Tom Cruise stars in this Tony Scott-directed actioner as Cole, a young hot-shot stock car driver whose rise is threatened...
Tom Cruise stars in this Tony Scott-directed actioner as Cole, a young hot-shot stock car driver whose rise is threatened by a dangerous rivalry until a beautiful doctor (Nicole Kidman) steps in.
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38 %66 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
60 %132,703 reviewsAudience score rating
"An entertaining example of what we might as well call the Tom Cruise Picture..."
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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert"Mr. Cruise plays a driver named Cole Trickle, whose name is the first of many problems with the screenplay..."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"The shallowness of Days of Thunder is extraordinary even by genre standards."
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TV Guide
TV Guide"Muscular, loud and ravishingly handsome, the movie is solidly in the same family as (Top Gun)..."
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post"That clanking noise... comes from Robert Towne’s tinny story and its malnourished characters."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"It is a film so thought out, so measured in its shallowness, that it is totally incapable of surprising anyone."
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Empire Magazine
Empire Magazine"To say Days of Thunder is about anything more than ego tripping gives Scott and screenwriter Robert Towne too much credit."
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Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine"The original script must have been truly atrocious if Towne's contributions can be considered an improvement."
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Seattle Times
Seattle Times"The film, though sleek and easy to sit through, replaces genuine dramatic involvement with a superficial, rock & roll empathy..."
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Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly"Duvall not only grounds his character in reality; he almost succeeds in grounding the whole picture in it as well."
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Time Magazine
Time MagazineDays of Thunder | Details
- Rating
- M, Ocassional coarse language
- Runtime
- 107
- Genre
- Action, Drama, Sport
- Country of origin
- USA
