Rush (2013)
Country: GB/GER/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 123m
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl, Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara
Synopsis:
The rivalry between English driver James Hunt and Austrian newcomer Niki Lauda reaches fever pitch during the 1976 world Formula One championship.
Review:
Howard and Peter Morgan's rigorously documented biopic is well anchored in the 1970s zeitgeist and builds its character face-off perhaps oh-so schematically around cussing self-destructive playboy Hunt and blunt, on-the-spectrum Teuton Lauda. However, its very single-mindedness is a virtue for, as in its creator's The Crown series, it lends a sustained dramatic arc to what might have been a mere alternation of repetitive racing sequences with off-track banter. In the end the pair recognise what binds them together more than what separates them, and we thus follow a similar trajectory to that of Morgan's The Damned United.
Country: GB/GER/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 123m
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl, Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara
Synopsis:
The rivalry between English driver James Hunt and Austrian newcomer Niki Lauda reaches fever pitch during the 1976 world Formula One championship.
Review:
Howard and Peter Morgan's rigorously documented biopic is well anchored in the 1970s zeitgeist and builds its character face-off perhaps oh-so schematically around cussing self-destructive playboy Hunt and blunt, on-the-spectrum Teuton Lauda. However, its very single-mindedness is a virtue for, as in its creator's The Crown series, it lends a sustained dramatic arc to what might have been a mere alternation of repetitive racing sequences with off-track banter. In the end the pair recognise what binds them together more than what separates them, and we thus follow a similar trajectory to that of Morgan's The Damned United.
Country: GB/GER/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 123m
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl, Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara
Synopsis:
The rivalry between English driver James Hunt and Austrian newcomer Niki Lauda reaches fever pitch during the 1976 world Formula One championship.
Review:
Howard and Peter Morgan's rigorously documented biopic is well anchored in the 1970s zeitgeist and builds its character face-off perhaps oh-so schematically around cussing self-destructive playboy Hunt and blunt, on-the-spectrum Teuton Lauda. However, its very single-mindedness is a virtue for, as in its creator's The Crown series, it lends a sustained dramatic arc to what might have been a mere alternation of repetitive racing sequences with off-track banter. In the end the pair recognise what binds them together more than what separates them, and we thus follow a similar trajectory to that of Morgan's The Damned United.