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List Price: $29.99 Our Price: $26.99 You Save: $3 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Full Screen • NTSC In Theaters : 1997 DVD Release : 19 September, 2000 |
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RPM description David Arquette's offbeat charm will likely never make him a leading man. That's part of the fun of RPM, a tongue-in-cheek Euro-American car-jacking adventure about an American techno wizard whose sideline is stealing vintage autos for fun and... well, mostly just for fun. When New York gets too hot for him he flies off to Europe, heists his way through the coolest vintage autos in the south of France, and then hires himself out to a corporate pirate who desires a tightly guarded experimental car that runs without gas. Famke Janssen slinks her way through the film as Arquette's sexy nemesis, who matches him car for car and races him to the prize, and Emmanuelle Seigner costars as one of Arquette's victims won over by his goofy allure. It's a cute, if silly, little picture that plays like a low-budget James Bond spoof: cool gadgets, sexy women, handsome sports cars, all set in the lovely countryside of southern France. Ian Sharp isn't much of an action director but he captures the breezy spirit of the wisecracking script (cowritten by Pulp Fiction's Roger Avary). Like Arquette, he doesn't take any of it seriously either, and it works for this amusing little lark of an action-comedy. --Sean Axmaker |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | For race car and collectible car voyeurs, in the youth segment |
| RPM is a film that, despite all its flaws, visibly was never intended
for any other niche audience, than race car voyeurs and the below 12 year old age bracket. Assuming this was RPM's original design, it suceeded very well in its objective. For all other audiences, despite the script's promised excitement, it comes up short in entertainment value as a rental or at the theatres. The biggest flaw is the selection of the leading actor, who, despite all his efforts, easy-going personality, articulate physical and verbal expression, is a poor match for a provokative, photogenic and spontaneous woman like Famke Janssen, sporting an image of a junior high school student. Arquette is also paired with the intriguing, young beauty Emmanuelle Seigner, and somehow this also doesn't seem entirely appropriate, although not as much. The leading actor's conduct seems in line with a 17 year old Peter Sellers, with nervous, amateur acting, lacking subtlety, clearly inexperienced, relying heavily on personal mannerisms, subjective tic's that professional actors don't intermix, or confuse with one another, the personal and the business. Perhaps to cover this up, after 2/3 of the movie is spent, the Director apparently suggested to the Arquette to light up a smoke on a regular basis towards the last 1/3 of the movie, in almost every scene. The script's dialog, seems not to flow naturally, and this sometimes results in all of the actors delivering a "wooden" performance or interaction. There is no question, that the filming of over 40 or 50 luxury and rare collection automobiles is fascinating, and innovative for those who are not mechanics or visitors of race tracks and museums. The action scenes involving these cars, is successfully done, and those are the high points of the film. As for the soundtrack, too often sewage-grade "rock" music was selected, meaning instruments apparently were handed to amateur musicians who had trouble coming up with anything minimally acceptable. This, when coupled with the leading actor's amateur acting, turns the audience's experience from bad to worse. What impoverished the film, (aside from the previously mentioned aspects), is the lack in the story's coherence, logic and free flow in terms of following it over 90 mins. Also, the special gizmo allowing the remote control of race cars from 2 km away seems totally implausible, and for that reason alone is annoying from the fantasy such a device exists. The fact that German and French actors were selected, is fine in itself, except for the difficulty in natural expression in English for those same actors. The European filming locations actually are welcomed, however, in the city and countryside action stunt scenes mainly. RPM could have redeemed itself, from the cool cars had there been humor, but the audience will find only 1 or 2 genuine moments for laughs in the entire work, as most of it misses the mark, or is clumsily done. The fact that there is a "narrative" from Arquette, speaking over the action is the final nail in RPM's coffin, considering the actor was already a liability. Overall, RPM as a project had significant potential, but the flaws already mentioned when added to its many "rough edges" doesn't meet the audience's standard, despite a high quality cinematography. |
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