An average movie

To be honest, I wasn't expecting much from this flick but since it was available on Netflix , I thought I might as well check it out. Well, at least, it wasn't a shameless copycat of 'The Fast and The Furious' but that's probably the only positive thing about this movie. Seriously,  to make a movie about a video game is usually a bad idea but to make a movie about a race video game was even worse. I mean, I did play one of the 'Need for Speed' games many years ago and I have to admit that it was pretty neat but there was no story involved whatsoever so they had to come up with something but the end-result was long, rather boring and most of the time really preposterous. The most bewildering thing was the impressive cast they managed to get for this movie (Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper, Imogen Poots, Rami Malek, Dakota Johnson, Michael Keaton) and you wonder why they all got involved in such a weak and pretty much doomed to fail project. At least, it did make sense for Aaron Paul who was trying to shake up his image after his breakthrough with 'Breaking Bad' but he wasn't really convincing as some badass racer. Anyway, the whole thing was pretty much a waste of time and I don't think it is really worth a look, except maybe if you really like the genre. 

5/10