“Need for Speed” tends to get unceremoniously left out of the conversation about video game movies.
Released in 2014, the film debuted at the height of Aaron Paul’s post-“Breaking Bad” fame.
Paul stars as Tobey Marshall, a former race car driver turned working-class mechanic from New York whose friend is killed by Tobey’s wealthy rival Dino Brewster (Dominic Cooper) during an illegal street race — a crime that Tobey is wrongly arrested and convicted for.
Upon his release from prison, Tobey sets out to defeat Dino in a San Francisco race.
However, for reasons that are too complicated to get into here, he must do so by first driving across the country in a rare Mustang he helped restore in less than 48 hours.
Also, Imogen Poots is riding shotgun with him.”Need for Speed” plays like a gritty crime-thriller in the vein of the first “Fast & Furious…
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