Torque (film)

Torque
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Joseph Kahn
Produced by	Brad Luff Neal H. Moritz
Written by	Matt Johnson
Screenplay by	Matthew Johnson
Story by	Matt Johnson
Based on	The Fast and the Furious by Gary Scott Thompson
Starring	Martin Henderson Ice Cube Monet Mazur Adam Scott Matt Schulze Jaime Pressly Jay Hernandez
Music by	Trevor Rabin
Cinematography	Peter Levy
Edited by	David Blackburn Howard E. Smith
Production company	Warner Bros. Village Roadshow Original Film
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	January 16, 2004 (2004-01-16) (United States) March 5, 2004 (2004-03-05) (United Kingdom)
Running time	84 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$40 million
Box office	$46,546,197

Torque is a 2004 American racing action film directed by Joseph Kahn, in his feature film directing debut, edited by David Blackburn, written by Matt Johnson and produced by Neal H. Moritz, who is known for producing The Fast and the Furious film series. The film stars Adam Scott, Martin Henderson, Ice Cube, Monet Mazur, Jaime Pressly, Will Yun Lee, Jay Hernandez, Max Beesley, Fredro Starr and Christina Milian. The film tells the story of large groups of highly skilled motor racers whose participating in underground motorcycle races. The film was mainly inspired by The Fast and the Furious.

Torque was theatrically released on January 16, 2004 in the United States and on March 5, 2004 in UK. Upon its release, the film was a massive commercial failure with grossing $46 million worldwide against production budget of only $40 million. In addition to being a commercial failure, the film received generally poor reviews from film critics who criticized the unessecary humor, the acting performances, as well as the writing, storyline and direction and also some critics commented the film meant to be an MTV film but some highly praised the action sequences. Also, it is considered to be one of the worst films ever made in cinema history and it was nominated for several Taurus Awards for its stunts.