The worst car movie ever made
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There are bad movies, and then there’s Redline: the 2007 street racing film made by a subprime mortgage lender that scored a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, left a trail of smashed supercars in its wake, and helped kick off a worldwide financial crisis.
In the mid-2000s, former car salesman Daniel Sadek was very rich from handing out mortgages to people with bad credit through his company Quick Loan Funding. But Sadek always dreamed of being a Hollywood big shot. Taking a page from Fast & Furious (and the franchise’s original name), he spent $25M to make a high-octane action movie starring his girlfriend and featuring his extensive collection of supercars.
The cars were a mid-aughts dream garage: the Ferrari Enzo, Saleen S7, Mercedes SLR McLaren, Porsche Carrera GT, Lamborghini Diablo, and more. Actors included Nadia Bjorlin, Tim Matheson, and Eddie Griffin, which was a fine enough cast for the time. And the plot, well, the less said about it, the better.
It could’ve worked—it was a simpler time, after all. But despite decent ingredients, it turned into a total disaster. Production was way over budget. A real Porsche Carrera GT went flying off a cliff. Critics and audiences HATED it. And Eddie Griffin managed to crash the Enzo into a concrete barrier at a promotional appearance at Irwindale Speedway, creating one of the first big viral videos of the era.
About that financial crisis… Redline premiered just a few months before the subprime mortgage crisis exploded, and having poured so much of his own money into the movie, Sadek and his company were one of the first dominos to fall as the global economy went over a cliff like that Carrera GT. Redline didn’t cause the Great Recession—but it certainly didn’t help.
And while its legacy as one of the worst movies ever made is undeniable, there’s one thing it has going for it—almost 20 years later, it’s a pretty amazing time capsule showing the excess, greed, and yes, the dream cars of pre-recession America. Still don’t recommend watching the whole thing.
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In the mid-2000s, former car salesman Daniel Sadek was very rich from handing out mortgages to people with bad credit through his company Quick Loan Funding. But Sadek always dreamed of being a Hollywood big shot. Taking a page from Fast & Furious (and the franchise’s original name), he spent $25M to make a high-octane action movie starring his girlfriend and featuring his extensive collection of supercars.
The cars were a mid-aughts dream garage: the Ferrari Enzo, Saleen S7, Mercedes SLR McLaren, Porsche Carrera GT, Lamborghini Diablo, and more. Actors included Nadia Bjorlin, Tim Matheson, and Eddie Griffin, which was a fine enough cast for the time. And the plot, well, the less said about it, the better.
It could’ve worked—it was a simpler time, after all. But despite decent ingredients, it turned into a total disaster. Production was way over budget. A real Porsche Carrera GT went flying off a cliff. Critics and audiences HATED it. And Eddie Griffin managed to crash the Enzo into a concrete barrier at a promotional appearance at Irwindale Speedway, creating one of the first big viral videos of the era.
About that financial crisis… Redline premiered just a few months before the subprime mortgage crisis exploded, and having poured so much of his own money into the movie, Sadek and his company were one of the first dominos to fall as the global economy went over a cliff like that Carrera GT. Redline didn’t cause the Great Recession—but it certainly didn’t help.
And while its legacy as one of the worst movies ever made is undeniable, there’s one thing it has going for it—almost 20 years later, it’s a pretty amazing time capsule showing the excess, greed, and yes, the dream cars of pre-recession America. Still don’t recommend watching the whole thing.
Produced by → instagram.com/joeyrassool
Hosted by → instagram.com/kylecheromcha
Previous episode → youtube.com/watch?v=rtqoZMUhO2...
The Drive is the chronicle of car culture. We write stories you actually want to read. → thedrive.com
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