This disappointing British sports movie observes a group of female runners preparing for a world athletic event in London. The social backgrounds are crudely etched, the races (edited to a synthesised rock score) unexciting, the results predictable. Will black working-class Shania from a sink estate tame her egotism to become a relay star? Will white middle-class Lisa get out from under the shadow of her overbearing Olympic gold medallist father and become a world-class sprinter in her own right? The film's brightest moment comes when the relay team angrily retaliate against four black male chauvinists who harass them in a bar. After removing their high heels, the enraged girls tear off barefoot, and the pursuing guys are properly humiliated, outdistanced by these Harriets of ire.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jun/17/fast-girls-review-lenora-crichlow
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