I'm not saying that I'm not a fan of car movies, but this movie just feels old and didn't age well. I bet this movie was awesome back in 2014, but I was late to the party 7 years after.
shareThey gave a family of stuntmen the reigns to make a big budget movie. So the only thing people said was good back then was that all the driving was real. (No CG)
So you can see why it bombed and killed Aaron Paul’s chances to make it big as a lead man.
I like it..
shareIt's just a fun type movie. Enjoy the fun of don't.
Every movie doesn't need to be a life changing epic.
Nah, it aged fine. The chase sequences are legit and the Shelby GT 500 Mustang feels like a character all its own.
Unlike the Fast & Furious films, you can actually go back and enjoy Need For Speed. It has a great soundtrack, some inventive action scenes, and just enough character/heart to feel enjoyable. The final race sequence is also pure Need For Speed, seems like it came right out of the game without being too over-the-top.
Now if you want to talk about movies that don't age well, anything after Fast Five is pretty atrocious and ridiculous. Even Fast Five pushed the limits there, but actually having a small truck in a safe being driven around town with actual Dodge Chargers made it quite an entertaining spectacle. But two black dudes rocketing into space? Flying cars across chasms and swinging them like Batman? Surviving impossible explosions and battling submarines on ice using hopped up hypercars? That stuff is all Loony Tunes worthy.
“without being too over the top”?
“Over the top” MEANS excessive. “The top” defines where excess begins.
Can we use language precisely? Why is that such a burden?
It’s not. People are just lazy.
"Too" is an adverb that describes an extent -- the part you quoted, "without being too over the top" was predicated on the adverb of the extent to which the movie was "over the top".
It was obviously over the top, but it was not too over the top. Just over-the-top enough. Meaning, it goes over the excess of what can be deemed realistic, but doesn't push so far that it becomes obnoxious like the newer Fast & Furious films.
Saw it on release and just saw it yesterday and still liked it.
Gee, I wonder what it had that some movies today have that it didn't?
Some forced politically acceptable message/pandering? Can't quite put my hairy finger on it...