It's disappointing but expected nowadays that this middle-quality film would get a 92 RT rating. With the exception perhaps of Matt Damon's character, every role is predictable and flat. It's one of those films that's seemingly suspenseful but is mildly boring, at least after a while of it. I never could understand the appeal of car crash scenes that viewers have seen a thousand times before. The rivalries -- between the US and Italy, the corporate goons and the free spirits, the free spirits and the race officials -- are written in the ham-handed, "we have no respect for the audience so we'll shove it down their throats" way you'd expect. Ninety minutes might have worked but it just gets tiresome.