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The villain of the piece is a guy named Dino Brewster (because that’s a name befitting of a bad guy). He wants them to restore the Mustang that Ford and Caroll Shelby were building when Shelby died. Dino is a big shot, and left the small town Tobey and he lived in together to go race Indy cars. Dino’s got an ego to uphold here.

After the car is successfully restored and sold to an eccentric billionaire thanks to Tobey’s superior driving skills, Dino challenges him to a race in some exotic Koenigseggs because he can’t leave that dent in his pride alone. The young kid in Tobey’s crew, Pete, decides to come along, and after a white-knuckle race, Pete is killed in a firey, car-flipping crash by Dino who rammed him off the road in order to win.

Dino frames Tobey for the death, and Tobey goes away for a seemingly short two-year sentence for vehicular manslaughter and grand theft auto.

Tobey gets out and borrows the billionaire’s Mustang to travel to and hopefully win a secret race happening on the other side of the country. Cue a series of insane car chases and races reminiscent of Need For Speed: The Run with his female sidekick, Julia, in tow.


Despite the fact that it sounds formulaic, don’t be fooled into thinking that you’ll sit down in your seat and watch EA and Dreamworks try to remake the Fast And The Furious with more Ford product placement. It’s a completely different film.

The producers, director and writers knew that the Fast And The Furious “films” existed and decided to take a left turn when approaching the racing movie genre. Sure, the characters are still one-dimensional and the dialogue is at times laughably bad (Michael Keaton has some awful things to say in this movie), but the races are so much better in Need For Speed than in most of the driving movies we’ve had in the last decade.

Every race or chase sequence has elements of the epic car chases throughout film history, like the San Francisco hill attacks in Bullitt, the camera angles of The French Connection and the element of danger when it comes to traffic and corners from the Need For Speed games. When the racers in The Fast And The Furious drive, they make it look effortless and loaded with obvious CGI. The races in Need For Speed feel intense and almost visceral. Like you’re in the back seat clinging on in the corners yourself.

The cars are also fantastic in this movie. Whereas the Fast And The Furious movies are obsessed with Japanese imports and American muscle, the cars in Need For Speed are straight out of the exotic posters on your bedroom wall: the McLaren P1, Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, Lamborghini Sesto Elemento, Koenigsegg Agera R and more all get an awesome run in this movie.