Stayed home from $5 Tuesday Guys' Movie last week. Nothing I really wanted to see, and The Wife was waving the HunnyDoo List.
Before I start on this week's, though, I gotta tell ya, I'm not a motor racing fan. Not my cup of tea.
But "Rush" is a guys' must-see. Why?
· Because, for one thing, it starts Thor, Chris Hemworth, as '70s Formula 1 racing legend James Hunt. (He actually is a pretty good actor here!)
· Because it's a Ron Howard movie. Always a good bet, but even better now that he seems to have outgrown his syrupy sweetness.
· Because "Rush" has great car crashes — and how could a movie about driving really, really, really fast NOT be a great guys' movie?
The flick tells of the rivalry between Briton Hunt and Austrian Niki Lauda (Daniel Bruhl, actualy from Spain), probably their generation's premier F-1 drivers. Hunt was an aggressive womanizing free spirit; Lauda, his stick-in-the-mud antithesis. In 1976, they battled each other for the world championship.
The film's downside includes no shootouts, guys, only cars blowing up, and no gratuitous sex. The racing scenes, though, more than compensate.
Moms: Pretty tame language by today's "standards" (assuming today has standards). And the story holds your interest.
I give it only 1 knuckle sandwich — but wait! There's more! It gets 3 inkwells for storyline, a director's chair because it's Ron Howard, and 10(!!!) checkered flags for the racing stuff.
This is a goood movie! Guys, you'll love it. I promise...!
