Director Ron Howard
Staring Daniel Brühl, Chris Hemsworth, Olivia Wilde
Rated MA
Score 5/6

The story follows their distinctly different personal styles on and off the track, their loves and the astonishing 1976 season in which both drivers were willing to risk everything to become world champion in a sport with no margin for error: if you make a mistake, you die.

Formula 1 movies can either be very predictable when they follow the sports movie stereotypes. Rush however, is very interesting even somebody who is not a fan of formula 1 racing or was even aware of the rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda. Chris Hemsworth gave a brilliant performance as James Hunt showing him as being a very charismatic man. In movies racing car drivers seem to be interesting characters in movies because they are just little bit cracked. There was a line in the movie that appeared in the trailer ‘Don’t go to men who are willing to kill themselves driving in circles looking for normality’ that attracted me to the movie in the first place, and towards the end of the movie I kind of got the impression that there was something more to the rivalry between Hunt and Lauda, and that they needed each other to be the best drivers they could be.

For those of you who are wondering Niki Lauda is to have been pleased with the look of the film and is quoted as having said that it was very accurate and that there were no ‘Hollywood’ changes.