Rush

Rush ranks among the best movies about auto racing ever made, featuring two great performances from the leads, who capture not only the physical look of the racing legends they’re playing, but the vastly different character traits that made their rivalry, well, made for the movies.

It's both a perceptive dual character study and, that rarity of rarities, a large-scale action movie for grown-ups, one worth leaving the house for.

Rush is a pretty thrilling piece of pop entertainment. It's excitingly assembled and moves like a bullet, highly engaging and nerve-wracking when it needs to be and light on its feet elsewhere.

It rarely deviates from formula, but Rush wins big, delivering the most exciting F1 footage created for film. Like Hunt, it is sexy, funny, full of thrills. Like Lauda, it is intelligent, a bit blunt, but ultimately touching.

Formula One fans who remember 1976 will no doubt delight in the film but, for those who (like me) were more interested in other things during the year of America's bicentennial, it's not only a good lesson in sports history but an entertaining two hours to spend in a theater.

The problem with car-racing movies, though, is that they are car-racing movies. Has any director found a way to spare audiences the eventual tedium of watching automobiles go around and around a track and instead capture the thrill of the sport?

Ron Howard's by-the-seat-of-your-pants aesthetic makes the slower, darker sequences feel hurried and bland, especially when stacked up next to the racing sequences.

Full-blooded on and off the track, this pedal-to-the-metal biopic is a nerve-rattling, intimate look at two sporting titans - with two career-best turns at its roaring centre.

It tells the story of the pilot Niki Lauda and his rivalry with James Hunt in a rather faithful way. It takes real events and fictionalizes them by building a psychology of the two protagonists useful for transposing real events into a film. One of the best of its kind, although it remains an appreciable film but nothing sensational

A pretty good biopic with decent acting and good visuals. Some aspects of the screenplay don't gel.

I didn't find it completely awful, but after 50 minutes and not finding reason to care about either Hunt or Lauda I saw no reason to continue watching it.

Firstly, all the race scenes including spectators were just ripped-off from the original race clips!!! Secondly, did Lauda used the "F" word often. Hemsworth and Burl did their job well. Overall the movie was nothing original!!!