Days of Thunder

"An entertaining example of what we might as well call the Tom Cruise Picture..."

"Mr. Cruise plays a driver named Cole Trickle, whose name is the first of many problems with the screenplay..."

"The shallowness of Days of Thunder is extraordinary even by genre standards."

"Muscular, loud and ravishingly handsome, the movie is solidly in the same family as (Top Gun)..."

"That clanking noise... comes from Robert Towne’s tinny story and its malnourished characters."

"It is a film so thought out, so measured in its shallowness, that it is totally incapable of surprising anyone."

"To say Days of Thunder is about anything more than ego tripping gives Scott and screenwriter Robert Towne too much credit."

"The original script must have been truly atrocious if Towne's contributions can be considered an improvement."

"The film, though sleek and easy to sit through, replaces genuine dramatic involvement with a superficial, rock & roll empathy..."

"Duvall not only grounds his character in reality; he almost succeeds in grounding the whole picture in it as well."