Kde se dívat na Need for Speed
- Shaydeknight2. dubna 2026Need for Speed starts from a rather thin premise, but that's not really why you'd want to watch this film anyway. I mean, I doubt people play Need for Speed games for the phenomenal storytelling or convincing acting in the cutscenes. The film borrows loosely from Need for Speed: The Run, which wasn't really the strongest title in the series to build from. As a result, it tries to construct a dramatic arc where the setup feels forced. The central tragedy depends on the protagonist making a poor and completely avoidable decision. A little less greed and the entire chain of events collapses. That makes the rest of the plot feel manufactured, and the emotional drive never quite lands. Aaron Paul is reasonably solid. He has a phenomenal voice and it carries a lot of gravitas when he uses it to his advantage, so he winds up bringing some presence to a fairly thin role. The problem is structural. His character creates the situation that drives him into misery, which makes it harder to root for him. The revenge arc then feels obligatory rather than justifiable, and as a spectator, that left me somewhat detached. Imogen Poots is a lot of fun to watch in her role, but again, the speed of the romance (pardon the pun) is way too accelerated. It's as if the scripting people just started making sure all their action film bases were covered. Revenge plot? Check. Broken hearted hero finds new romance? Check. Etc. Then there's Michael Keaton's role. At one point, all these gearheads talk about how his character, Monarch, a race promoter, is anonymous and incredibly mysterious. And then later in the film he basically has a podcast where we can see him online. I don't like when films contradict their own logic. On the other hand, the cars look excellent and the racing sequences are competent. There is a clear effort to ground them in practical driving rather than overwhelming CGI, and that helps. The visual effects are serviceable, and the filmmakers do try to capture the feel of the games, particularly the emphasis on speed and spectacle. So, it's not a bad film. Some of the race sequences are genuinely stunning, and the film makes excellent use of real locations and long runs at speed. The supercars are beautiful to look at, and there's a simple pleasure in watching them pushed hard instead of cut to pieces in the edit. When the film focuses on that, it works. It just never quite builds a story strong enough to elevate it beyond a middle of the road racing movie.
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Need for Speed byl vydán 12. března 2014.
Need for Speed byl režírován Scott Waugh.
Need for Speed je dlouhý 2 h 12 m.
Need for Speed byl produkován John Gatins, Mark Sourian, Patrick O’Brien.
Hrdinou filmu Need For Speed je automechanik a milovník rychlé jízdy Tobey (Aaron Paul). Ve snaze zachránit svou firmu a dílnu se dá dohromady s arogantním ex-závodníkem NASCARu Dinem Brewsterem (Dominic Cooper). Na obzoru je i dobrý obchod, jenže veškeré plány překazí katastrofa při jednom ze závodů a hlavně podraz jeho nového parťáka. Tobey jde neprávem do vězení a podrazák Dino si dál jede jejich byznys jen na sebe. Po dvou letech se Tobey vrací z vězení. Rychlost má stále v krvi a je připraven se pomstít. Rozhodne se Dina dostat v očekávaném závodě, o kterém se na nelegálním okruhu mluví jako o Super Bowlu. Vydává se na neuvěřitelnou akcí nabitou jízdu, aby vůbec stihnul start. Před sebou má celý kontinent, jako nechtěnou společnost pak policii a kupu nebezpečných závodníků, které na něj poslal „jeho kamarád" společně s vypsanou odměnou. Všechno je proti němu, ale ve světě luxusních aut rozhoduje vedle ručičky na tachometru i odhodlání a vůle.
Klíčové postavy v Need for Speed jsou Tobey Marshall (Aaron Paul), Dino Brewster (Dominic Cooper), Julia Maddon (Imogen Poots).
Need for Speed je hodnocen 12.
Need for Speed je film s žánrem Action, Krimi, Drama.
Need for Speed má hodnocení diváků 5.6 z 10.
Need for Speed měl rozpočet 66 mil. US$.
Need for Speed vydělal v kinech 203,3 mil. US$.