Customer Reviews

Third Down

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Unless you absolutely love urban trials, this video is not worth the time and effort to order it, let alone the price.

This video has a feel about it that the makers were trying to maximize profits by minimizing costs. There are only a couple of locales that are used, one is what appears to be somebody's back yard that they made into a dirt jumping course. There's that and some hucking off of the same sort of cliff, a little bit of technical downhill, and alot of urban trials, lots of jumping down stairs.

If you want to see a well balanced video, get either the latest in the New World Disorder or Kranked series. This was a bigger disapointment than Star Wars:Episode 1.

Let's see, a couple of riders in a couple of places doing a couple of things, that about sums it up. All of the different forms of riding seem to be done at the exact same places, there's a dirt jump course in somebody's back yard (I'm not kidding) some guys hucking off of the same sort of cliffs, Evil Dave breaking a dual crown fork after not making a MX-assisted jump, and the most promising part is camera work on a technical downhill section, but the camera moves away instead of with the riders so the effect seems wasted.

This movie (unless you just LOVE urban trials) is a definate DO NOT buy. The music is sub par, riding is the same thing over and over, one shot is a jump normal speed, the next shot (no, I'm not kidding) is the same jump in slow motion. Krispy needs to give these guys the slip because he's more talented than this movie shows.

Fat Tire Fury is still my favorite MTB movie, best riding, best locations, best music.

If you're looking to see Bender hucking more cliffs you better start looking elswewhere. Krispy does make his normal appearance, but this time the cliff-dropping was kept to perhaps 2/5 of the movie. But before you start weeping like a little girl, Third down rises leaps and bounds above the previous movies because of this (at least for us city-dwellers). What you will see on this movie is an astounding blend of trials and freeriding in the urban arena. It is about time for urban riding to start taking some of the spotlight. I would only give this movie 4 stars since Contact (crfilms) is still the best place to go for urban/trials but since so few movies have yet to devote much time to urban I will go ahead and give it five stars.