Tobey and crew do the job because there's a $3 million price tag on the finished product, of which they'll receive 25 percent.
Dino has a long rivalry with Tobey, so the latter should be suspicious when he's asked to complete the Mustang that auto maker Carroll Shelby was working on before he died. Into this chummy, platonic circle drives Dino ( Dominic Cooper). (Note to filmmakers: Cars crashing through fruit stands-cool. An early race gave me a rather icky feeling, especially when one racer hits a homeless guy's cart, nearly killing him.
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Benny ( Scott Mescudi), a pal with a pilot license, flies overhead, radioing down traffic information and road conditions to the drivers as they navigate streets filled with clueless regular drivers. Marshall is The One Who Drives, a car shop owner who enjoys racing with his co-worker cronies Joe ( Ramon Rodriguez), Finn ( Rami Malek) and best friend Pete (Harrison Gilberton). The source of all this drama is Tobey Marshall (Aaron Paul). A solitary tear shed near the end would shame even the most melodramatic telenovela. The sudden appearance of a preternaturally slow, somber version of "All Along the Watchtower" under a scene nearly sent Sprite shooting out of my nose.
He pauses for all manner of false emotional effect, and the main character's "anguish" is expressed in ways that are unintentionally hilarious rather than heartbreaking. Director Scott Waugh makes sure you feel all 130 minutes of "Need for Speed," and even worse, he expects you to take this nonsense seriously.
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A good movie, however, will pump a viewer so full of adrenaline that problems are noticed only upon much later reflection. Of course, one must expect, and welcome, a certain level of preposterousness in a film like this. It raises many "but wait…" questions, and the film is so sluggish that you'll have plenty of time to contemplate each one with disgust. (Note: Don't waste your money on the 3-D.) There's a sloppiness to the writing that is downright infuriating each overly plotted moment is reconciled in ways that would get a failing grade in the cheesiest screenwriting class. Gatins' script is also so full of contrivances and coincidences that you'll be compelled to bang your head into the seat in front of you, sending your 3-D glasses flying into the air. An actor with Paul's talent deserves a better feature in which to make his leading actor debut. There's not one note of interest nor complexity at all. The characters who inhabit "Need for Speed" may as well be stick figures with the trope they represent written over their heads. The script pulls every punch, opting for a safe, wimpy simplicity that insults the viewer. Screenwriter George Gatins hints at elements Peter Fonda or Warren Oates would have nailed, and there are moments when "Need for Speed" flirts with the darkness found in films like "Dirty Mary Crazy Larry" and "Race with the Devil."Īaron Paul doesn't have the coolness nor the gravitas of '70s era Oates or Fonda, but I can't blame him for this film's failure. This type of movie was more fun-and more dangerous-when Roger Corman and other '70s B-movie producers made them.
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