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
- Leofwine_draca - 20 June 2024
Could do better
GRAN TURISMO is the latest video game adaptation hitting the screens, and I found the end result to be somewhat average. The story of a gamer from Wales who ends up becoming a car racing champion just didn't particularly interest me, and the guy who plays him, who was so good in SALTBURN, feels somewhat bland here. You do get a grizzled turn from David Harbour and a surprisingly good performance from Orlando Bloom, but nonetheless, there's very little about this one that stands out. Even the racing scenes fail to fire the imagination, as big budget and very occasionally intense as they are. Blomkamp can do better! - agdbolhoeve - 1 May 2024
Good be better
I must say that i enjoyed the movie but..... Shame it's almost complete different than the real story and the fake Le Mans scenes are to obvious.
I understand it must be made more dramatic but this film has just a few points that are accurate.
I real live for example he drove the 24 ours of Dubai already in the beginning. That was already a great achievement. The ("no") cgi is sometimes not as good as I was expecting for a movie nowadays.
For a race enthusiast and people who know some of the real story It can be quite irritating sometimes.
Don't pretend that the story is real when almost nothing is. - barrymw - 28 March 2024
Dull and contrived
It takes a special skill to take an interesting real life story and make it this dull. Everything is just so contrived so that every critical moment in the film goes right to the wire while miraculously managing to avoid creating any tension or drama. It is almost laughably bad in how it portrays the end of every critical race in a way that any motorsport fan knows is very rare at any level of the sport.
It is also astonishing that for a game based around the most accurate racing simulator on the market it is less real than the game.
The dialogue is clunky and the acting, David Harbour aside, is pitiful.
As player of the sim and a fan of motor sport this misses everything good about either.
