MOVIE REVIEW - Need For Speed

Hey, if you want to go and watch people drive cars around for 2 hours and 10 minutes, then Need For Speed is your movie.

This is based on the very popular video game, and now it's your chance to see it here on the big screen. Why? I am really not sure.  This is just flat out a waste of time in about every single regard. Oh, there is some fancy driving in this movie that is to be respected, but about everything else about this movie is simply silly.

It's the "story" of a young motor-head from Mt. Kisco, New York who owns a racing shop, and drives in illegal street racing with his friends.  They drive through their hometown in these amazing vintage muscle cars made 30 years before they were born.  They spend their time risking everyones life in town as the roar through town at 100 plus mph, all while a friend is in the air in a private plane looking for trouble.  No helmets, no seat belts, no one gets hurt, no cops, and no consequences.

He and his group a fellow racers, then hit the big time, and get involved in developing a special Shelby Mustang.  (Yeah, I know.)   So, then after we watch a few more silly races, and cars going fast, one of our friends gets killed in a silly race by a rival racer who leaves the scene as our hero takes the rap for his friends death.  Then the whole movie goes in a direction of our hero, and the rival racer finally meeting up again at a special, secret race in California so our hero can avenge his friends death, and be a big deal. 

Aaron Paul and Imogene Poots star in this really ill-advised movie franchise that sadly, is set up for more.   This is not Fast And Furious in any way, although clearly they would like to capitalize on it.  This to its credit, and to its detriment, has a real video game to it.  So the film makers would say mission accomplished.  And I would say, great!  Why come to this and watch this, when I can stay home in my shorts, save the 12 large, and actually play the game at my leisure.  That is the big problem here.  There's just no reason to go to this.

And with all that said, it's just so amazingly silly all the way through. Paul and Poots hold up their end, and do the best they can with what they are given.  And what they are given, is a bad script bordering on horrible, that is more concerned with product placement, and being a huge commercial for Ford and many others.  Paul has good things ahead for him, and Poots is certainly an interesting presence on screen, and like her.  But there is just too much silliness mixed in.

Need For Speed. Play the game at home, and have more fun..way more.