LouHomey
From my favorite movies..
Tedfoldol
everything you have heard about this movie is true.
Senteur
As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.
Calum Hutton
It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
Benedito Dias Rodrigues
In my opinion Preston Tucker never realizes how much strong are the majors car's industry in the world to challenge them,your dream was bury even before to start ,advised by many didn't have hear a think,Coppola made a good job but shown an unnecessary exhbitionist portrait of Tucker,if they made an advanced model in sixty days only seems unbeliavable,require further reliable sources,in final part at trial in courthouse it's sound a crying shame,all those speech straight to the jury are american trademark on movies,otherwise he didn't explain in fact how they spent 23 millions dollars,something was wrong,wasn't convincing at all!!!Resume:First watch: 1992 / How many: 3 / Source: TV-Cable TV-DVD / Rating: 7.25
Johan Dondokambey
The story was a great one about how a revolutionizing idea will live on even after the inventor is thrown aside. Yet the story mainly focus on how the big names in industries will only think of their own gains and advantages to reap from the market by keeping their own outdated innovations and not letting the people to get the best that ideas can offer. The acting is a decent overall. Jeff Bridges gets into character nicely in he managed to maintain Tucker's almost persistent smile yet he can give out the heated anger scenes the live they need. It's nice too see Elias Koteas and Christian Slater adding the right tone here. Joan Allen has also did a good job in completing the spouses and family scenes well.
billcr12
Jeff Bridges stars as Preston Tucker, a pioneer of automobile manufacturing in the 1940s. The Tucker Torpedo was well ahead of its time, with disc brakes, seat belts and fuel injection, all new innovations. The big three auto makers plotted against Tucker, not thrilled with the new competition. A real life courtroom drama ensues with a David vs. Goliath like battle with crooked politicians, bad journalism and a man with a big dream. Coppola put his heart and soul into the making of Tucker, much like the subject did into his car. This film is a fine example of bringing to life a man with a dream who never gave up; very inspirational.
Michael Neumann
Don't expect to learn much from Francis Ford Coppola about maverick car designer Preston Tucker or his dream of challenging the Detroit automaking establishment in the late 1940s. Coppola's long-delayed pet project is a transparent revision of the director's own equally futile, early '80s pipe dream of creating a rival Hollywood movie studio, with the blame for its eventual failure placed squarely on a conspiracy of corporate envy and bureaucratic greed. The film has all the depth and complexity (not to mention the same antic pace) of an old Warner Brothers cartoon, and like a cartoon can be a lot of fun, showing all the giddy optimism of post-World War II America, overplayed here to the point of near-hysteria. It's thin stuff, but on the superficial level of craftsmanship alone the film is a visual showcase, running out of gas (so to speak) only during the inevitable courtroom summary, set in Chicago but shot (to the amusement of Northern Californians) in downtown San Francisco. At the climax of his trial Coppola's screen analogue is allowed the chance to restate the theme of the film, which was never more meaningful than 'you can't fight City Hall'.
