Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

HotToastyRag Paul Newman struck gold with this one: he teams up again on screen with his wife Joanne Woodward, and he gets to make a movie about a real-life passion, racecars! Winning is basically like any other sports movie. A talented man becomes too consumed by the competition, and his relationship with his wife/girlfriend/children strains as a result. In this movie, it's racecar driving, so if you like cars, don't miss this one. If you're bored to tears by loud cars driving around in a continuous circle, try another Paul Newman sports movie, like Slap Shot.Off-screen spouses argue and try to make the audience fear for a will-they-or-won't-they conflict, but it's not really convincing. There's so much love between them it seems highly unlikely they won't reconcile by the end of the movie. And as for a love triangle, why would anyone consider leaving Paul Newman?

butchfilms I am a big fan of Paul Newman but this must be one of his lowest films, even though he is OK at it. I think this movie deserves 5.5 stars.One of the biggest problems is that it last 120 minutes, it should have lasted 20 minutes less. I think the plot was good but not the way it was developed.What I liked the most was the final scene between Paul and Joanne, this scene deserved to be in a much better movie. The race scenes are good.Frank Capua is a car racer who gets married with Elora who has a 16 years old son who gets along with him, but there will be serious problems in the couple when he puts his career before her...........I recommend watching it if it's on TV and you like old race cars movies or if you are a Paul Newman's die hard fan

muffy_diver This movie was made about 10 years after Newman became famous. As far as I can see it was just to waste time dreaming about car racing, I have no problem with that, but the story line was limp. Guess he just needed some tax write-offs.The race scenes are probably good, but having "what-his-name" as the bad guy, did not work. The love scenes were a waste of time. I guess as a period piece and a nod to Newman it has a niche in history, but its really not a very good flic.The nascar crowd undoubtedly adore it but again , its limp. Newman looks way older than his present age, which is almost 40 years ago.Try as I might, I cannot say much good. Joanne Woodward, looks great as usual,but looks alone do not make a movie worth watching.

Jonathan Doron The feeling I had during the movie is: this could have been better if it was totally different: More relations between characters and less cars. And even when there is a race, we get weird 60's shots of people not even watching the race. How about more about the rivalry between Newman and Wagner. What does Joanne do- is she a housewife, raising by herself a child since he was three? Richard Thomas (Charlie) and Newman should have had more scenes before Charlie is sad of the breakup; I would have been sad losing a father like Newman, but we should see why Charlie is sad. Newman puts as much character to Frank as the script allows. Too long, not too predictable (not that there are any big surprises, other than the credits coming a bit early in the last scene). Paul and Joanne are great together, see Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990).