By Nick Nitkowski

Who doesn’t love a good underdog story? A person who comes from nothing and who wants something more for themselves so they prove their worth by going through toughest of obstacles and achieving victory. It’s inspiring and makes one inspired enough to feel as though they can do the same one day. Unfortunately, a lot of these underdog stories have become very formulaic to the point of feeling disingenuous. It’s almost become a pattern that you can predict before you even sit down in your seat to watch it unfold. Now we have another underdog story involving motorcycle racing! The only question is will this one be unique and stand on its own or will it fall victim to the dreaded formulaic checklist?

Unfortunately, this one does fall victim to the formulaic checklist. A down-on-his-luck street racer reconnects with his estranged father who once fell from grace in the industry and now coaches his son to become a better motorcycle racer. Throw in a love interest subplot and you have “One Fast Move” in a nutshell. We’ve seen movies like this a hundred times over. What separates them from obscurity is the execution of the story with high-octane racing scenes with sounds that get the blood pumping and the excitement rushing as well as developing characters that you want to root for. 

This movie just felt like I was watching them go down the checklist with each scene. The characters were very uninteresting and their dialogue even less interesting. I was barely engaged with anything that was going on because the movie just lacked anything that would be considered unique or different. There was absolutely nothing that separates this movie from other racing films that are way better executed and more deserving of one’s time. 

Even the racing scenes, the pinnacle driving force that people would invest in, were very lackluster. They lacked excitement and they were very brief. They were also badly edited. I remember one portion of a race where the lead actor was way ahead of the other racers in one shot, they briefly cut to the spectators, and then suddenly he’s neck and neck with the competition. Which left me as an audience member questioning how the heck they caught up to him so quickly. The only interesting racing segment of the film was the finale. That was the only moment where I felt the most engaged for the entire movie. But just like the others, it fell short, and once the race was over, so too was the film itself.

Overall, this was a very forgettable experience of a film. There is a very good reason as to why this movie is going straight to streaming on Amazon Prime instead of having a theatrical run. I’m sure Amazon will try to promote it as a new film to stream exclusively on their platform, but I can assure you that it is not worth your time. I am positive that I will forget ever having seen this movie at all as time goes on. There are so many better alternative racing movies than this one. Whatever move this film was trying to make certainly wasn’t fast enough nor did it have what it takes to win.

1.5/5 stars