. It's a biopic about Mardenborough: a real teenager who was offered the chance to become a professional race car driver based off his excellence in the racing stimulation video game of same name. Packing up his baggage, daddy issues and all, he leaves his life behind in Cardiff, Wales, to compete with fellow sim drivers to drive for Nissan and obtain his professional license to race for a living.
A solid sports movie, after all, is often easy to get sucked into. Rags-to-riches stories are classic because it’s easy to keep rooting for the underdog, especially in a sport where money equates to success an obscene amount of the time. The stakes of racing keep it nail-biting, and Blomkamp does his best to inject that sense of adrenaline into.
The dangers of racing are emphasized so often, though, that when Mardenborough finally finds himself in a horrific crash, the weight of the scene doesn’t stick as much as it should. There’s not an easy way to tastefully re-create an accident that claimed someone’s life, but Blomkamp does his best to showcase the emotional baggage Mardenborough carries with him after the wreckage.
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