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Tagline: From gamer to racer.
Genre: Action, Drama, Adventure
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Cast: Archie Madekwe, David Harbour, Orlando Bloom, Darren Barnet, Geri Halliwell, Djimon Hounsou, Daniel Puig, Josha Stradowski, Thomas Kretschmann, Maeve Courtier-Lilley, Emelia Hartford, Pepe Barroso, Sang Heon Lee, Maximilian Mundt, Mariano González, Lindsay Pattison, Théo Christine, Nikhil Parmar, Richard Cambridge, Takehiro Hira, Niall McShea, Akie Kotabe, Sadao Ueda, Wai Wong, Jamie Kenna, Royce Cronin, Harki Bhambra, Joanne Heywood, Cavan Jones, Lloyd Meredith, Hannah Hornsby, Bence Bauer, Ciaran Joyce, John Carter, Niki Faulkner, Rina Saito, Peter Lundie, Andrea Vasiliou, Yoojin Lee, Matthew Hirsch, Jacques Jouffret, Eszter Zavaros, Daijiro Yoshihara, Maya Murofushi, Bianca Bardoe, Selin Cuhadaroglu, Hadia Tarek Mohamed Elsayed Sadek Ghaleb, Kal Sabir, Ayano Yamamoto, Will Buxton, Atsushi Kuwayama
Release: 2023-08-09
Runtime: 135
Plot: 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.Gran Turismo is fun. It's not going to solve the problems of the world or appeal to everyone, just to be clear. It doesn't have a lot to say about the state of the world or humanity or anything like that. It is fun. It is fast (both the cars and the running time...I was never bored). That's about what I've got for it. Ultimately forgettable when the lights come up...it is one of the better video game adaptations out there (low bar, I know).
My one, big quibble is that the movie wants this big, emotional moment near the end to mean something. I felt it didn't do nearly enough of the foundation work to make me really care about it.
The audience was pretty into it, especially the gamer guys sitting in the upper row of the theater.
