Rush (2013) Rating 4.5/5

“Men love women… but men love cars more”. Gentlemen start your engines to witness the greatest sports movie that the world has seeing so far about fast cars and rivalry sportsmanship. To be honest I never expected Rush to be this adrenaline pumping and magnificent. What I had in mind was cars, speed and some historical facts lined up to become a watchable story. But here I’m blown away by this sheer fantastic movie that packs everything that a good sports movie should have. From very start to the end it is nothing but a lightning speed drive that will put you in a formula 1 coma.

To begin with any serious petrol head is obsessed with F1 no doubt. And this movie brings out the best of the sport plus a very powerful true story of the famous rivalry on track between English born sexy James Hunt and the Austrian hard headed disciplined and ambitious Niki Lauda. The story starts in early 70s where they both meet for the first time in F3 with low profiles and low budgets and the sparks of rivalry appears after a head to head battle on the track that ends with Lauda on the dirt. But soon they both ends up driving for big teams in the big F1 cars and the burning desire to defeat one another fuels them to go to extremes. And the story unfolds their true spirits and the strong will to become the champion defeating the rest and most importantly their key rivals that puts a whole spin to the movie beyond the cars and speed brings in.

While all the drama happens between these two the movie profoundly creates a beautiful atmosphere with brilliant cinematography and powerful score by Hans Zimmer that brings the viewer to the race track like never before. As I recall the last time I was this impressed by something related to F1 was after watching Senna which is a documentary. But Rush brings the whole sport to the viewer so up close that you actually feel the tension corner after corner when the race is on. And you realize that there is a chill running down your spine and you’re not even holding a steering wheel. Now that’s what I call movie making. Rush puts you in a place that so distant but makes it so familiar.

Beautiful performances by Chris Hemsworth (Proving he is something than a super hero character with a hammer)  and Daniel Brühl  alongside the over the top directing of Ron Howard, Rush is one hell of a ride that you should not miss. Bravo!!