RestrainedCommonAverageOverrated...Formulaic

Rating: 5/10 (1 October 2014)

Director Ron Howard Rarely takes this Film out of Neutral, puts it in Drive and Accelerates this Racing Movie. Or Perhaps More Accurately a Biopic of Formula One Drivers Jimmy Hunt and Niki Lauda and Their 1976 Competition for the World Championship.
If You didn't know it was about Jimmy Hunt and Niki Lauda the Audio in the Movie will Mention it at Least a Million Times or the Director will Show You the Names on the Side of Cars, on Helmets, and Such at Least a Million Times. Just in Case You weren't Paying Attention or were Drifting Thinking about Something Else, Anything Else, Perhaps PlayStation or XBox.
This is what Passes as Great Filmmaking or Storytelling? Oh Yea, its an Intense Tale of Superstar Rivalry but the Movie is Never Intense. It just sort of Stays Parked. When it does Creep Off the Starting Line it Rolls Along at about the Speed of a Sunday Drive.
Boring, Restrained, Common, and Formula Film of a Motor Sport that Most People have Very Little Knowledge and After Watching this will Know just about the Same. It is Hardly Informative, Barely Entertaining, and is a Mega-Budgeted Movie from an Award Winning Director that is Extremely Overrated.
Never Once does the Rivalry Seem Powerful and On the Edge. Odd Considering the Film Makes a Heavy Handed Attempt to Show that the Drivers who Participate in this Type of Death Defying Daring-Do are Next to Insane and Alpha-Male Maniacs that are Thrill Seekers Extraordinaire. If You are Seeking Thrills Don't Expect it Here. Average at Best and Humdrum at Worst.