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Torque (film)

Torque
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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
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.


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