There were some little glimpses - reminders of a good game series, but I could not bear all the cliches of the script. The creators didn't even tried to make it look believable, and that is just offensive!
I enjoyed this more than fast and furious. This felt like a real racing movie.
Don't waste you time on this piece of crap... You'll regret it unless you have very low standards when it comes to watching movies, or if you don't care about a story, plot lines, consistency, character development... Because this has none of that stuff.
The IMDB blurb says the following.
"Fresh from prison, a street racer who was framed by a wealthy business associate joins a cross country race with revenge in mind. His ex-partner, learning of the plan, places a massive bounty on his head as the race begins."
Now this is really inaccurate to begin with... The first 20 mins of the movie are devoted to the initial opening race to show that the protagonist is a real racer, the best of the best sort of thing who loves to street race. It also sets up the younger friend who's like a brother and will soon be dead scenario (predictable) and who happens to be the younger brother of the ex girlfriend who's now with a douchebag and the films antagonist... Still following that utterly predictable and lame format so far.
Antagonist makes offer protagonist can't refuse to finish building a 3 million dollar car... because protagonist does that sort of thing. Car is sold to a millionair after a few seconds of it being test driven and instead of taking the 500k fee for the work, protagonist accepts offer of a race to prove he's better than the antagonist in return for the rest of the cash from the car sale if he wins... By this point the movie is so predictable that I'm sat there saying, friend/brother will be dead a few mins. A few mins later, antagonist causes accident and gues what... the friend/brother dies in a horrible fiery death. Protagonist stops, can't help and gets arrested... antagonist drives of and claims he was never there and because he's rich is able to stick it to the man and get away with it... Still utterly predictable. Protag gets fingered for stealing cars and getting friend killed.
Cut to a few years later and protagonist is released from jail... according to the voice over... has managed to arrange to 'borrow' that 3 million dollar car he helped build from a virtual stranger who knows that he was in jail for stealing a car and getting a friend killed... but that's ok because we wouldn't want to hold up the lame and predictable plot now would we.
Car is delivered by the woman who works for the cars owner and flirted with the protag for a few mins when she met him a few years earlier. Is completely fine with driving across country with a convict she doesn't know so she can keep an eye on the car.
That sets up the love interest part of this predictable movie and does nothing to further the plot at all. In fact of the two women in this film... both are only there because they're new or former love interests of the protagonist... Why even bother having any women in the movie at all.
So protag and lover set of across country... they've got 45hrs to get to California to take part in a secret race that they don't know where it's being held, haven't been invited to and sets up the final act.
Now this is where the blurb for the movie pisses me off... they're travelling across country to try and take part in the race... not taking part in a race across country.
But first... the predictable plot needs to get the old team back together because the car that they built and is/was perfect and capable of doing 230mph now handles like a bag of shit and only the team can fix it... Not that they actually make any changes to the car at all, it's just mentioned and miraculously resolved... during the time wasted getting the team together, we have a police chase that one of the team films from the air (conveniently a pilot) and the protag films from the car... this is uploaded miraculously to the website of the guy holding the race in california and impresses him so much he offers an invite to the protag to take part in the race... because that's where the antagonist will be and we all know you can only prove yourself innocent by beating your former friend and killer of said other friend in a race.
Are you bored yet... because this review is actually more exciting than the movie so far.
Cue the antagonist finding out that he's invited to the race and puts out the call to stop him reaching San Francisco.
This is all in about the first 40 mins of the movie.
The actual racing across country and dealing with these bounty hunters out to stop him is completely glossed over, the 45hr trip is all said and done in around 30 mins complete with side stops to refuel, so he and the girl can flirt with each other and so we can see the lame how to stop the policeman from chasing you... that's ripped right from the script of the Blues Brothers... Seriously, they' not even trying to come up with a single original idea here.
So the sister of the dead friend/brother just so happens to be watching the podcast by the guy holding the race in San Fran when the new love interest calls in to defend protag and advance the plot by stating that the antag was also present when friend/brother died.
This prompts the woman who is engaged to the douchebag antagonist to go and search through his office... where she conveniently finds storage paperwork on his computer, with his signature on it... that happens to be where he put the car he was driving when he caused the death of the other guy... Yes, a few years later, that car is still in his possession, still owned in his name and was NEVER even repaired to hide the proof of the crash... C'mon, they're not even trying... I'm sure some one has a script generator program and just hit 'Run' to produce this pile of garbage.
So protag and love interest make it to San Fran just a few mins late and sign up for the race... As they leave to find a hotel, employee of the antagonist crashes into them in a truck and flips the car over. Cue maudlin scenes where he takes love interest to hospital and is moping around because 'Game Over Man, Game Over' (what I can't steal a line from Aliens, but this movie can steal everything from everywhere)... CUE old love interest turning up because she now believes he's innocent and hands him the address and code to get into the storage unit where the other car is stored.
YAY... now the protag has a car for the big race and it's the one used to kill his friend.
So what does he do.
Does he take it to the police to prove his innocence and that paint from the accident is still on the bodywork, does he show police the storage paperwork and ownership docs to prove the antagonist is responsible.
NOPE
He's going to race him instead to prove that he's the better driver because only then will that resolve anything.
GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK... This movies is so shit that I can't believe I'm still watching it.
So cue the race and one by one all the other cars are taken out, cops giving chase and so forth until just the two cars are left. You'll never guess which two... seeing as we were never even introduced to the other drivers taking part in the race at all.
Cue protag taking the moral high ground and not bumping the antag of the road, instead selling him a dummy and making him crash all on his own because he's an inferior driver.. Protag then sees his car upside down and on fire and has to stop and pull him out of the wreck... so he can check he's ok (because he's a doctor and knows all about internal injuries and so forth) and then punch him out for his friend.
Then he runs back to his car, finishes the race and gets arrested... whilst the podcast guy does the exposition voice over to explain everything to the audience... who I assume are 12yrs old and unable to follow the utterly stupid, predictable and pathetic script/story.
Cut to a few months later... protag getting out of jail again and being picked up by love interest who is perfectly fine after being critical in hospital where he just upped and left her to go race a fucking car... and she's fine with that, is ok with him being moron for racing instead of going to the police with the evidence that could have been destroyed by his actions.
Cue end of movie sexism where he won't let her drive.
Roll credits
This review is ten times better than the movie... Please save yourself from wasting a couple of hours and do something far more interesting... Like watching paint dry. You'll thank me for it.
Unless of course you like, pathetic movies with bad acting, terrible action sequences, one dimensional characters with no depth and a plot with so many holes you could sail the Titanic through them.
Because if you though this movie was good... I have news for you... You have idea what makes a good movie.
Liked this much more than FaF series :)
I couldn't even finish watching it. the argument does not exist. the characters have no charisma, they are flat. very bad adaptation
Just bad enough to be good. I love the sound design in this film.
I was expecting another "Fast and Furious"-like movie but I was surprised. Not the best movie in the History of world cinema, but worth a shot. Specially if you played any Need For Speed. Although there are some plot holes, the movie is not that bad.
It was better than I expected. Don't expect too much though. I was thinking about The Breaking Bad whole time during watching the movie because of Aaron Paul. It's like seeing Harry Potter in somewhere else.
This film is rubbish but does have a great selection of cars and a good racing and that is all I need
Well my time to end the freaking bad popular comments about this movie,
this movie had an amazing and well selected cast and a story line who was exciting and suprising. We need to think that this movie had to compete with fast and furious and even the type of experience people had while playing the need for speed franchise. Aaron Paul was a great choice to play the main role, showed alot of emotion and fulfilling and even escalating what he needed to do for this type of movie.
Just to finish and summarize it all, if you want a racing movie that is funny and with thrilling storyline just get this one and see it and you won't regret it not even for a second and if you think this is just another car movie well think again because this one is brings a breath of fresh way to this genre.
Lets bring this comment up guys,
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As with all racing movies, this is not a good movie on itself.
But keep in mind this movie is a tribute to the games, and not an act to try to make a movie that can stand on itself. So do not expect anything about story or characters. This movie is all about fast awesome cars and racing them.
It was easily better than any of the Fast and Furious movies, mainly because they used better scenery, cars and camera work. They definitely have people more experienced with car filming than the crew from FaF.
The main pleasure point about the movie are the references and camera actions that came straight from the game. I did think they could've added a bit more cockpit views and 'behind the car' looks like in NFS itself. The constant shifting from left to right behind the car disappointed me.
I would give the movie a 4/10 but the racing shots + the NFS experience are really giving the movie extra points. So I will give it an undeserved 6/10 from me.
Really BAD. Plot made for dogs, the cops are worse then those from The Blues Brothers. Music is to over-expressive. Besides the cars everything is CRAP.
Bad
What I'd expect from a movie focused on a mustang.
Imogen Poots is the most beautiful girl i've seen in my whole life. Seriously
Good one, makes justice to the game... which btw is also very unreal but that’s part of if!
Too bad there was never a second one
Would love to see a “most wanted” movie if you know what I mean
Awesome film! Some really nice cars in this. The story line is pretty damn good too! Some parts hit you right in the feels.
10/10 :)
Trailer is out - staring Aaron Paul (aka: Jesse Pinkman)!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wthVGpJkgmc
Cars cars cars and more cars sadly film is let down
It's not the first time I've watched this; in fact, I think this was the third time? Not sure but anyhoo... When I was 16-17 years old and in high school (more than a day or two ago, trust me) I use to write stories. For myself. No one else ever read them. They were a sort of "escapism" for me. I wasn't abused or molested or neglected or anything like that; I was just pretty much a loner and didn't have much of a social life, so I would sit in my bedroom at night and write stories. Longhand. This was before the days of computers and word processors, and I didn't even have a typewriter; I wrote these stories out longhand in a spiral notebook, and kept them for years. They were so far-fetched and outlandish that when I went back years later and read (or tried to anyway!) I literally couldn't finish them; it was obvious they were the mental meanderings of a very lonely kid who just really needed a social life and didn't have one, so he made one up. It was, of course, a completely outlandish fantasy...
And that brings me to Need for Speed , the movie. A few years back (several, in fact, because I was still using a PC) I was completely engrossed in the PC game Need for Speed . Joystick, headphones, the works... It got so bad, in fact, that my wife even complained one time (maybe more than once) about "that incessant music that is ALWAYS playing" when I would play the game. She actually - one of the very few times in our years of marriage - reached a point of complete exasperation with my infatuation with the game… but there it was: I loved the game, and it was a great time-waster. So watching this movie - at least THIS time - I was surprised to realize that DUH! the movie is based completely on the computer game. (No, I never realized that before.) And as they raced through the different scenes, I found myself recalling those very scenes/tracks in the game from years ago. The downtown scene at night, the coastal highway race, the winding highway through the towering pines, etc etc. It was like watching (yes, another "Duh!" moment) a live re-enactment of the computer game, only with "real people" this time. From THAT aspect, I actually enjoyed kind of a weird nostalgic guilty pleasure in watching this, but for that very reason ONLY: It brought back a lot of great memories of all those afternoons and evenings when (instead of sitting down and watching a streaming movie or TV show and then writing a long review about it) I would sit down, plug in the joystick, pop my headphones on, and fire up Need for Speed with its pounding bass beat music and revving engines, and just "drive" high-end exotic cars through tracks and roadways that I'd memorized.
Apart from that nostalgic pleasure, however, this movie reeked. I mean, it just stunk. The acting was decent enough (it really was, and it was a fair cast they put together for this) and the racing was fun...but deep down inside, I kept cringing through the entire movie because it really was like those outlandish stories I would write for myself back in high school. I mean, EVERYTHING that could possibly go right for "the hero" went right. Oh sure, he had a couple of rough spots in the movie (no spoilers) but the way they wrote this was very much like the way I wrote my stories: insert a moment of "tragedy" here, but play it off and 3 minutes later, somehow it's all been swept under the rug, forgotten by a steel-hard, cold-as-ice heart and miraculously not only get your revenge, but get it in spades....with the entire world witnessing it all happen. It really was (both this movie and those stories I wrote) so completely outlandish that it was somehow more cringe-worthy than laughable. You kind of just... There was... It was just really awkward from start to finish. That's the best way I can put this.
If you're into racing movies, there are far worse things you can watch. This is not a "bad" movie…certainly not "bad" for different viewers. Maybe it just hit me the wrong way, but for the average fan of racing, action, high-octane, fast-paced action movies this is probably an enjoyable way to spend an evening. If you've NEVER watched this, but you've played the computer game, this should be fun for you: you'll get to see all those different tracks and roads come to life here (including that lighthouse on the coastline). If you've never played the computer game...well, it's certainly dated by today's standards, but that shouldn't detract from enjoying this one. It's weird, it's awkward, it's completely so utterly goofy and far-fetched that you might find yourself laughing at it. But it's still fun and I wouldn't shy away from it.
this is for the fans, not for the folks
Silly and predictable, but plenty of fun.
Okay...YES...the story was utterly predictive and filled with holes, but the driving and the cars...damn that was good.
Soooooo very obvious. Two things were good: the races were very loyal to the games (the scenery, the views from within the cars, etc); Aaron Paul's acting. Too good an actor for this kind of movie, hope he doesn't get stuck in this kind of things.
I so liked this movie. I loved that surrealistic world they created. Perfect mix between our real world and a kind of sci-fi gaming world. I have to admit I'm not a nfs game fan so maybe I won't understand some things real fans didn't appreciate about it but I loved this was not just a "racing" movie. Every race was there for a specific reason and it was all about revenge and justice and feelings. Also I appreciated that long shot of making a movie entirely without green screen and cgi. Every scene i watched with flying cars I was there thinking oh wait.. geez they really did that LIVE! And that means a lot to me going back to those crap movies all created behind a computer screen.
it is awesome i'm awesome we awesome they awesome
Nice cars and racing. Not so much else. Average movie.
Overall a very mediocre movie. I really enjoyed it at times but it was way too long to keep me interested throughout the whole movie.
Very predictable, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.
Nothing that we did not already see in any of the Need for Speed, just wicker in any possible way. I don't really know what I expected.
Entirely predictable, so if you've seen more than a handful of similar films in your lifetime, this may be dull for you. However, there are a few jokes, and it is undeniably a Need for Speed product - it feels just like you would expect a film of the games to be.
Braking bad meets Fast and furious. Worse than any of them.
Watching
Need for speed
was not bad if you have played NFS
and i though they couldn't make a worst racing based movie then fast and furious... 7,1 on imdb... what did people smoke while watching this?
i actualy liked it :)
Muy muy buena la recomiendo :D
Shout by aldyBlockedParent2014-11-05T09:31:12Z
Absolutely terrible, so many things wrong with it.