RUSH MOVIE REVIEW

ABOUT FILM

* Cinema Release: 20 September 2013 (USA)
* Genre: Action Sports Adventure Biography Drama
* Directed by: Ron Howard
* Studio / Distributor: Universal Pictures
* Starring:
- Chris Hemsworth as James Hunt
- Alexandra Maria Lara as Marlene Knaus
- Daniel Bruhl as Niki Lauda
- Olivia Wilde as Suzy Miller
- Natalie Dormer as Gemma
- Christian McKay as Alexander Hesketh

STORY 

  Ron Howard's wildly enjoyable racecar drama "Rush" doesn't succeed because it's a solidly built sports drama -- although it is most assuredly that. Rather, it is because it's also a smartly assembled human drama, one fueled as much by surprising moments of heart and humor as it is by high-octane, pedal-to-the-metal sports action.

As a result, Howard's film, while taking place on the Formula 1 racing circuit of the 1970s, is by no means a film solely for gearheads. Oh, they'll enjoy the racing scenes and the chest-rattling, ear-splitting drone of the engines as the cars tear around the track, a singular sensory assault that somehow manages to be both a roar and a scream at the same time. But those same gearheads -- and the non-gearheards sitting beside them -- will find themselves responding just as strongly to the film's off-the-track scenes, the sports-as-life moments that help "Rush" transcend the sports genre.

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