What a brilliant movie!

Rating: 10/10 (11 April 2006)

One of the best movies I have seen in a long time, "Worlds Fastest Indian" is enthralling from the beginning to the final second. Anthony Hopkins does a brilliant job of portraying Burt Munro, a world motorcycle speed record holder, and someone most people have never heard of.
He brilliantly reminds me of all of the older grey haired "tinkerers" who built racing cars and bikes in Australia and New Zealand in the "old days" who had no other means of achieving their goals other than to make it happen themselves, and who would stop at nothing to realise those dreams.
I could not fault the movie, the photography was sensational, the acting was brilliant, the story was inspiring. The only criticism of the movie as such was the marketing of it, a lot of people would not bother to go because they would think its a movie about racing motorcycles, which it isn't. I only went after checking out the movie's web site, otherwise I may not have bothered. I suspect it will be a big hit on DVD as a lot of people who missed it at the theatre will want to check it out. Hopkins should get an Acadamy Award for this one......