Review of Born to Race

This is the type of film that you would watch it a drive-in after you take the beer out of the trunk, and a few people that you smuggled in so they wouldn't have to pay. It's a D grade action film about a sport that people don't go to see in the movies. They go to see it live, and even then, it's a select type of audience. Joseph Bottoms, Marc Singer, Dirk Blocker and even George Kennedy (basically playing the same character that he played in the "Airport" and "Naked Gun" movies star along with Marla Heasley in this good old dude flick that focuses on chases and shady characters over character development and plot. It involves a big race for big money and a kidnapping, padded out with some really dumb attempts at comedy where the leading characters just aren't interesting or smart enough to warrant interest in them, and outlandishly smarmy villains who are just too repulsive to want to look at. I couldn't find anything appealing about this movie at all. So if you want to see a movie where you sit for 90 minutes with your mouth agaape over how bad it is, this is it.