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| As Torque opens, we learn that biker Cary Ford (Martin Henderson) skipped town six months before without any explanation, leaving behind bewildered friends and a heartbroken girlfriend, Shane (Monet Mazur), who owns a local bike shop. "Heard you were in Indochina," people ask when they see Ford, who came back to "make things right." | Henry devises a plan to get the goods: He brutally kills a rival gang leader's younger brother and frames Ford for the murder, then promises an exchange--he'll get Ford off the hook if Ford tells him where the bikes are. This doesn't fly with our protagonist, who sees the drug-spiked bikes as his only insurance against Henry killing him outright. Now Ford has to prove his innocence while staying a step ahead of the gangs--and the cops--who are hot on his trail. | When she finally utters a line (something like, "You messed with the wrong chick") during a wheelie showdown with Shane, we at least know she means it. In contrast, heroes Mazur and Henderson are positively bland. Mazur's portrayal of Shane is a straight-up, tough-but-pretty girl who skids into one scene after another on her crotch rocket asking, "Need a ride?" But the cast's biggest obstacle--besides, again, the awful dialogue--is the absurd leather getups they're forced to wear. |
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This ridiculous film fails to answer glaring questions, such as why Ford split in the first place and why he stashed the bikes for six months. But the nonsensical storyline is accompanied by even lamer dialogue: The only thing worse than the constant references to Indochina (does anyone still use that term?) is Ford's correction that he was actually in Thailand. Acting If anything positive can be said about Torque it's that the bad guys in the cast manage to go out of their way to overdo their characters, |  Wear these to cocktail parties! |
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delivering the memorably bad dialogue with the utmost passion and conviction. As rival gang leader Trey, Ice Cube never laughs or cracks a smile; he snarls his way through the entire film. But the best performance in terms of facial expressions has to be Jaime Pressly's China (no, not Indochina)--Henry's woman. China doesn't say a word until halfway through the film, but Pressly maximizes her character's screen presence by making her sadistically raunchy: She seductively licks her pierced vixen-red lips every time violence breaks out, be it a fight or, better yet, a murder. |
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Before his disappearing act, Ford hid away a collection of motorcycles left in Shane's shop that belong to Henry (Matt Schulze), a drug dealer and leader of the Hellions biker gang, who wants his merchandise back--not surprising since he had stashed about $1 million worth of crystal meth in the gas tanks. |
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