By Gary

The unbelievable true story of a gamer who joins a real world racing team to see if the step can be made.

Based on the unbelievable, inspiring true story of a team of underdogs – a struggling, working-class gamer (Archie Madekwe), a failed former race car driver (David Harbour), and an idealistic motorsport exec (Orlando Bloom) – who risk it all to take on the most elite sport in the world.

This film is very fast pace and fans of the video game series or racing will probably love this.

I can’t speak to how the movie translates the game, but they creatively incorporate some cool visuals.

It helps it feel like a video game movie as opposed to a movie about a video game. The race scenes are awesome, you really feel like you’re there. I like the cast, with the three leads being the obvious standouts and there are some really heartfelt moments.

If you’re expecting Fast and Furious, don’t, sure it’s full of speed and its high octane, but it’s more a triumph against the odds sort of story, with Jann the central character, a guy from Wales, taking on the elite at their own game, in what is an elite sport.

Some very good use of special effects, the crash scenes in particular look amazingly realistic. There’s also some wonderful location work too, they really did make use of several world-wide locations.

Is this the most random soundtrack ever, I never thought Kenny G, Black Sabbath and Enya would feature together in the same cinema, let alone the same movie.

Hard to imagine it’s based on a true story, but credit where it’s due, it translated into a fine movie.

You don’t have to be a fan of the video games or racing but I guess it may have helped to have some of that knowledge, I myself might have played the game once when I was younger, but I am far from a fan.

I enjoyed this coming-of-age story which reminds me of Billy Elliot.

My Rating: 7/10