Cast: Daniel Brühl, Chris Hemsworth, Olivia Wilde,Alexandra Maria Lara
Director: Ron Howard
Genre: Biography, Sport
This is easily the movie of the weekend. A must watch for all F1 lovers and a sure shot for non sport savvy's as well!
Pluses:
- This movie belongs to the two leads Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl. Beautiful re enactment of the love and hate relationship between the arch rivals from the real life heroes 'James Hunt' and 'Niki Lauda' respectively. Chris Hemsworth, an indisciplined man, a womanizer while on a contrary Daniel Bruhl playing a rather focussed, disciplined, one woman man. Both sharing one common passion of racing
- The best part of the movie are the racing moments and the one to one exchange of words between the duo. You are at the edge everytime they are on the tracks. Beautifully shot. And you will fall in love with both the characters by the end of the movie
- Chris Hemsworth plays charismatically the role given to him, so different from how we know him as 'Thor'. Not a bulky god but chiseled hunk. He has a shade of gray, you love him or you hate him, but you cant ignore him :) While on the other hand, you will always have a support and a soft corner for Daniel Bruhl even though his character also is no less of an asshole :)
- Director gets a lot of credit in the way the movie is shot, edited. Nothing feels short of or overdone or even misplaced anywehere. One after other aspect shown crisp, not wasting too much time in detailing or dialogues. Just the right dosage of entertainment, never loosing track of the content
- My favorite scene is the last scene of the movie. Talking about 70's and there you see a lifestyle, and the level of maturity in men, only so much more to tell you, yes they belong to a developed country, then and always. Far beyond the reach of even the current mentallity our Indian film makes can only dream to share
- Alexandra Maria Lara was a patient and matured support
Lukewarm:
I didnt quite like Olivia Wilde. She was just there, no good looks nor any weight to the role
Minuses:
Nothing noticeably weird or a shortcoming. I enjoyed every bit of this biography :)
My rating: 4/5
1 comment:
Why is it not 5/5 ?
:)
Another interesting element the director has shown is the special chemistry between two true rivals. It's best shown in the scene where James Hunt takes on the crazy media person who dared ask an irritating question about Niki's personal life in the wake of his burns.
I found it to be a very strong telling scene . It goes to show the unexpressed love he had for his rival in spite of being insolent on every occasion possible.
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