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Battlebus imprisoning me \m/ >.< \m/
UPDATE:
Film Stories is a non-clickbait site, their review is up: https://filmstories.co.uk/reviews/gran-turismo-review-neill-blomkamps-raciest-film-yet/
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https://www.eurogamer.net/gran-turismo-film-review-a-marketing-exercise-filled-with-contrived-drama
The Guardian - 1/5
https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...racer-in-super-bland-ode-to-product-placement
Top Gear
https://www.topgear.com/car-news/mo...-review-we-watched-it-so-you-really-dont-have
Film Stories is a non-clickbait site, their review is up: https://filmstories.co.uk/reviews/gran-turismo-review-neill-blomkamps-raciest-film-yet/
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https://www.eurogamer.net/gran-turismo-film-review-a-marketing-exercise-filled-with-contrived-drama
At the start of Gran Turismo, our hero, a young man named Jann Mardenborough (Archie Madekwe), receives a package. Clearly, whatever is in the box is of Holy importance, as he actually kneels down to open it. Has he ordered a saintly relic, something to aid his evening prayers? A splinter of the True Cross, perhaps? He opens the lid, and we see the object of his worship: a steering wheel. Not an actual steering wheel, mind, but the plastic variety that you plug into a console to guide a racing game. For Jann, of course, drawing that distinction - between the virtual and the real - would be blasphemy.
As it surely would for Kazunori Yamauchi, designer of the Gran Turismo games on which this strange movie spins. At a party one night, Jann sits gloomily in the corner on his phone, watching videos of Gran Turismo 7. A young woman, Audrey (Maeve Courtier-Lilley), comes over and takes an interest, asking him about the game, to which he replies, "Technically it's not a game, it's a racing simulator."
The Guardian - 1/5
https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...racer-in-super-bland-ode-to-product-placement
Product placement has rarely been as chronic or concussive as it is in Gran Turismo, inspired by the real-life experiences of British teenager Jann Mardenborough (played here by the sweetly gauche Archie Madekwe), whose PlayStation proficiency won him the chance to compete as a real-life racing driver in GT Academy, a Nissan-sponsored promotion intended to get the public loving cars again. Before you can say “Ulez”, he is taking private jets and eating sushi (“This is amazing!”) while glamorous destinations flash by on screen: Tokyo! Dubai! Cardiff!
Rather than embrace the video-game that inspired it, the film is a simulation of cinema featuring a reliably underwhelming cameo from Geri Halliwell Horner
Top Gear
https://www.topgear.com/car-news/mo...-review-we-watched-it-so-you-really-dont-have
But in your face, Dad, because Jann wins a magical golden ticket to a computer games boot camp organised by a mad twitching Legolas and an extended montage where that gruff bloke from Stranger Things shouts abuse at teary eyed gamers from a helicopter. Ginger Spice is in the film too, playing Jann’s mum, which mostly involves reacting to news footage of her son’s races from her couch in Cardiff, like a sort of cinematic Gogglebox. Her powerhouse line in the first half of the movie is “Well, these lentils are nice”, which an actor of any calibre would be pushed to sell.
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