![]() ![]() That magic has been captured perfectly in the driving sequences of the film adaptation, and it’s enough to make any gamer or car enthsiast squeal with delight. Want to race a Testarossa through a forest stage and watch your rivals get ploughed into trees by the cops? Done. Need For Speed captured the hearts of racing game lovers because it was fanciful and insane. The racing scenes do a lot to make up for the faults in the dialogue and the story, however. ![]() If you’re allergic to 3D, have a look at how to build 2D glasses to overcome the in-your-faceness of it all. That’s kind of what you sign on for when you buy a ticket to a movie developed in partnership with a video game studio: an overdose of visual effects. One other thing to note is that you’re going to be in for a massive dose of hardcore 3D in this movie. Gotta be condescending because she’s a hot girl. ![]() Why can’t she be a girl who knows about cars and drives like a pro, too? Nope. It isn’t overt sexism that’s in your face all the time, but right up until the closing shot, it’s there, and it’s annoying. Her character is frightened in intense situations because she’s a woman and easily flustered and she for some reason has to constantly be placed in situations where she’s a damsel in distress waiting for Tobey to save her. Instead, we have to sit through a series of wisecracks about how, because she’s a stylish, classy, British woman interested in fashion, she can’t know a goddamn thing about cars, how they work, or how to drive themįor example, she’s accused of not being able to drive because she wears “high-heeled” boots from Gucci. Whereas the Fast And The Furious movies are obsessed with Japanese imports and American muscle, the cars in Need For Speed are straight out of the exotic posters on your bedroom wall: the McLaren P1, Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, Lamborghini Sesto Elemento, Koenigsegg Agera R and more all get an awesome run in this movie. The cars are also fantastic in this movie. Like you’re in the back seat clinging on in the corners yourself. The races in Need For Speed feel intense and almost visceral. When the racers in The Fast And The Furious drive, they make it look effortless and loaded with obvious CGI. Sure, the characters are still one-dimensional and the dialogue is at times laughably bad (Michael Keaton has some awful things to say in this movie), but the races are so much better in Need For Speed than in most of the driving movies we’ve had in the last decade.Įvery race or chase sequence has elements of the epic car chases throughout film history, like the San Francisco hill attacks in Bullitt, the camera angles of The French Connection and the element of danger when it comes to traffic and corners from the Need For Speed games. The producers, director and writers knew that the Fast And The Furious “films” existed and decided to take a left turn when approaching the racing movie genre. Cue a series of insane car chases and races reminiscent of Need For Speed: The Run with his female sidekick, Julia, in tow.ĭespite the fact that it sounds formulaic, don’t be fooled into thinking that you’ll sit down in your seat and watch EA and Dreamworks try to remake the Fast And The Furious with more Ford product placement. Tobey gets out and borrows the billionaire’s Mustang to travel to and hopefully win a secret race happening on the other side of the country. The young kid in Tobey’s crew, Pete, decides to come along, and after a white-knuckle race, Pete is killed in a firey, car-flipping crash by Dino who rammed him off the road in order to win.ĭino frames Tobey for the death, and Tobey goes away for a seemingly short two-year sentence for vehicular manslaughter and grand theft auto. Dino’s got an ego to uphold here.Īfter the car is successfully restored and sold to an eccentric billionaire thanks to Tobey’s superior driving skills, Dino challenges him to a race in some exotic Koenigseggs because he can’t leave that dent in his pride alone. Dino is a big shot, and left the small town Tobey and he lived in together to go race Indy cars. He wants them to restore the Mustang that Ford and Caroll Shelby were building when Shelby died. The villain of the piece is a guy named Dino Brewster (because that’s a name befitting of a bad guy). Tobey runs a mechanic shop for custom racers, and he does pretty good work with his band of merry men: Pete, Benny and Finn. Introducing Tobey Marshall: the hero of our tale played by Breaking Bad‘s Aaron Paul. Abandon hope all ye who enter: there be spoilers ahead. ![]()
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