Review of Rush (2013) by A T — 24 Apr 2014
Car racing isn't my thing on TV, it just really is commentary of racers around a looped track. But car movies on film have been slightly more successful from Talladega Nights, the Fast and Furious franchise to now Rush.
Smartly focusing on the over-exaggurated story of the Lauda-Hunt rivalry, the two men are out to prove each other wrong in a film that mostly works. There are too many scenes of "grass getting chopped" and heavy handed messaging, but it really is the performance of Bruhl as Lauda that is remarkable.
Similar to Christian Bale in The Fighter, you lose Bruhl in the character so effectively. Less can be said about Chris "I don't really know what I'm saying" Hemsworth and Olivia Wilde who really just shows up for 10 minutes.
And really by default, it's both of their best movies, even if it's primarily Bruhl's movie. It obviously doesn't attract too much interest from the NA crowd with it's heavy European influences (including the drawn out runtime even in a racing film) but some of the scenes of the action are fantastic to see and fascinating to depict the Lauda mind and character.
This review of Rush (2013) was written by A T on 24 Apr 2014.
Rush has generally received very positive reviews.
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