Michel Vaillant （车神）一部很棒的赛车电影。
吕克贝松说他自己只会导演十部影片，而他已经拍完九部，所以为了自己的名节着想，他是不敢轻易做导演了。这部电影他只是监制和编剧，但看完后明显感觉这仍是他的电影。
影片的故事很简单，以著名法国勒芒24小时汽车拉力赛为背景，讲述两个著名赛车车队之间两代人的恩怨。虽然这样但法国电影就算是商业片也与好莱坞同类题材的《急速竞赛》和《速度与激情》的大排场电影有着本质的区别，她更注重镜头的美感，动静的组合，用蝴蝶 + 美女 + 呼啸而过的赛车构成独特的视觉感受。
在100分钟的影片里各种各样的赛车场面占了片长的一半以上，雪山上的训练、在逐渐碎裂的冰面上疾驶、盲眼驾驶、赛车在高速公路上穿行、甚至最后男主角胜出的方式都与好莱坞电影迥然不同。CG特效和实景拍摄结合的非常完美，影片偏蓝的色调和定位准确、震撼力强的音响使赛场上的残酷竞争得到准确的传达。
Something about 24 hours of Le Mans
24 hours of Le Mans is a famous sports car endurance race held at a course near Le Mans, France usually in early to mid June. The race was first held in 1923 and has been held annually ever since, cancelled only in 1936 and from 1940 to 1948.
The race is run on a non-permanent track, using mostly normal roads and a part of the permanent Bugatti track. A large number of cars race simultaneously in a number of different classes, the winner being the car that has covered the greatest distance in 24 hours of continuous racing. Each car has a team of three (or prior to the early 1980s two) drivers.
The race is more sadly known for the worst accident in the history of motor racing. In the 1955 race, a Mercedes being driven in the race by Frenchman Pierre Levegh crashed and went into the crowd, killing the driver and 80 spectators. Mercedes not only withdrew its other cars from the race, it withdrew from motor racing generally as a result, and did not return until 1987. That today’s DaimlerChrysler Corporation, owner of the Mercedes marque, is still aware of and sensitive to this incident was evidenced by their re-withdrawal from sportscar racing in 1999 after their CLK sports prototypes caught air and backflipped three times at Le Mans. Aerodynamic modifications intended to prevent recurrence of the problem were implemented after the first incident, but these proved insufficient. Levegh’s accident also prompted the government of Switzerland to ban circuit automobile racing, a ban which still remains in place.