NEED FOR SPEED 2 MOVIE 2021 DRIVER
Needing cash, Tobey takes a job building a souped-up custom car for Dino Brewster (Dominic Cooper), an arrogant professional driver who also happens to be dating his ex-girlfriend, Anita (Dakota Johnson). The story centers on Tobey Marshall (Aaron Paul), a small town mechanic who street-races muscle cars on the side with a tight-knit group of friends. However, its domestic window seems small, and international returns will likely dictate whether Need For Speed has the sort of franchise legs for which its distributors surely hope. Arriving as it does in theaters in between two other high-profile adapted “name” properties, 300: Rise of an Empire and Divergent (to say nothing of Muppets Most Wanted), there’s reason to believe Need For Speed will vacuum up a solid $28-38 million opening weekend, comprised largely of the same audience that reliably turns out for the Fast and the Furious films - even if this movie marks an informal test as the first racing film after Paul Walker’s death in an off-camera car accident. With more than 20 titles and many, many millions of copies sold, Need for Speed is the most successful videogame racing franchise of all time.
She’s quirky and slightly off-centre - just what a movie like this needs.
Poots, on the heels of a similarly fresh turn in That Awkward Moment, delivers a loose-limbed performance that augurs a continued upwards trajectory. The tonally confused result runs out of gas before the finish line. Alternately slick and over-plotted, the movie tries to awkwardly thread a too-fine needle of dumb-fun revenge and square-jawed memorialisation. A little motivation goes a long way in Need For Speed, a technically polished but narratively bloated and muddled adaptation of the bestselling videogame racing series of the same name.
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