The biker movie Torque is what it is, a biker movie, the critics write dismissively. "It's a simple-minded celebration of speed that pretends to be nothing else, even throwing in the occasional wink to acknowledge its own silliness," Megan Lehmann in the New York Post observes. Or as Wesley Morris notes in the Boston Globe: "This is a movie that knows you know it's dumb, and that's enough to make the whole thing worth tolerating."