So it is again this year with the opening of Joseph Kahn's TORQUE, a movie which plays like a sequel to last January's BIKER BOYZ, which had a completely different cast and crew but the same cheesy setup. TORQUE stars Martin Henderson and Ice Cube in two embarrassingly bad performances. Since BIKER BOYZ was a rip off of another awful film, THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS, TORQUE is like a third generation copy of a bad videotape.

This brain dead picture is stuffed with laughably lame insults ("I didn't come here to watch you pet your dog, primate!" and "Let's see if this guy fights as bad as he rides!") and mindless banter ("You're going to need us," says one. "Yes I am," replies another.)

The movie features fast bikes, fast cars, fast driving, fast women and fast editing -- in short, it's fast. Think 3 FAST 3 FURIOUS. With overcooked action and colors and with wet T-shirts, the movie offers everything except class and something akin to a plot. There is some story about drugs and murder, but it is just a ruse to stitch the action together.

Only if the film had been juiced up and released as an R-rated guilty pleasure would it have had any chance of being the least bit enjoyable. But this pseudo-raunchy PG-13 version is just one big waste of time.

TORQUE runs 1:21. It is rated PG-13 for "violence, sexuality, language and drug references" and would be acceptable for kids around 12 and up.