NEED FOR SPEED 2 MOVIE 2018 DRIVERS

The cast doesn’t have the sassy swagger of the “Fast & Furious” crew. But these throaty machines are put through their paces, with enough of the driving tricks plainly performed by the cast to make this a car culture picture Steve McQueen might approve. And some of the bits where cars get airborne are preposterous outside of an auto stunt show. No, nobody ever changes tires, no matter how much Tobey drifts that beefy, 900hp Mustang. Stuntman turned director Scott Waugh (“Act of Valor”) makes this into a stunt team tour de force. “Nobody knows who he is,” even though his webcasts are on video and we can see him.īut get past those head-slappers, give up on hearing any dialogue snappier that “Looks like a scene out of ‘Speed’ down there hard left in 3, 2, 1…” and this is a car fanatic’s dream. The real race, The DeLeon, is run by a mysterious, manic and motor-mouthed millionaire (Michael Keaton) who broadcasts the races online. They’re dashing from upstate New York, through New York city to Detroit, then Indiana, Monument Valley, Arizona, Utah’s Bonneville salt flats and into San Francisco, where the REAL race will start. As if that could happen.Īnd the car comes with its own “right seater,” a navigator/co-driver who is the owner’s hot blonde car aquisition specialist, played by Imogen Poots. Tobey’s team includes a pilot (Mescudi) and a chase truck that can refuel that thirsty beast on the road.

So he talks a billionaire collector into lending him a Shelby Mustang that he customized. Tobey gets out of jail, rounds up his team (Scott Mescudi, Rami Malek, Ramon Rodriguez, Harrison Gilbertson) and sets out for revenge.įirst, he has to get a car. Somebody gets killed, on top of all the innocent bystanders and their SUVs, school buses and Mommyvans that they run off the road. Dumb? They’ve almost out-dumbed the dumbest “Fast and Furious” movie.Īaron Paul of “Breaking Bad” is Tobey, a car builder and racer from rural New York whose rivalry with the hometown boy (Dominic Cooper) who made it to the Indy 500 reveals the consequences of tearing it up on public highways. Given state of the art stunts and 3D cinematography, it’s a trip.īut “Need for Speed” also makes the journey from video game to big screen without the curse of logic and without the benefit of a punchy, pithy script for its cliched characters to quote.

NEED FOR SPEED 2 MOVIE 2018 DRIVERS

It’s a “Cannonball Run” throwback, with drivers punching through gears and burning through tires as they dodge the cops in illegal street races. A cross-country sprint followed by a daredevil dash through rural California by the superest of today’s supercars, “Need for Speed” is a car-lover’s dream, a showcase for everything from Bugatti Veyrons to vintage Camaros. For anybody tired of digital movie car chases that, while fast and furious, routinely defy the laws of physics, here’s one where the cars and stunts are real (mostly) and spectacular.

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