I'll take a timeout here to compliment Macfayden on giving a truly amazing, off-the-wall performance. There are four billionaires who waste their time and money gambling on drag races- Eddie Griffin, ANIMAL HOUSE's Tim Matheson, EQUILIBRIUM's Angus Macfayden and some Asian guy. Holy crap, somebody got paid money to write that. People who take risks and never play it safe." And then there are cars that get you from Point A to Point B really fast! And fast cars cost big money and with millions of dollars at stake, there are people who'll do anything to win. Here's the actual opening narration to this movie: "There are cars that get you from Point A to Point B. The script and dialogue operate at this same level of effort. Oh, did I say "car?" I meant " PLANE." She tells Griffin to "Pull the plane over now!" and they actually land their private aircraft on a busy highway so she can get out. My favorite example has to be when Eddie Griffin gets in a fight with one of his girlfriends and she demands that they pull the car over so she can get out. The film itself is a near-unwatchable cash-in on the FAST AND FURIOUS movies with a script that I would call lazy if it weren't actively trying so hard to be terrible. Though REDLINE is entirely Daniel Sadek's mess, that's not to say the other creatives he hired are completely blameless. It's almost like Orson Welles forcing his wife to be an opera star in CITIZEN KANE, except Sadek was doing this in real life.Įven Daniel Sadek's fiancé eventually saw the light. He wants so badly for her to come off as a cool, sexy driver, but the only role Bjorlin is capable of selling is that of "lousy actress." The film also blatantly tries to show off her singing skills, repeatedly shoehorning in random musical performances featuring her band Moving Violation and their hit song "You Turbocharge Me." It's all truly embarrassing for everyone involved. (And instead of dressing up a dummy car for stunts, Sadek gave the production his own $400,000 Porsche Carrera GT to destroy in an on-screen crash.) The producer's other promotional tool-former fiancé Nadia Bjorlin-doesn't fare much better.
#SONG THE GIRL SINGS IN REDLINE THE MOVIE DRIVER#
His cars may look cool and expensive, but the racing scenes in REDLINE are a repetitive, hyperkinetic mess, full of eye-rolling ideas like a car going so fast it essentially takes flight, or an expert driver ignoring the concept of depth perception and wearing a nightvision goggle over one eye while going 220 MPH. That's all money wasted because neither of Sadek's prized possessions comes off particularly well. It's not difficult to spot the parts where the movie's FX budget ran out of money. And he was willing to put down $30 million of his (your) own money to do it. All he wanted was a cool flick to show off both his exotic car collection and his talent-challenged soap opera star fiancé. The Good News: It totally paid for this movie!įor Sadek, REDLINE was the ultimate vanity project. The Bad News: This practice earned him a spot as one of the Top 100 people personally responsible for the 2008 U.S. In the mid 2000s, Sadek's business, Quick Loan Funding (also the name of his production company), gave out billions in subprime mortgages-high-interest loans to people with low credit scores who obviously could not afford it-and sold them to major banks across the country. The disaster of REDLINE falls squarely on one person and it's not the writer, director, or any of the actors. economy.Įddie Griffin was always happy to meet another member of the UNDERCOVER BROTHER Fan Club. REDLINE was seriously financed by dubious subprime mortgage loans that ruined people's lives and crippled the U.S. Sometimes fans of a certain film dismiss criticism by saying, "Whatever, the movie's not hurting anyone." That might technically be true in most cases, but not here. Stars: Nadia Bjorlin, Eddie Griffin, Angus MacfaydenĪ female driver becomes an unwitting pawn in the world of high-stakes racing and gambling. Can’t stop thinking about how great FURIOUS 7 was? Cleanse your palate with this literal car wreck… Redline (2007)