‘SUPERCROSS,” a collection of product plugs masquerading as a movie en route to home video, leaves no cliché unturned in its dreary, ultra-predictable saga of two pool-cleaning, motorcycle-racing brothers (Steve Howey and Mike Vogel) and the chicks who love them (Sophia Bush, Cameron Richardson).
Vogel is talented but reckless; older brother Howey, who is more cautious, gets hired by a Japanese manufacturer to race on the Supercross circuit. When Howey is sidelined by an accident before the big race, guess who steps in?
The writing is abysmal, the acting wouldn’t pass muster in a high school play, and the direction by erstwhile stuntman Steve Boyum (“Timecop: The Berlin Decision”) is positively sleep-inducing between cycle jumps.
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SUPERCROSS [*] (One star)
Running time: 78 minutes. Rated PG-13 (profanity, sexual suggestiveness). At the Empire, the Chelsea, the 64th and Second, others.