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[En/Es] Need for Speed: The Movie - Is it really undervalued? |Analysis| ¿Esta realmente infravalorada?@jazzn1151d
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  1. Need For Speed: The Movie Review@petermarie2727d

    This is about more than racing

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    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 Speed movie, that should be expected.

    The movie begins with a voice over from Monarch, a reclusive race c and we are literally told Tobey Marshall is the best race car driver ever. Then we are introduced to Tobey and his crew, Finn, Pete, Benny and Joe Peck, all of whom work together at Tobey's automobile shop. That's just their day job, though -- at night, Tobey and Pete take part in street racing, watched over by Benny from his chopper in the sky.

    Enter Dino. The rivalry between Tobey and Dino is palpable, so the rich driver doesn't come to him at once, but instead lets Anita, his fiancée, Pete's sister and Tobey's ex-girlfriend to approach him first. When Dino does come, he offers him at least $500,000 for his crew's expertise in cars, to have them restore a one-of-a-kind Ford Mustang. They're all reluctant to have anything to do with Dino, but the automobile shop is in trouble and they really need the money so Tobey accepts. And they do get the job done. But just as the deal concludes and the restored car is sold, Tobey's and Dino's rivalry reaches a peak, and they must know who is the best on the road. Dino offers each of them identical, very fast cars (Pete joins in) and the race is on.

    And here, everything falls apart. When Tobey is close to winning, with a lot of help from Pete who blocks Dino, Dino hits the boys's rear tire and sends him crashing in flames, dying instantly. Then, as Tobey turns back to help,he goes ahead to 'win', leaving Pete there.

    Did I say the rivalry was peaked before? After this, it skyrocketed. Dino left quickly and covered up all evidence of his being at the scene, leaving Tobey to take the fall for Pete's death and leading to him losing the shop and spending two years in prison. When he does get out, it's time for revenge. He borrows the Ford he'd restored and enters the De Leon, a winner-takes-all race organised by Monarch. Dino tries to stop him, but he fails and they both meet at the race where Tobey wins and, uncovering the car that killed Pete, finally proved his innocence.

    Okay, there was a lot of action in that last part, but you got to watch it to feel it. I highly recommend this, especially for Need For Speed fans. Still, the best aspect of the movie to me was how the characters had clear motives that really set them against each other. It might be a movie based on a racing game, but it was far more than that.


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  2. Insomniac Film Festival #68: Need for Speed@rvgenaille2889d

    image 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. Second the cinematography was weird. I get the use of GoPro in some racing sequences but some of the other stuff was strange. The character stuff was odd. Poots’ character was odd. Her character seemed to change with the scenes to be what was needed in the moment regardless of consistency.

    The set up was far too long. image The action scenes were pretty cool and many of the supporting players, Tobey’s crew, are fun and funny.

    You can see how this could have been a great race film but somehow it doesn’t work, the parts don’t fit together. It’s entertaining enough but it doesn’t quite work.

    Entertaining but doesn’t work.

    image -all photos via IMDb.com.

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