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Need for Speed (NFS) is a racing game franchise published by Electronic Arts. Most entries in the series are generally arcade racing games centered around illegal street racing, and task players with completing races of various types while evading police pursuit. Some entries also do not follow the basic setup of most titles and are instead simulation racers, focus on legal circuit races, feature kart racing game…
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[English Version] For as long as I can remember movies based on video games have earned a predictable bad reputation with cases of even box office flops due to the low expectation of those movies. But something different has happened in recent years with the release of the Sonic movies and the recent release of the Mario movie where the critics have treated these movies very well and the public reception has been re…More
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This is about more than racing In talking about movies based on video games, need for speed is undoubtedly one of the best I've seen. The cinematography was awesome, and the story was so good it actually drew me in and to be honest, I hadn't expected that. The conflict between the characters was super. Talk about stakes! Talk about intensity! And let's not even go into the soundtrack... but I guess for a Need for Sp…More
Short review: this doesn’t work. Need for Speed stars Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper, Imogen Poots and Michael Keaton and is about a mechanic/racer named Tobey (played by Paul) who, upon release from jail for a crime he didn’t commit, enters a cross-country race in order to get revenge on the guy that put him away. Things are complicated. To start, the film can’t decide its tone: comedy? Thriller? Definitely an actioner…More