This is one of Ron Howard's best movies and not that than it's one of his best directed movies. I say this as not being a Ron Howard fan, but this movie was done very well. I'm also not a huge fan of race car driving, nor race car driving movies. But this movie had me thoroughly engrossed in the lives of these two men that I actually cared about the races they were racing. Two of Ron Howard's best movies have come on the heals of real life stories: Apollo 13 and this one, Rush. I think he needs to stick to directing real stories, he seems to be very good at them.
There's two sides of this movie happening: each one tells the true story of a race car driver, James Hunt and Niki Lauda. Each person is on the different end of the spectrum. James Hunt is wild, brash, egotistical, a party animal, and addicted to speed. Niki Lauda is scientific, arrogant, thorough in his business of racing, quiet, and addicted to speed.
The movie and the screenplay does a great job of showing about 2 years or so in their lives, when they first met, and started competing against each other. It was some really good editing that weaved their lives together before my eyes and made the car races completely engrossing. Both actors rose to the challenge to play these guys who started out enemies but grew to respect each other as their relationship eventually turned into a sort of friendship as the competition cemented them together. There's some really good scenes between Hemsworth and Bruhl that show the relationship growing between them. Like I said before the movie doe a great job of showing the wildly different life styles both of them had. This is one of the meany things that helps to hold this movie together and keeps the pace of it racing along with the same amount of speed and engrossment as the races themselves.
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