Need for Speed

Plot synopsis:
Tobey Marshall (Aaron Paul) runs a garage in a small town in upstate New York. He and his friends build and tune performance cars.On a racing web-radio show, DJ Monarch (Michael Keaton) explains that Tobey used to be a local racer, and competed against his main rival, Dino (Dominic Cooper). Dino has since made it big, running in Indy and other professional race series, and now runs a car dealership. Monarch speculates that Tobey was just as good as Dino, but Dino was lucky to make it to the big time.Tobey inherited the garage from his father, but he is now having trouble making bank payments. He and his crew street race their classic muscle cars to scrape together enough for the payments.After winning a race, they celebrate at the local drive-in. Dino shows up, driving a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren. He is accompanied by his girlfriend, Anita (Dakota Johnson). She is Tobey's former girlfriend, and the sister of Little Pete (Harrison Gilbertson), one of Tobey's crew. They exchange some trash talk. There is much animosity between Tobey and Dino.The next day, Dino shows up at the garage. He has the Ford Mustang that Carroll Shelby was building when he died, and is looking for the a shop to complete the work. He knows Tobey's crew are the best for this sort of thing. He intends to sell the car once the work is done, and offers Tobey 25% of the estimated $2,000,000 selling price.The crew try to talk Tobey out taking on the project, but Tobey needs the money.After the work is done, the car is put up for auction at a very glitzy party. Tobey and Dino meet Julia (Imogen Poots), who is a buyer for a well-to-do Brit. She agrees to pay $3,000,000 if the car can go over 230mph, as Tobey claims. Dino is unsure, and prohibits Tobey from proving him wrong.They agree to meet at the track the next morning, so Julia can evaluate the car.Tobey and his crew arrive early, and Tobey is able to get the car up to 234mph. The crew speculate that Dino would never be able to get the car going as fast as Tobey. Julia and her buyer agree to purchase the car for $2.7million.Dino is slighted, and takes Tobey and Little Pete to his uncle's mansion. He challenges them to race his uncle's 3 illegally imported European Koenigsegg Agera cars. If Tobey wins, he gets Dino's 75% of the Mustang deal. If he loses, he gives up his 25%. They race from the house to a bridge over the interstate.During the race, Little Pete gets in front of Dino, and continually blocks him from catching Tobey. Out of frustration, Dino tags Little Pete's car, and it flips down a ravine, onto some rocks, and catches fire. Tobey races back to help (best shot in the movie), but is too late.Dino and his car disappear, and Tobey goes to jail for manslaughter.After 2 years, Tobey is released on parole, and immediately sets out to avenge Little Pete's death. He is able to borrow the Shelby Mustang (with Julia) to enter a winner-take-all race organized by Monarch. They must get to somewhere in California, where the race will start in 2 days. The crew try to scare Julia out of the car with some crazy driving, but she is unfazed. One of the crew, Benny "Call me Maverick" (Scott Mescudi), flies overhead in a Cessna as a spotter, and they make their way across the country.After a spectacular escape from the Detroit police, all state police are notified that a silver Mustang is heading west with Tobey, who has broken parole. Monarch mentions this on his web-radio show, and invites Tobey into the race; his goal is San Francisco. Dino, who is now based in San Francisco, calls the radio show and offers his Lamborghini to anyone who stops Tobey from getting to the race.After a run-in with the police at a gas station, the Mustang is challenged in Utah by a couple of 4x4s wanting Dino's reward. Julia is driving; she initially faces down the attackers (and terrifies Tobey) by driving straight at the Hummer, gambling that the driver has a big car to make up for his lack of balls. However, they are forced off road. They are about to be caught, when Maverick appears in an Apache army helicopter. They are able to hook a rope through the car, and he carries them off over a canyon to the Bonneville Salt Flats, where the rest of the crew are waiting. Maverick is arrested by the Military Police, but has saved the day.They get to San Francisco just in time to register. Tobey threatens Dino, but they agree to sort things out during the race.Heading to a hotel together, Julia and Tobey are broadsided by a truck driven by one of Dino's employees. The car is totaled, and Julia is taken to the hospital. Unless Tobey can find a car, Little Pete's death will not be avenged.Anita has become aware of Dino's tactics, and searches his computer to discover that the Koenigsegg that killed her brother is secretly being stored in a local warehouse. She meets with Tobey, and gives him the location - and her engagement ring from Dino.The next morning, 5 exotic cars are waiting to start the race. Tobey pulls up last. Dino is spooked by seeing Tobey in his car, and further spooked when Tobey gives Dino Anita's ring. They are off, with the California Highway Patrol in hot pursuit. One-by-one the cars crash out, mostly due to CHP attempts to stop the race. Finally, with just Dino and Tobey left, they race side-by-side along the Pacific Highway. Coming up to a corner, Dino misjudges an attempt to tag Tobey. He crashes and rolls as the car catches fire. Tobey sees the finish line ahead, but turns around to pull Dino from the flames. He takes off just as the CHP arrive. They follow him to the finish line, and block him in. Both he and Dino are arrested.With the missing Koenigsegg found, Dino is sent to jail for Little Pete's death. Tobey serves 6 months for street racing, and is released. Julia picks him up from jail in a new prototype 2015 Mustang.During the credits, we see Maverick teaching the other inmates how to twerk.

Tags: revenge, action

Review:
Well when I saw the trailer for the NFS movie, I thought "No just no, it's going to be terrible" - Then I saw the cast of Aaron Paul (Breaking bad) and Dominic Cooper (The History Boys).
I loved Dominic in The History Boys and like most people enjoyed Breaking Bad.But alas, having some aspiring actors isn't going to make a movie.
That's probably where this movie is getting rated anything above a seven, it's from the gear heads (no offense to anybody.) There were some pretty bad ass cars that were nice to look at and some of the action scenes were done nicely (looked nice) aside from feeling hurried.To wrap this up, this is one of the cheesiest and most predictable movies I have ever seen.
and Street Fighter: The Movie serving as a shining example of what not to do.With a well-documented history of failed projects, the expectations surrounding Need for Speed couldn't be much lower - after all, it's based on a decades-old franchise about illegal street racing, featuring a young cast that remains unproven at the box office - but what the film lacks in storytelling and character development is more than compensated for, thanks to the action behind the wheel.Two years after being framed for the death of a friend, Tobey Marshall (Aaron Paul) is released from prison with revenge on his mind.
Taking down Dino will mean beating him at his own game, a top-secret race featuring the world's most elite drivers, and hosted by the mysterious Monarch (Michael Keaton).With less than two days to get from New York to California before the race begins, Tobey embarks on a cross-country trek that features plenty of jaw-dropping moments, made even more thrilling by director Scott Waugh's insistence that all driving stunts be performed by real drivers in real cars.
This adds an extra layer of tension that's sorely missing from the Fast and Furious series (to which Need for Speed is destined to be compared), and the film's best moments come courtesy of E-brake drifts, squealing tires, and near collisions.Despite its paper-thin plot and many, many failed attempts at humor, Need for Speed still works thanks to the generous amount of high-octane action sequences, and the undeniable charisma of Aaron Paul.
Skeptics may not have believed that Paul could distance himself from his Jesse Pinkman persona, but he delivers a strong performance that should put him on the radar for future action roles.Need for Speed is one of the better attempts at translating a popular video game into a big screen experience, with the practical stunts and real-world action serving as a nice counterbalance to Fast and Furious's ever-increasing ridiculousness.
Need For Speed 4/10- I can not think of one movie based off of a video game that I actually liked.
The racing movies have definitely been overused as of late, but Need for Speed is still an enjoyable experience even though it does not really add much to the racing film genre.Now, is this film as good as some of the recent fast and furious films?
The worst parts about the film were probably the parts where it took itself too seriously and try to make you believe that it was the best racing film ever made.Things I would have changed would be certain situations in the movie where it seems like it could never actually happen like a car going airborne and landing perfectly and the car always seems to be fine even if it goes twenty feet in the air at 180 mph.
Aaron Paul is really the only one worth mentioning walking out of the movie and only a few other actors probably could have done as good of a job as he did.This movie is not a must-see film, but if you are bored one day and want to see a decent action movie, Need For Speed won't disappoint.For more of my reviews, go to my website at reviewsbywest.com.
I was expecting this to be hardcore car racing action movie.But this movie, Need for Speed, gave me pleasant surprise.It has action but story is good too.
I'm trying to swallow this movie, but so far I just couldn't.I will be brief because this thing don't deserve more than a few lines from me, first the acting is poor from the beginning to the end, the characters are flat and history doesn't make any sense on the real world, I know that this is a movie based on a game and I may not expect too much, but this movie is a catastrophe.There are several dramatic scenes that should make you feel something about the characters but you don't feel nothing at all, specially because everyone of the dramatic sequences are fallowed by an unrealistic and illogical event, you have to watch it to understand...The races are boring, the action on the movie is kind of lazy, you feel like there are lots of ultra expensive cars running at 40 miles per hour and a Parkinson guy holding the camera.So if you want to get a big disappointment watch Need for Speed.If you don't believe me and want to watch this pearl make something as you watch, do the math and calculate the profit, you will know what I mean when you finish the movie..
From Cooper, who has been very open about his  excitement to be in a racing film since the beginning of his career, to  Paul, who spent months dedicated to stunt driving, Need for Speed is a  film that can best be described by its resident veteran franchise  patriarch Michael Keaton, a film that was "born to ride"..
As one knows, acquiring the name of a driving game franchise immediately legitimizes a movie adaptation, giving unique character needed to differentiate it from Fast and Furious.
Regardless of how thin plot from any Need for Speed games are, the movie manages to trip itself with overly inconceivably ridiculous story and actually failing an already low expectation.
People would do things so numbingly reckless simply because Fast and Furious clearly inspired them, not to mention script and screenplay are done haphazardly, there's little to no humor or emotional investment to be had.Aaron Paul as Tobey Marshall tries to put some sense of personality with gruff voice.
Furthermore, the movie is about two hours, that's a lot of time to drive in obscurity.With idiotic story, poor attempt on comedy and altogether bad acting, Need for Speed ruins yet another video game adaptation and hopefully crashes so terribly, there won't be a sequel..
It makes the action sequences in Fast & Furious 6 look like more of a video game than the basis for this film.
Aaron Paul is very good in this film, while he is nowhere near the caliber of his famous Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad, he still proves that he is an amazing actor with great things ahead of him.
The idea of making a movie out of a racing video game is bad enough; add-in flat characters, ridiculous dialogue and complete lack of excitement and what's left is worse than imagined.
first of all i must say about the plot.there is nothing special.the plot is really predictable.plot is really thin and characters have nothing to do except resting their ass in cars.none of the actors will make an impression (including most acclaimed Aaron Paul) .and this film is the worst 3D film i saw.its converted to 3d just to make some more money.some races are splendid but weak plot spoiled everything.cars used are costly but you can miss some manufactures like Ferrari.music is OK.film is nicely adapted from game.you can see exactly a game but not the film.film run time is dragged.and writing is not so impressive.the only thing which impressed me is stunts performed without graphics used.crashing scenes are well executed.
Need for SpeedThe death of Fast and Furious star Paul Walker casts an eerie light over Dreamworks racing movie Need for Speed: early on, when one of his friends is burned to death in a high-powered sports car, high-flying street-racer Tobey (Aaron Paul) is brought back down to earth, but only for a few moments.
This numbskull quest is devoid of any real point: finger-pointing Tobey accuses Dino of being irresponsible, but no-one in the film ever questions whether taking part in illegal street-racing such is a good idea in the first place.It's just one of a series of idiocies, not the deftly enjoyable ones featured in the Fast and Furious ones, but ones that leave you wondering what's going on.
And if he's in such a rush that he simply cannot stop, why does the next scene see him pulling into a gas station?The laws of physics have also taken a battering in the Fast and Furious Films, but Need for Speed doesn't have the same testosterone charm: when a sports car drives directly at a humvee and the humvee swerves to avoid the crash, then any credibility has gone out the window.
Even if you can see past this fact, regrettably there remains a lot to be desired in this somewhat underwhelming thriller.Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul takes on the lead role of Tobey Marshall, a talented racer in his spare time, who runs a car repair shop.
Upon his release he sets off on a revenge mission, and though breaking his patrol, he embarks on a cross- country trip alongside Julia (Imogen Poots) to take part in a prestigious contest, and seek vengeance against Dino in the only way he knows how – a street race.Naturally, comparisons to the Fast & Furious franchise are inevitable, and when doing so, let's just say this doesn't come out on top.
This falls carelessly between, and though this may sound like an peculiar thing to say, but in order to be a better film, Need for Speed almost needs to be worse.Meanwhile the car chases themselves are mightily impressive, making for some gripping sequences with really well choreographed stunts implemented.
Conversely, Poots does little to offend, though her casting is somewhat unusual, and following on That Awkward Moment, if she's not careful she's going to fall into the stereotype of just becoming a generic, vacuous, British love interest in Hollywood movies – and she's better than that.Need for Speed is incredibly conventional and prosaic, with so little innovation in this title, as a film we've seen countless times before.
Go into this movie expecting a great story line with a romantic twist, you will quite simply hate it.Need For Speed is different to any other racing movies.
Much as I am sure there will be those with heaps of praise for this film, I will not be one of them.A framed racer is just released from prison and already plans for revenge unaware that those who set him up, plan to do so again.This whole 'package' of young men with lots of testosterone where driving fast cars provide an outlet to channel their impulses will undoubtedly impress certain audiences but left me blissfully indifferent.Shallow storyline, mediocre dialogue, highly exaggerated development that borders the impossible equal a dull time at the big screen.
aside of the millions of dollars paid to Michael Keaton to explain the obvious throughout the movie, and the hard attempt of the kid from Breaking Bad break into the film industry, the rest are probably all classmates, relatives and random people trying to act.
As a matter of fact, not much after it started there were a few CG scenes a la "hey, you must notice it's based on a video game" that I don't know how to categorize as they are just complete non-sense and made me think it had been done by the same guy who made the "Doom" movie...
Well, IMDb has never been my reference when it comes to "let's see how cool this movie is" cause the ratings from users are usually insane, anyway - having the 3 "Lord of the Rings" movies among the top 20 of all times is just a little too much for me.P.D: dunno if anyone had this feeling, but the fact of them laughing and having fun when driving in wrong direction making other cars come out the road, fly and get destroyed was pretty disturbing...
Plus the storyline is so standard and they use a video game script that makes this movie completely mess.All the casts here including Aaron Paul and Michael Keaton are stuck in this horrible script though they seems have tried their best to save the movie.
Need For Speed is another bad video game movie.
The cars, the races, the stunts, the chases...all top-notch and EXCITING.The characters and acting...loved the two leads, Aaron Paul was great and pulled off the "car guy" role very convincingly.
Remember this based in a video game and his place and his role fits in that context...as does "Liar One".The story was pretty good...of course money is one of the biggest motivations, and it's in there...but the movie attempts to go deeper and provide a more personal motivation for the main's actions and I think they pulled it off quite well...I could feel the emotions of the characters in certain scenes, so the story and the actors definitely did the job.Great movie for car lovers and fans of the video game series...I can see how someone not into those things might not be impressed though.
I'm rating the movie on what it tries to be, which is a movie based on a series of car racing video games and in that respect I cannot think of anything they could have done better.
It is near impossible to write a coherent review on 'Need For Speed" (2014), considering how torn I am between what I liked and those aspects that put this movie in contention for hardest movie to watch since 2010.Let me start by saying I love exotic cars, chase scenes, crashes and since the mid 90's have been a huge fan of the Need For Speed games.
All in all, it gives you nothing of value except two good hours of great visuals, beautiful cars you can only ogle at in movies or games, amazing action sequences and some pretty nasty car stunts, though, sadly, not too much of those.
Couldn't understand how Imogen's character went from savvy biz to dreamy ditz.Elements of the game like the build-up to the final race, police car chases, attempted roadblock (the police car-pile driver was really a low-point), helicopter surveillance, etc were featured.The movie was engrossing and I didn't feel the length of the two hours.
Best on the best selling Need for Speed video game franchise, Need for Speed was going to be a bad idea for a movie the moment a script was produced to be filmed.
The acting is nothing special, Aaron Paul sounded like he was channeling Christian Bale's Batman voice.Apparently these cars are also very hard to destroy, all that they are put through and most of them still look immaculate.The only highlight of the film, minimal as it is, is Michael Keaton, who seems to just be playing Beetlejuice but without the make-up.Save yourself the time, don't watch this car wreck!.
Like, none of the versions of the game had any serious plots that could be used to make a movie, so the makers basically had complete freedom to come up with their own story to sprinkle around the racing scenes.
Like another reviewer said, they'd have been better off releasing it as just a collection of random racing scenes(which were well shot by the way).Like my summary states, I can't believe I had high expectations out of this, but in my defense, I assumed the owners of a pretty successful game would have put more thought into who they were selling their franchise to.Aaron Paul tried hard, but he had pretty much nothing to work off of and I feel for him.
Naturally one would go into a movie that's based on a video game centered around illegal street racing expecting it to be filled with stock characters, bad dialog and plot holes you could drive a space shuttle through.
Being based off of a racing video game, I wasn't expecting Need for speed to have an outstanding plot.
What I was expecting was a fun to watch action movie which showcased some amazing looking cars and had some intriguing race scenes.
This film tells the story of a great car mechanic, who races against his evil billionaire adversary for the revenge of the death of his best friend.If I was not told of the fact that "Need For Speed" is a computer game adaptation, I certainly would not have guessed it.
Jaw-dropping stunts abound, most of which were filmed for real and not created with special effects.As it turns out, the surprising joy of Need For Speed comes in neither its rather convoluted plot (quite laboured), nor in its numerous races (good fun but rather like watching someone else play a video game for a couple of hours).
The plot will happen exactly as you would expect for a movie like this.Aaron Paul was great as Tobey Marshall.
I was sure that this movie will be awful but not that much it was a complete disaster first of all the actors or i must say the actor because for me the only actor in the movie was Aaron Paul i like that guy in Breaking Bad he was good there but after Need For Speed i don't want to see that guy in other movie his acting in that movie was level Latino TV Series what ever i can take the weak acting but the story line and plot was just ...........
Need for Speed was one of the best racing movie I've ever seen.
Also if you are a need for speed video game guy, this movie will make your day..
It could probably be an entertaining film for non- fans of the game, which enjoy any movie, be it good or bad.