I rarely give a movie this low a rating, because every movie has it's pluses, but Need for Speed had me angry the whole two hour run time. I liked the first three and the fifth Fast and Furious movies, so I'm not a hater of the genre, but this film . . .
I have never seen so much irresponsible, stupid, idiotic and moronic decisions made by so many characters. The main character and supposed hero of the story, Tobey Marshall, is the most reckless, idiotic, brain-dead human being I have ever seen on celluloid. And the fact he is the hero of the story says something. The amount of innocent people this person put in danger with his stupid decisions made Dino (the bad guy) look like a saint in comparison, and the whole movie I hoped Tobey would either get arrested or crash his car so no one else could be put in danger by his stupidity. There is no logic to any of the decisions he makes. The whole gang of protagonists are basically criminals with zero to below zero intelligence, who make one bad, irresponsible, illogical and non-heroic maneuver after another.
I don't know if this is what the film makers were going for, to show what big egg-heads people who drive like this are, but they succeeded on every level of convincing me the world has gone mad, and that immoral behaviour that puts lives at risk for . . . for what? For some secret illegal race? To prove who's the better driver? To prove who's the bigger man? To win 2.7 million dollars when the cash is spread out enough to make ends meet for a long time? "What?" I kept asking myself. "What the hell are these meat-heads doing?" I've never seen Aaron Paul in anything else, so I don't know what type of actor he is, but he managed to pull of the "Brain-dead, talks in the longest drawl possible, stupid-faced, Pinky/Brain Hybrid, Doh" character I have ever seen. If that's what he was going for, he succeeded. If he didn't want me to like his character at all. He succeeded.
The one star is for the blonde brit, and that is about it.
I have never seen so much irresponsible, stupid, idiotic and moronic decisions made by so many characters. The main character and supposed hero of the story, Tobey Marshall, is the most reckless, idiotic, brain-dead human being I have ever seen on celluloid. And the fact he is the hero of the story says something. The amount of innocent people this person put in danger with his stupid decisions made Dino (the bad guy) look like a saint in comparison, and the whole movie I hoped Tobey would either get arrested or crash his car so no one else could be put in danger by his stupidity. There is no logic to any of the decisions he makes. The whole gang of protagonists are basically criminals with zero to below zero intelligence, who make one bad, irresponsible, illogical and non-heroic maneuver after another.
I don't know if this is what the film makers were going for, to show what big egg-heads people who drive like this are, but they succeeded on every level of convincing me the world has gone mad, and that immoral behaviour that puts lives at risk for . . . for what? For some secret illegal race? To prove who's the better driver? To prove who's the bigger man? To win 2.7 million dollars when the cash is spread out enough to make ends meet for a long time? "What?" I kept asking myself. "What the hell are these meat-heads doing?" I've never seen Aaron Paul in anything else, so I don't know what type of actor he is, but he managed to pull of the "Brain-dead, talks in the longest drawl possible, stupid-faced, Pinky/Brain Hybrid, Doh" character I have ever seen. If that's what he was going for, he succeeded. If he didn't want me to like his character at all. He succeeded.
The one star is for the blonde brit, and that is about it.