Step aside Grand Prix

Rating: 10/10 (1 June 2014)

I first need to admit that I was not aware of the story between Lauda and Hunt prior to watching this movie. The names sounded familiar but I just thought they picked a similar name to real drivers like they usually do in racing movies. In a way, I think the director Ron Howard targeted the movie for viewers like myself as the movie didn't have the typical "Based on a true story" title at the beginning. Only the real pictures at the end was what caused me to think 'could this be true story?' and look it up to my surprise once again that such dramatic story is in fact true.
Again, as I was not aware this was true story, mid way through the movie, I thought, 'wow, this is very well written drama'. This was completely opposite of modern day Formula 1 races and certainly unlike any Hollywood movies these days. Ending was completely unpredictable.
Attention to detail was amazing. All the criticisms about shameful racing movies like Days of Thunder and Driven were well addressed. Crashes were so well reproduced that I thought the crashes in the movie were from actual footage.
But then again, core of any movie should be about story telling. And there's no one better to tell such drama than Ron Howard. I don't give out perfect score often and this is only my second movie to be rated 10 stars on IMDb.com