Let's be clear. I'm not talking about the old anime from decades past, but instead the 2008 feature film directed by the Matrix-making Wachowski brothers
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It's about a family. I almost thought the movie screwed up when Racer X took off his mask. But at the end when they revealed how much Rex had given up to protect his family, the family he loved so much, I was crying manly tears.
The one flaw I found with the movie was, oddly enough, the racing. It was disjointed and strangely composed. The big Rally in the desert was fine and a grand shout-out to the cartoon (but it was almost impossible to tell the cars apart!) but all the races on tracks (and few enough of those!), there was no sense of....place. It was like a giant Hot Wheels set with no distinct start or finish line. The cars were just there, you couldn't really tell who was in the lead, how Speed was doing, no visual cues via what's around the track to know how close to the finish Speed was and how much of a maximum effort he had to make.
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The one flaw I found with the movie was, oddly enough, the racing. It was disjointed and strangely composed. The big Rally in the desert was fine and a grand shout-out to the cartoon (but it was almost impossible to tell the cars apart!) but all the races on tracks (and few enough of those!), there was no sense of....place. It was like a giant Hot Wheels set with no distinct start or finish line. The cars were just there, you couldn't really tell who was in the lead, how Speed was doing, no visual cues via what's around the track to know how close to the finish Speed was and how much of a maximum effort he had to make.
Does that make any sense?
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