As there is a common belief that
soccer is the universal sport of planet earth if you ask a gamer what is the
universal game they would most probably say Need for Speed or NFS. It’s nearly impossible to find serious gamer
who have not played even a single edition of NFS. And for the love of the game
the long awaited Need for Speed movie is here and from a gamers perspective
it’s everything they can ask for. But from a movie fans perspective there are critical
downsides to it. So before you watch this think to which category you belong
to. I as a person who played NFS from the very beginning when the game was
supported on DOS and had nothing much to offer than pixelated moving objects
have no reason to dislike the movie.
The plot is very straight
forward. When street racer Tobi Marshall (Aaron Paul) is betrayed and sent to
prison he has no other ambition than proving himself right. Once released he
find a fast ride and get in to the legendary undercover street race to beat his
rival.
For anyone who liked Need for
Speed there are definitely two reasons, the nearly fantasy collection of super
cars and the long races. That’s right. Need for Speed has some cars that blow
your speed brains out. For motor heads its porn and the movie follow its games
lead and pump in some really expensive rides. The awesome collection includes 2013
Shelby GT500, Saleen S7, Lamborghini Sesto Elemento, McLaren P1, GTA Spano,
Bugatti Veyron Super Sport and Koenigsegg Agera. I’m quite certain that it’s
the most expensive car line up in a movie so far ‘if’ they were the real deal.
But then again for movies like this with so many of them get crashed at the end
the real cars with real specs are out of limits. Apart from the cars the races
are quite well done. However as the bar is already set up very high by the all-time
king of street race movies Fast and Furious, Need for Speed is lacking some
innovation there. But still the races are very entertaining and full of destruction.
Why Need for Speed fails to make
a mark as a movie is for obvious reasons. To start with the plot is very lose
and utterly impractical. You can say the same about Fast and Furious too but
F&F had some charm in the cast (Heavily with Vin Diesel and Paul Walker)
that made the fans forgive the movies crappy plot holes. But NFS is lacking
that charm and it doesn’t look good. Aaron Paul is a good actor made his way up
the ladder with the awesome TV show Breaking Bad but it seems like this role is
not something that completely fits him. He is a character actor than an action
star and maybe the fans expect more of him than some cheesy lines and
pretending to drive inside a car in a studio. So the cast and plot both are not
working in favor of the movie and that’s a big letdown.
It’s still too early to predict
if Need for Speed will become a big and a good movie franchise in the future if
they make a sequel. But at the moment it drags behind few spots on the top street
car race movies of all time.
Genre: Action | Crime
Director: Scott Waugh
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