Supercross: O Filme

To the critic who exited the theater halfway through the movie, "You really missed it."

"Supercross, The Movie" racing photography at the Las Vegas Chammpionship event is the best sporting cinematography of any motion picture that I have ever seen. Super vivid and intense plastic.

Is there any better quality sports film production than later stages of "Supercross, The Movie" racing footage? Extreme close-ups, sudden slow-mo, chrome, other digital effects, aerial jumps and tight action shots are framed with excellent form detail and clarity.

The Director made some mistakes. He could have used Hollywood draw like Aaron Carter, and Sophia Bush for more than only quick supporting shots. He could have included a lot more Supercross racers, and expanded on character development. He could have made more of a total movie, and it would have been interesting for other racers to have some lines.

The camera work in the beginning of "Supercross, The Movie" is inconsistent at best. The digital sound is consistently excellent.

I liked the audio effects during the event races. The exaggerated sound is in keeping with the New York Film School style and look of the better half of the film. I even liked the framing cut aways. Not to many film makers have the courage to do something that far out of the generic mainstream.

Granted, several of the dramatic (or lack there of) scenes needed to be re-done. It is like they began the project with a total lack of organization, and filmed only one take.

Even so, the "SoCal" "seventies lifestyle" approach of what little character development there is found its mark. The storyline is fine, it is just that there is such a lack of fine tuning.

The good parts of the film were so extra over the top that they made the beginning more than survivable.

I hope the next time around they keep the excellent sight and sound quality of the final racing events, and put together better Directorship of the back-in-time lifestyle dramatic intention

I actually left about halfway through this movie. Because neither the plot and relationships, nor the racing footage, were enough to hold my interest.

When I think about it, I guess the natural movies for comparison might be The Lords of Dogtown, and The Fast and Furious, and whatever that racing movie was that was the contemporary of Fast & Furious, that starred Sly Stallone. All three were far better movies. All three featured lots of racing action and racetrack energy and the like. And all three included some engaging off-track personal dynamics for the racers.

This movie seemed VERY short on plain old race footage and racetrack footage, and seemed to concentrate more on off-track personal relationships. Yet none of these relationships seemed to me to really appeal. "Tight but competitive" is the opening formula: but almost all I saw and heard was competition with little sense of connection. Competition without that connection is frankly very, very unappealing to my taste. I wanted to like these folks, but just couldn't.

Bummer ...

I think that this movie is a good one for motor cross fans and kids. It's something that's not worth paying 10 dollars for at the movies, but it is enjoyable if you are into XXX sports. I am into it and I thought the stunts were pretty cool, but there was no real plot to it. There was but it wasn't like fast and the furious where there's mystery and suspense. However, if you want to see steve howey in a different light than definitely see it. He was great, and I think he has a lot of potential as an actor. He was completely different than his van character on Reba. He was serious about what he was doing and you can tell that he loved what he was doing. I hope to see more of him in other movies because he's really talented. Overall I give it a 3 out of 10 stars.

Out of all the reviews I've read, a ton of people HATED Supercross so I guess I'm 1 of the very few who actually enjoyed it.I think it was a pretty good movie.I wouldn't watch it again anytime soon but I could see myself watching it again in another couple years.The story has been done a million times before but this time the story is set in the world of motorcross.It has enough going for it that it should keep you entertained for 1 hour & 20 minutes & if you're not entertained, the little 1's will most definitely be, if you have little 1's.I don't understand why it got so much hate.It's not going to win any awards but in my opinion, it was a pretty decent movie.To each their own, you like what you like & hate what you hate.If somebody asked if Supercross was worth watching, I'd have to say yes, I'd give it a shot.I don't know if you'd like it but I most definitely did

This movie was fun. I feel bad for the hardcore Supercross fans though, since a lot of the details on the bikes were really sloppily done. That is the directors or editors part. Do some research before you put that in the movie. Other than that, some have really spoken up about how bad the acting was in this movie. What? Its not Saving Private Ryan, its a sports movie driven mainly by teens and twenty somethings. The two actors Mike Vogel and Steve Howey do a good job playing brothers trying to survive in the sport of supercross. There love interest are equally appealing. It is a fun movie a couple of things left you scratching your head like what happened to the Carlyles father? I will chalk it up to again, bad editing. This movie is on par with its predecessor Winners take all , an equally entertaining supercross flick. Fun if you are young and into the sport. Bad if you are an old man watching it with your young kids or real hardcore supercross fan.