From now on, you can watch an action thriller on Amazon Prime that will be remembered above all for its excellent stunt work and even puts Fast & Furious in the shade.
Need for Speed has been streaming on Amazon Prime since yesterday. The adrenaline-charged video game adaptation starring Aaron Paul in one of his first major roles after Breaking Bad was only partially successful at the box office. Nevertheless, the movie is worth a look. Last but not least, it is extremely entertaining and has a decisive edge over the latest Fast & Furious adventures
Need for Speed on Amazon Prime: The video game adaptation with Aaron Paul surpasses the Fast & Furious action
We’re talking about the action scenes – actually a specialty of Dom Toretto and co. Flinging a safe through the streets of Rio de Janeiro or daring stunts on the highway: the Fast & Furious films are bursting with gigantic action scenes that leave us as viewers with amazement and one question at the end: How on earth is this going to be topped in the next installment?
Ultimately, however, this exhibited gigantism has meant that the more recent entries in the Fast & Furious series have increasingly lost the feeling for the otherwise thrilling movements. By the submarine finale of Fast & Furious 8 at the latest, the action loses all appeal in the face of massive CGI enhancements and turns into interchangeable blockbuster cinema.
Here you can watch the trailer for Need for Speed:
Need for Speed, on the other hand, turns out to be a massive undertaking, because you can feel the cars racing over the asphalt in every shot – and later also whirling. CGI effects are used much more carefully here, for example to retouch crew members and the wire ropes required for furious maneuvers out of the images afterwards. The focus is on the practical stunt work on location
