Gran Turismo
The ultimate wish fulfillment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won him a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional racecar driver.
- Released: 2023-08-09
- Runtime: 135 minutes
- Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
- Stars: Thomas Kretschmann, Théo Christine, Archie Madekwe, Orlando Bloom, Darren Barnet, David Harbour, Daniel Puig, Sang Heon Lee, Geri Halliwell, Emelia Hartford, Djimon Hounsou, Josha Stradowski, Maximilian Mundt, Nikhil Parmar, Pepe Barroso, Lindsay Pattison, Maeve Courtier-Lilley, Richard Cambridge, Takehiro Hira, Niall McShea
- Director: Neill Blomkamp
Comments
- jimmyd0025 - 17 June 2024
Gran Turismo and Neil Blomkamp don't fit in my mind, but this works!
Sights: Racing visuals are intense. Feels like you're on the track and in the car.
Sounds: Great work with sound editing and racing sound effects.
Steering: Welcome back, Blomkamp! Stay around!
Stage: Well-acted with what they had. Harbour and Bloom are always great, especially Harbour. Hounsou could have had more of a role. Archie Madekwe has a bright future!
Story: Interesting that it's based on a true story. I played the game a lot, but never knew what was behind it all, I'm guessing like a lot of people. Deep and emotional for a movie that could have just been a racing flick.
Standout Scene: Harbour pep talk recovery. Well done, grabbed heart strings, brought gravity. - ma-cortes - 28 April 2024
Un decent film based on a true story about the competitive world of real racing.
Video games and car racing go hand in hand in this exciting film of dreams come true based on a true story of a Gran Turismo player who became a professional driver. Jann (Archie Madekwe) is an avid gamer from Cardiff who spends his days playing Gran Turismo, refusing to succeed in the real world. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, Danny (Orlando Bloom), a marketing manager for the Nissan automobile corporation, is running an advertising campaign and, together with the management of Gran Turismo, hatches a plan to launch a competition inviting gamers to try their luck in real pulse-quickening car races. Needing help organizing an event, Danny turns to Jack Salter (David Harbor), a former racing driver to train the youngsters. The veteran driver will become the coach of the young promises with special attention to the training of Jann. The latter is based on a true character, in fact Jann Mardenborough plays a stunt double in the film for the actor who portrays himself. From gamer to racer !.
This is a breathtaking film, inspiring true story of a peculiar team, following the famous video game franchise at the time, 'Gran Turismo', containing bravura, willpower love, redemption, and motor oil all swirled together. The picture mingles thrills, family drama, exciting car races, and spectacular sequences though won't mean much on little screen TV. It's a typical Blockbuster where reality , plot and dialog have their place, focusing on the drivers who challenge their contenders throughout the international and competitive racing circuits. This is an overwhelming picture with exceptionally fine camera work and great car races sequences and crashes on the circuits, tracks, and several other places. The drivers, the cars, the crashes are the real stars of this movie from the beginning to the end. Based on the unbelievable story, but plenty of clichés, about a a team of underdogs - a struggling, working-class gamer, a failed former race car driver, and an idealistic motorsport exec - who risk it all to take on the most elite sport in the world. The main and support cast are quite good, giving uniformly attractive performances: Orlando Bloom (Lord of the Rings, Pirates of The Caribbean) plays Danny Moore, a Nissan marketing executive who convinces the company to recruit players for the Gran Turismo simulator and transform them into real racing drivers. David Harbor (Stranger Things) is the expert pilot and trainer of the young boys, while Archie Madekwe (Midsommer) is real driver Jann Mardenborough, a Welsh Gran Turismo gamer eager to compete in authentic speed tests, he does impress again in the role of a brave young. Adding other nice secondaries, such as: Djimon Hounsou, pre-Spice Girls: Geri Halliwell , Takehiro Hira, Pepe Barroso, Josha Stradowski, Daniel Puig, among others. All stunts were performed by authentic experts without people damage . A majority of the car stunts in the film were done practically using car shells, and visual effects were widely used. And digital cars were also employed for significant crashes. Many of the film's racing sequences were shot with the Hungaroring, in Hungary, standing in for various different circuits. Most notably the Hungaroring stands in for Silverstone during the GT Academy sequences.
The movie was well made by South African-Canadian film director and screenwriter Neill Blomkamp-. His first and best movie was the successful District 9 , however , being his producer Peter Jackson with his companies Weta Workshorp and Weta Digital that stole the show by means of the breathtaking visual effects, creatures , makeup , Animatrix design make the film results to be a groundbreaking spectacle. Neill Blomkamp is a nice craftsman who is known for the science fiction films District 9 , Elysium and Chappie . He also directed the Demonic and the 2007 short film Halo: Landfall, based on the Microsoft science fiction video game franchise. Rating Gran Turismo(2023): 6/10 . The flick will appeal to car racing enthusiasts.
