A beautiful film that leaves you feeling good.

Rating: 10/10 (24 December 2005)

I saw this on a plane, and even though it was on that little screen, this film has left me feeling glad I saw it. Antony Hopkins is great as Burt, who has to battle a lot of things to pursue his dream of racing at Bonneville. The film has many positives, showing Burt to have been an open-minded, easygoing guy. There are some funny scenes and some classic one-liners of the sort a guy like Burt would use. There were a few good laughs and a few touching moments. I reckon everybody would get something from this film. It's great to see something that's not full of violence or mean-spirited people. When it comes out here I might even go and see it on the big screen. There are some cool cars and scenery (and sounds) for folk that like drag racing and just general mechanically cool stuff going on. Excellent movie!