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...you enjoy seeing cars go around and around a track. This was a decent C-grade novice production that I'm guessing Travolta did someone a favor in starring in. The director and both writers have little experience, and it shows in this film with flimsy writing and poor directing of the cast. The acting was decent considering, and it was great to see the lovely Shania Twain in her first full length feature film, and she did quite well. Travolta nailed it as did Toby Sebastian, and the rest of the cast were all convincing in their roles, although some of the redneck Alabama accents seemed out of place. The camera work was good, the films length and pacing decent, but the story lacked anything memorable. Not a bad film if you're into this type of racing in the Alabama backwoods of Talladega. For a novice C-grade film, it wasn't great nor bad, considering some of the bigger production films that have come out lately that were garbage. It's a well deserved 6/10 from me.

Rednecks complete with mobile home, fake accents, and 4-cylinder sound effects. Predictable, elementary, embarrassing for veteran actors, but ok for simpletons. Too much cheese and too fake. I watch real racers on Youtube with real sound from the cars, no hair plugs or Botox, and better stories for free. Barely made it through, but I made it.

I'm not surprised by this horrendous movie. It is tough to make a realistic racing movie, but the directors could have at least done their homework on how it all works. One scene that sticks out at the end is they are waving the checkered flag, yet saying 1 lap to go. John Travolta must have done this a favor because it is absolute trash. Don't waste your time.

If a movie doesnt draw me in by 20 minutes or so, it most likely won't. i gave this one till halfway point, which was enough for me. Travolta seems to be doing a string of pointless low standard movies, and michael madsen hasn't been in a decent one for years, that should have been an alarm bell. Thought i recognized shania twain , although i hadn't known she was in it prior. Scenes with her were lifeless to wooden, she's no lady gaga. all in all, a pointless movie, unrealistic, zero substance, uninteresting, lifeless scenes and acting...yawn give it a miss.

Take the plot of Days of Thunder then remove all the action and intriguing characters. Add some mediocre cinematography, direction, and editing and you have this waste of time. Travolta can act but what he is doing in such a film is a mystery. I hope his debt is now payed to whoever convinced him to participate in such a piece of... The rest of the cast is wooden and two dimensional as they whisper and growl through their lines. Don't waste your time.

When I saw the ratings and reviews I thought sureley it can't be that bad, so out to prove if only to myself it wasn't I rolled the tape. I didn't need to go far into this one to realise I was witnessing the hatching of a Turkey. Made for Television best sums up this drec of a movie, that's not saying it's a good MFT movie because it's not, but at least viewers won't feel the pain of shelling out ticket money. My attention was tranfixed (this is how bad it was) on Travoltas obvious hair piece, is it a hair piece or graft I wondered, does he need to water it and add fertilizer, does he take it off at night, why does he even bother which is ironic really because why even bother just about sums up my review on Trading Paint

It was a great family movie and your typical race car movie. I personally loved it.

This is far from an all time great film. That said, I enjoyed watching from start to finish. I'm a sucker for sports/competition movies. This one did not disappoint.

I actually hated this movie. Just so bad in every way possible. Travolta's wig was the icing on the cake. Realized there was still 30 minutes left and almost puked.

The interaction between father and son was so maudlin and sappy I thought I was watching a Hallmark Christmas movie. We all new they'd win the final race, they always do, but give us a story. Down and out, not enough to money to compete against the big boys, finds the money, wins the race, smiles all around. Like watching the movie Titanic, we all knew the ship sank, and we all knew they'd win. Kevin Dunn's "Stumpy" was the only character I even remotely cared about. But I watched it, all...the....way......through. Only thing missing from this wanna be Hallmark fare, it didn't snow!

Like Nicolas Cage and Bruce Willis, John Travolta is another former silver screen heavyweight who has succumbed into 'from B to the Z movies.' I don't want to say that all of those movies are awful, but usually, they are. 'Trading Paint' is near awful. Looking at the cast and the story, there was a promise for a much better movie. John Travolta is in good form (although his hairline can make you nervous), and the rest of the supporting cast does their work fairly well. But, the writing is so poor that it seems like they filmed the first draft (or perhaps they only had notes of the writers). Actors did their best, but the characters were paper thin and relationships between them shallow and empty - no real development that would have put some juicy meat over the skeleton of the screenplay. After the opening race, the viewers are suddenly thrown into the dating scene between the main character Sam (John Travolta) and his girlfriend Becca (Shania Twain). The viewers never got to know how these two met, and how many dates they already had (they talked like they had been a couple for a long time, but still didn't know much about each other). At least the chemistry between Wain and Travolta was sizzling enough to keep their romance in the fire. Then there is the big rivalry between Sam Munroe and Linsky (Michael Madsen) that is largely left unexplained. Simply put - the relationships lacked real depth and drama. And racing scenes, unfortunately, weren't very spectacular.

When you don't happen to be in the mood of wasting an hour and a half, or if you are not a huge John Travolta fan (who does fairly well in this trite) then 'Trading Paint' is easily passable. For racing fans, there are many more exciting movies out there, and the dramatic part is not well written/directed either. There are worse films out there, but there are definitely much better ones when it comes to filling your hours with simple entertainment. But the main question was left unresolved - was his car indeed auto-matic, system-matic, hyyyyydro-matic? (I totally stole this joke.)

Oh, c'mon....why? That bad hick accent was just the beginning of the bad stuff happening in this film.

I'll just never understand why decent actors do these horrible movies.

Its worth to watch the movie for some reasons :

1. A new screening partnership with Shania Twain

2. The race scenes are Ok

3. The second movie from his own producer JTP

but this movie is too far even from the movies from Travolta career rebirth

So lazy that they won't even name the races that these hillbillies (check those hillbilly accents) love. So lazy that the announcers at the racetrack have to deliver exposition. Predictable. Not one actor tries in this perversion.

If I am going to be honest the movie was an alright movie. A couple videography glitches and a few screw ups on the track but it kept pace and Travolta and Twain made a good main character with great co-actors. I would give it a B+ all over

Look, I'm a huge Travolta fan, I think he is one of the best and most versatile actors in the world. It disappoints me that his career is recently low budget movies, I wasn't a fan of Gotti or Speed Kills but this I preferred over those. Not to say this is a great movie, it's not, but it's average. The story is ok and interesting enough, John is terrific as always and does his best with what he has to work with, the ending is absurd, I won't spoil the movie but the ending just spoils it for me, like I said the movie through out is fine and doesn't get too boring, but the ending was unfortunately a little to silly just to get the heroic finale

As title says, it's not bad but it's not great I have seen much much worse, if you are not a Travolta fan you might think it's bad, I'm a huge fan so maybe though bias i gave it 6/10 which I think is fair

Some of the worst acting, directing, and screenplay I have ever seen. What a huge disappointment. That's a couple of hours I'll never get back. Not to mention it's totally predictable.

Sorry this movie is not very good acting was phony and not good at all don't waste your hard earned money on this one!

I should have read others reviews first. This movie was a complete waste of time. Acting was horrible. Story line was a joke. So disappointed in John Travolta for taking on this film.