Now I am a Formula One fan so whenever there is a film about the sport that comes out then I want to go and see it. I saw the 2010 film ‘Senna’ in the cinema and loved it because it had Formula 1 in it but it was about the rivalry between Aryton Senna and Alain Prost. There has always been talk of a Formula one movie way back in the early 2000’s but it ended up being ‘Driven’ with Sylvester Stallone in a CART movie. When I heard that Ron Howard was going to direct this movie I was worried that the same sort of thing was going to happen but I am happy to report that this wasn’t the case. Rush tells the story of the rivalry between Niki Lauda and James Hunt during the 1976 season. The story starts in 1970 when they were both in Formula 3 and what the film does quite well is portray Hunt and the playboy and Lauda as the serious and focused driver. The central performances were very good. Chris Hemsworth played the pretty boy role well and I thought that whilst Hunt did come close at times...
Reviewing films seen since 2016