This movie is just "Top Gun" on a race track. Instead of Naval fighter jets it's stock cars. The only real thematic different between the two movies is that Cruise's character Cole "The Man" Trickle's back story isn't freaky flushed out. Otherwise this time he's battling Wesley "the Man in Black" instead of the faceless foreign enemy in black.
For what it is it's not horrible. Grab a cheap 6-pack, put the wife to bed, as well your brain, and veg to some tires melting and very little story.
Review of Days of Thunder
