![]() Chris Hemsworth as James Hunt and Daniel Brühl as Niki Lauda are so precisely cast they interchange almost seamlessly with footage of the real Hunt and Lauda toward the end of the film. The movie is beautifully paced and builds to a massive climax then settles with an absolute masterpiece epilogue.Īn intricate part of RUSH is the remarkable casting. RUSH moderates the pacing of on track action and back-story drama with seamless dexterity, a remarkable feat for the writing and editing crew. But in the great craft of making movies for everyone in the audience Howard has built a film that will also thrill your wife or girlfriend. Because RUSH is a film for technical freaks (but not to the exclusion of all others) there is careful attention to on-track technical accuracy. And despite some heavy-handed sepia toning and a lack of real on-track camera work RUSH touches the hot buttons of F1 with incredible sound, vertiginous special effects and visuals. ![]() It does so with excellent technical authenticity and careful reverence- albeit some historical license. RUSH mainlines the classic themes of drama: danger, love, envy, loss, fear and redemption. RUSH follows the story of racing rivals Niki Lauda, an exacting Austrian with the precise demeanor of an engineer and the wildly contrasting playboy Englishman James Hunt, his nemesis in the 1976 Formula 1 racing season.įormula 1 is theater and RUSH is theater about theater. There has never been a film this distinctly excellent and theatrical about any kind of sport. What Gladiator and Saving Private Ryan did for drama and war, RUSH does for racing. There are two kinds of human contests: racing and warfare. It delivers you to the winner’s circle of epic excitement with intimate drama between iconic heroes. Ron Howard’s RUSH is solidly one of the greatest films ever made, and perhaps the single best sporting film ever.
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