Computer Games do not make good movies, they are very different genres, and there have been many an awful film made that started life on a Playstation, Xbox or PC. Couple that with the fact that Need for Speed is a film about illegal road racing, something that has been done 7 times before by the Fast & Furious franchise, and this has all the ingredients to be a bit of a stinker. However I was pleasently surprised. It had a reasonably decent storyline and at times was incredibly fun.
This is not a film without problems however, At over two hours the film is far to long, especially the initial set-up and back story, the "two years later" is, I would estimate, a quarter of the way through the movie. Last week I criticised 300 Rise of an Empire for the amount of narrated back story, this goes totaly the other way, spending half an hour scene setting and introducing characters to show you the motivations of the character later in the movie, this could have been done in half the time.
On the plus side, Aaron Paul & Imogen Poots put in decent performances, and the scene with Finn (Rami Malek) quitting his job is hilarious.
There is little that hasn't been done before, and it could do with 30 minutes being taken off it's run time, particuarly early on, but I was suprised by how much I enjoyed this 7/10
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