Film Threat by Brad Slager

The photography alone would make this a worthwhile effort, but the drama that unfolds over the two years on tour is equally involving and framed by the interviews with former champions.

Variety by Scott Foundas

An often thrilling, always compelling intro to the sport.

Los Angeles Times by Kevin Crust

Neale's cameras and broadcast footage of various races place the audience in a position to experience the participants' need to go faster.

L.A. Weekly by Ron Stringer

An awesome introduction to the sport and the outspoken personalities -- riders, mechanics, engineers, lorry drivers, commentators, fans and girlfriends -- who support it.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker

A jargon-filled documentary less interested in culture and history than mechanics, machinery and the rush of speed.

Chicago Reader by Reece Pendleton

Those craving more visceral kicks will be gratified by the endless crash sequences, but despite the perverse thrill of seeing guys fly off their motorcycles at 150 miles per hour, the crack-ups wear thin after the first hour.

Boston Globe by Leighton Klein

In the end, promotion, as good as it may be, doesn't make for a real documentary. Faster is a kind of bone-crushing fun, but there's little drama and certainly no insight.

Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov

The straight dope for speed junkies and fans of the art of flinging one’s well-padded frame through the contortions enabled only by disastrously catapulting oneself off a slippery asphalt track at speeds even Dale Earnhardt would have dismissed as lunacy.

Washington Post by Michael O'Sullivan

A loud, choppily edited and surprisingly unengaging portrait of speed demons.