Days of Thunder – Thursday 22nd May 2025

With Tom Cruise in publicity overdrive at the moment, I seem to have a strange, completely unrelated urge to watch his movies!

I’d never seen ‘Days of Thunder’, because frankly, it looked sh!t. I mean who, apart from Americans, even watched Nascar in the early 90s?

So anyway, I wasn’t missing anything. The film ain’t great.

Throughout most of the film, there’s no character development, and no stakes, other than the Team owner potentially losing money. Who cares?

Then, in the final third, they introduce some character development and some stakes, but it’s too little too late, and basically just echoes Top Gun, a vastly superior film in the same mould.

Not much more to say really.