Rush Reviews
Little White Lies
For all of his Michael Mann-aping moves here, Howard can't commit to the theme, and lets the ending flounder under a kind of fist- pumping triumphalism that sits uneasily with what came before.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Top CriticMostly a lot of noise and nonsense, a garish enterprise that almost - though not quite - trivializes the tale.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Las Vegas Weekly
Their attempts to defeat each other behind the wheel are often suspenseful, but the depiction of their off-track lives is mostly generic.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
sbs.com.au
Working from an atypically cornball script from top shelf screenwriter Peter Morgan, [Howard and Grazer] offer up a slick but rote sports drama that rarely rises to the fiery level of the real-life personalities it portrays.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
There is plenty of racing footage, which helps, but too much of the time, "Rush" relies on TV announcers to supply context.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Las Vegas Informer
Howard chose the wrong race car driver. Thanks to Hemsworth's natural, easy-going charisma, it is an almost sexy movie with flashes of the lead character's flaws.
Tucson Weekly
Without a doubt, one of the most overrated films of 2013.
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| Original Score: 2.25/5
Film Geek Central
RUSH has some well crafted racing sequences, but the two lead characters are a pair of the biggest jerk faces! Good direction doesn't mean anything when you couldn't care less about its unlikable, egotistical characters.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Film Racket
As racing films go, Ron Howard has crafted a winner. When you consider the other entries in that particular cinematic category, however, that's not saying much.
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| Original Score: 3/5
ColeSmithey.com
[VIDEO ESSAY] Ron Howard's fast-paced portrait of one of Formula One's fiercest rivalries is a hyper-compartmentalized affair.
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| Original Score: C+
RedEye
A collection of strategic choices that has the emotional impact of shopping for tires.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
RogerEbert.com
It was immediately apparent that there was a slick formulaic surface clinging to this cinematic road trip. And for me, that was a turnoff.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Slant Magazine
Ron Howard's by-the-seat-of-your-pants aesthetic makes the slower, darker sequences feel hurried and bland, especially when stacked up next to the racing sequences.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Eclipse Magazine
Why is it we rarely see male dingleberries? Rush feels more like a advertisement for F1 Racing than a movie with characters I cared about.
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| Original Score: C
DustinPutman.com
Rarely, if ever, genuinely thrilling no matter how fast the race cars zoom around the tracks, and the interpersonal scenes are just as pedestrian.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Film Threat
An overrated racing picture that literally goes nowhere fast.
These are classic frenemies; their tale deserves more gas in the tank.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Scotsman
The end result plays like a Fast & Furious film for BAFTA voters.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Mark Reviews Movies
Both of these characters are poorly defined, notable only for their extremes.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Aisle Seat
The best biopics make the viewer understand why the subject is important to them, even if it's not. They find a universality in the topic that sucks you in. Rush never does that.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
