Reviews for this film from our members:
- Dragan Antulov @ FAK [Croatian]
- Excerpt: Ako kojim slucajem suvremenu publiku potakne da baci oko na nekadašnje klasike, opravdat ce svoju svrhu postojanja.
- Marina Antunes @ Row Three
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: There are no actual characters or a real story behind Need For Speed. Having said that, the film is not good, but nowhere near a disaster.
- José Arce @ LaButaca.net [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Una de las más populares franquicias de videojuegos salta a la gran pantalla con un resultado no demasiado satisfactorio. Coches espectaculares hay, sí, faltaría más. Pero no hay argumento, ritmo o emoción alguna.
- Kevin Carr @ 7M Pictures
- Excerpt: It is at the core of the film – the character and plot – where “Need for Speed” fails. The characters are painfully shallow, fitting into a cardboard template for a studio action film.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Director Scott Waugh…forgoes CGI for the practical stunts which are the primary draw of a film whose story set ups strain credibility.
- Billy Donnelly @ This Is Infamous
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: The story starts off with one cliché and then keeps them coming.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: The exhilarating, high-octane speed is authentic but the script is incoherent and the stilted acting is abysmal.
- Vadym Grygoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian]
- [New – 8/21/14] | Roderick Heath @ This Island Rod
- Excerpt: It could well stand as the best video game adaptation yet made – a very low bar, admittedly.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Thinks it’s poetical and epic, and the more dramatic it thinks it’s being, the more hilariously histrionic it all is.
- Ben Kendrick @ Screen Rant
- Excerpt: Short Version: Entertaining car race action with a brainless story.
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: “Need for Speed” has practicality on its side and makes those car scenes count. The rest of the film certainly gets the job done if you don’t mind putting your brain in neutral rather than fueling it.
- Oktay Ege Kozak @ Oregon Herald
- Excerpt: I’ve been playing Need For Speed since the franchise’s inception in 1994. That’s right, “I was there at the beginning, man! I liked Need for Speed before it was cool to like Need for Speed, man!” For a franchise of generic street-racing games with over twenty pretty much interchangeable installments so far, when it comes time to “adapt” the “source material” to a feature film, you can pretty much make up any character and story as long as it revolves around racing.
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Piers Marchant @ Sweet Smell of Success
- Brent McKnight @ Beyond Hollywood
- Excerpt: Need For Speed is in desperate need of a haircut.
- Nell Minow @ The Movie Mom
- Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: Perhaps quite unnecessary…
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Excerpt: Sure, there are one-dimensional characters, ridiculous plotting, embarrassing dialogue, a wafer-thin story, and questionable ethics. But who cares about all of that? The filmmakers know why you’ve come to see a film titled Need for Speed.
- Jamie S. Rich @ Oregon Live
- Excerpt: Need for Speed is a difficult movie to assess. It’s hard to tell if it knows exactly what it is, or simply is what it is.
- Amir Siregar @ Flick Magazine [Indonesian]
- Josh Spiegel @ Sound on Sight
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: Hilariously melodramatic muscle-car camp, unbearably loud and extremely stupid.
- Phil Villarreal @ COED.com
