll be doing one every week until the final issue where I’ll review the worst movie ever made (according to a random article I found). What are my qualifications you ask? I took Introduction to Media Studies in my first year and got a B average, so I think I know what I’m talking about. I’m going to watch each of these movies and decide whether it is rightfully on the worst movies of all-time list, based on my expert opinion.

Worst of the Worst movie reviews - Redline (2007)

This week I’ll be reviewing Redline (2007), not to be confused with Redline (2009). Two completely separate movies, with wildly different critical responses.  

Redline 2007 is an auto-racing movie, and it’s famously terrible. There was a huge scandal with the production being millions of dollars in debt. Cartoon Network sued them for not paying for their advertising and the cherry on top is that the movie was released on DVD by The Weinstein Company.  

 
It’s kind of everything you’d expect from a movie focussing on supercars, they’re in Las Vegas, there’s a street racing circle with lots of money pumped into it. The idea itself isn’t terrible, but the execution is just embarrassing. There’s a lot of things you’d expect from a movie that feels so aggressively American. There’s mention of an Iraq veteran turned mob affiliate, an elusive billionaire with a private jet and of course one hot girl who is actually really good at car stuff.  

 
I’m going to be honest and say this movie was actually pretty entertaining to watch, there were a lot of loud noises and dramatic scenes which kind of kept my attention. I couldn’t actually tell you how the movie started, or how it ended but I definitely remember the cool cars going broom broom.  

It’s not a unique idea, The Fast and Furious franchise had been in full swing since 2001, so they’d already made their mark as the go-to auto-racing movie. Attempting to bring in another story with essentially the same premise feels really stupid. It’s like if someone released a movie about talking boats in the height of the Cars movie release. It’s just not smart.  

 
Does it deserve to be on the worst movies list? Yes absolutely. It’s predictable and boring and goes on a little too long for what it is.