Rush

I don’t watch Formula One. I never felt there was anything exciting about the sport but I had to admit that after watching Rush. Just maybe there is something about the sport after all.

The movie Rush tells the thrilling tale of the great rivalry between playboy English man James Hunt played brilliantly by Thor, sorry I mean Chris Hemsworth and the pragmatic Austrian Niki Lauda played by Daniel Bruhl.

This intense rivalry between the two men could be felt across the screen and I can only imagine that this must be what must be going on between Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. Director Ron Howard was so brilliant that my allegiance to the two main characters kept swinging. At the final car race, I was not even sure who I wanted to win.

Ron Howard takes us into the world of car racing, keeps us glued with visuals of behind the wheel moments of car racing, the tracks burning up as the car racers lapped them up. The danger, the next moment might be your last moment, the moments in the car pits, Ron Howard takes us through it all.

One question by James Hunt sums it all up for the car racers” Is that not what we are in this for, to stare death in the face and defeat it?”

And to think it was all based on a true life story.

Brilliant!