As an action-packed sports drama, it often features racing sequences that are, in general, low-octane and wear out like a tire on the track. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Jul 19, 2025

Some members of the audience I attended for Days of Thunder snickered at the mythologizing of the young actor on the screen. Tom Cruise would be wise to pay heed to such derision.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/4 | May 9, 2023

There is some interest to be mined from Days of Thunder as an auteur piece--the auteur being Cruise, not Scott.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 3, 2022

A vanity piece for Tom Cruise, who makes sure that he looks even prettier than co-star Nicole Kidman.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 23, 2020

The most awesome technical feat of Days of Thunder's massive gadgetry is Cruise in close-up.

Full Review | May 20, 2020

For race car enthusiasts, Days of Thunder is a treat with great action scenes.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 18, 2020

The only historically noteworthy thing about this big, dumb testosterone fantasy is the first screen teaming of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.

Full Review | Oct 24, 2018

[It] was not so much about innovation and originality as it was about recycling the same themes about the glories of victory and the triumph of professionalism, which Days of Thunder produces in droves, but without any real impact.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 24, 2018

The most daring thing about his cat-and-mouse game with Kidman is how erotic Noyce makes it.

Full Review | Oct 24, 2018

A Formula One stock car racing flick that's formulaic and cliche-ridden.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Sep 1, 2017

'90s race-car blockbuster has sexism, profanity.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 24, 2016

Dispensing with all notions that Days of Thunder is a critical work of any sort reveals its hollow and misogynistic underpinnings.

Full Review | Jun 25, 2015

Like the previous Simpson-Bruckheimer pictures, it's designed to give audiences an overdose of the thrill of victory; it wants us to jump out of our seats, pumping our fists in the air and roaring for the hero to pulverize his opponents.

Full Review | May 20, 2014

This is the kind of monstrously overgrown commercial movie that depends entirely on the microscopic pleasures of having one`s most routine expectations fulfilled.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 20, 2014

Whoosh!! Days of Thunder just streaked in, fast as a race-car paint job and about as flat.

Full Review | May 20, 2014

Not only does Days of Thunder disappoint on the basic narrative level, it is also a peculiarly thrill-less action movie. Shot from the driver's point of view, the race sequences lose their novelty as swiftly as a video game.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 20, 2014

Days of Thunder does accomplish the job it sets out to do. It's sometimes funny, sometimes exciting and never too boring or offensive. In a disappointing movie season -- as this one has started out to be -- that can seem like quite an accomplishment.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 20, 2014

Good writing by Robert Towne and a host of strong supporting performances complement the on-the-track visuals of director Tony Scott in giving us a sense of the leap of faith that is required by drivers at this level.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2014

The original script must have been truly atrocious if Towne's contributions can be considered an improvement.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 20, 2014

The nerve of these people, recycling that story. No, the shrewdness of these people.

Full Review | May 20, 2014