Sunday, August 17, 2014

Need For Speed (2014)

It's like watching a video game, except you're deprived of the joy of holding the controller in your hands.  So actually, it's like watching other people play video games.  Of course, people do that but I just do not get it.  The movie is bound to face comparison to the closest thing to it: Fast and Furious.  But this movie is missing the fun heist element.  Aaron Paul is probably the only redeeming quality in the movie.  I would say that his talents are wasted here on a flat character that is more or less a rip-off of his righteous, conscious-ridden, act-without-thinking Jesse Pinkman.  In the run up to the culminating race, the film actually plays out as a road trip movie across the country in a fancy car.  But much like real road trips, the car ride is boring without laughs or scenery.  

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