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Ron Howard returns to his high-speed roots to explore the 1970s Formula One rivalry between Chris Hemsworth's James Hunt and Daniel Bruhl's Niki Lauda.

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Ron Howard returns to the high-speed roots of his directorial debut, Grand Theft Auto (albeit with a budget probably a hundred times bigger), with Rush , an involving Formula One racing drama centered on the nasty mid-’70s rivalry between two drivers who couldn’t have been more dissimilar. Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Bruhl excel as, respectively, British wild man and hedonist James Hunt and Austrian by-the-books tactician Niki Lauda . Limited American interest in European Formula One means Universal won’t be seeing anything resembling Fast & Furious business at the box office, but international returns could be very substantial.

Most modern-era car racing movies, from Grand Prix and Le Mans to Days of Thunder , have been far stronger at portraying the excitement on the track than at developing interesting downtime drama among the characters. But rather the reverse is true with Rush , which offers perfectly coherent racing coverage but devotes far more time to exploring the personalities of two drivers who represented behavioral polar extremes and drove each other to distraction.

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It’s a credit to Peter Morgan ‘s screenplay that one can come to understand and sympathize with both of them, even though there are many reasons one might not easily warm to either one. Just as young ladies threw themselves at the great-looking Hunt literally by the thousands (one line describes his sexual prowess as “immortal”), female viewers might be persuaded to attend a racing film simply because of Chris Hemsworth, who looks fantastic with his long blond locks and ready smile and has finally found a role he can really score with in every sense of the word.

His looks and devil-may-care attitude aside (at one point he ventures that women like race car drivers because of “our closeness to death”), Hunt is the kind of figure who dares you to take him seriously; he stays up all night before races, never abstains from sex and is seen taking swigs of booze right before races. Purists and the more serious-minded are bound to disapprove of this guy, as they did in real life.

Offering a 180-degree contrast is Lauda, who comes from a conservative Viennese background but defies his family by taking up racing. He buys his way on to teams and is meticulous about engine specs and team discipline. An all-work-and-no-play guy, he cares nothing for ingratiating himself with his team members, and his abrupt marriage proposal to the pragmatic and supportive Marlene ( Alexandra Maria Lara ), formerly a girlfriend of film star Curt Jurgens , feels more like a business venture than a love match.

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Physically, Hunt taunts Lauda as “my ratty little friend,” and with a pasty brown face and protruding teeth, the Austrian, awfully well played by Daniel Bruhl, really does resemble a rodent. He’s a chilly character, for sure, brusque and reserved; as the guy behind the wheel, he’s not asking for love from his Ferrari team, just maximum effort to put him in a position to win the F1 championship, which he does in 1975.

With his former team falling apart, Hunt, who has married high-maintenance blond beauty Suzy Miller ( Olivia Wilde ), is desperate to do “whatever it takes to beat that prick,” ultimately hitching on with McLaren despite their wariness over his erratic reputation. Presenting atmospheric snippets of the 1976 season’s early races in Sao Paulo, South Africa, Spain and Monaco, the film creates an impressionistic rather than dramatic picture of a racing season that sees Lauda jump ahead in points.

Morgan develops a dovetailing emotional dynamic between the drivers when, after rubbing it in with Hunt that his wife has left him for actor Richard Burton , Lauda finally marries Marlene, only to find that happiness seems to be a detriment to his driving. By contrast, Hunt’s edgy turbulence in the wake of his very public embarrassment motivates him to drive faster.

The turning point comes at the Nurburgring track in Germany, aka The Graveyard, notorious as the most dangerous course on the F1 circuit. The rainy conditions compel Lauda to propose cancelling the race, but Hunt leads the move to vote it down. Sure enough, the meticulous Lauda then has a terrible accident; he’s stuck in his burning car for more than a minute and suffers terrible burns to his head and lungs.

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The recovery, shown in more than sufficient detail, is terribly painful; his lungs must be vacuumed, and trying to put a helmet on is purest torture. Lauda both blames Hunt for the accident and credits him for motivating him to get back on the track an amazing 42 days later, but not before Hunt pummels a tasteless journalist who asks Lauda at a press conference if he thinks his wife will stay with him now that he looks so bad.

In Lauda’s absence, Hunt has made up a lot of points, but the Austrian puts on an amazing display, so that the championship will be determined in the final race of the season, in Japan within view of Mount Fuji — and in heavy rain.

In the wake of the season, the two men remain at odds — they are far too different and too competitive to ever be friends — but they do understand each other in a way that perhaps only fellow professionals can. We’ve never gotten particularly close to these very distinct personalities, but they’re interesting and lively company for the two hours they’re onscreen due to the sharply etched performances of the two leads.

That’s more than you can say for anyone else in the film, as Morgan hasn’t bothered to add more than one dimension to any of the other characters nor to provide especially memorable dialogue.

The racing footage is serviceable enough, although there are no attempts at the sorts of amazing shots or extended bravura driving sequences that previous filmmakers have sometimes pulled off.   Rather than brilliantly clear, Anthony Dod Mantle ‘s cinematography has something of the grubby visual quality of ’70s films — particularly of international co-productions of the time, which is sort of amusing.

It’s startling to be reminded of how flimsy and delicate the cars of the time looked and of how common it was for drivers to be badly injured or killed. The very fine and successful 2010 documentary feature Senna underlined that fact and may actually have been an impetus for this film’s creation.

Venue: Toronto Film Festival Opens: Sept. 20 (limited); Sept. 27 (wide) (in U.S.) (Universal) Production: Revolution, Working Title, Imagine Entertainment Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Bruhl, Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara, Pierfrancesco Favino, David Calder, Natalie Dormer, Stephen Mangan, Christian McKay, Alistair Petrie Director: Ron Howard Screenwriter: Peter Morgan Producers: Andrew Eaton, Eric Fellner, Brian Oliver, Peter Morgan, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard Executive producers: Guy East, Nigel Sinclair, Tobin Armbrust, Tim Bevan, Tyler Thompson, Todd Hallowell Director of photography: Anthony Dod Mantle Production designer:   Mark Digby Costume designer: Julian Day Editors: Dan Hanley, Mike Hill Music: Hans Zimmer

Rated R, 123 minutes

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James Hunt and Niki Lauda, two extremely skilled Formula One racers, have an intense rivalry with each other. However, it is their enmity that pushes them to their limits. James Hunt and Niki Lauda, two extremely skilled Formula One racers, have an intense rivalry with each other. However, it is their enmity that pushes them to their limits. James Hunt and Niki Lauda, two extremely skilled Formula One racers, have an intense rivalry with each other. However, it is their enmity that pushes them to their limits.

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• Trivia When Niki Lauda first saw 'Rush' he said "Sh*t! That's really me."
• Goofs Throughout the film Niki Lauda 's nationality is shown in the stats abbreviated as AUS - this would be the international code for Australia. Austria's code is AUT.

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Racing biopic has complex characters, lots of iffy behavior.

Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that Rush is a biopic from director Ron Howard about two 1970s Grand Prix champions, James Hunt and Niki Lauda. It depicts their athletic skill and determination, but it's also about their dark sides: their excesses, dirty tricks, and personal failures. In other words, they aren't…

Why Age 17+?

Racing is all about sponsors, and many corporate logos are (realistically) on di

Language is very strong, including fairly frequent uses of "f--k," "s--t," "c--t

The main character, James Hunt, has sex with many, many women over the course of

The most intense sequence takes place when Niki Lauda suffers a fiery crash and

The main character is always sober before a race, but afterward, he drinks a gre

Any Positive Content?

Two race-car drivers discover that rivalry increases their drive for competition

The two main characters are real-life champion race-car drivers, and they come w

Products & Purchases

Racing is all about sponsors, and many corporate logos are (realistically) on display throughout, including Marlboro cigarettes, Goodyear tires, Coca-Cola, Levis, Shell, and STP. One character drives for Ferrari. There's an early speech about trying not to use sponsors, but eventually this idea goes by the wayside.

Language is very strong, including fairly frequent uses of "f--k," "s--t," "c--t," "bulls--t," "balls," "prick," "a--hole," "ass," "hell," "crap," "Christ" (as an exclamation), and "turd." A middle finger gesture is used.

Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Language in your kid's entertainment guide.

Sex, Romance & Nudity

The main character, James Hunt, has sex with many, many women over the course of the movie. Some sex scenes are shown, and others are implied. He's shown kissing women and in bed with them. Some female toplessness is shown. Niki stays with one woman throughout, and she's also shown topless.

Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Sex, Romance & Nudity in your kid's entertainment guide.

Violence & Scariness

The most intense sequence takes place when Niki Lauda suffers a fiery crash and burns in his car for almost a minute. In the hospital, he's shown burned and scarred and later with fresh skin grafts on his face. There's also a horrible procedure in which a tube is shoved down his throat to suck black gunk out of his lungs. Several other crash sequences are shown, with blood and broken bones.

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Drinking, Drugs & Smoking

The main character is always sober before a race, but afterward, he drinks a great deal (champagne, various kinds of hard liquor), sometimes to drunkenness. He also smokes cigarettes frequently, and he and other characters smoke pot. One character smokes a cigar.

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Positive Messages

Two race-car drivers discover that rivalry increases their drive for competition -- not necessarily the healthiest lesson, as it leads to destructive behavior. On the surface, this is also a movie about fame and success and how, if they're allowed to run rampant, they can destroy relationships. Success is shown as a big trophy, some champagne, and lots of parties, as well as the realization that it's fleeting.

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The two main characters are real-life champion race-car drivers, and they come with a certain amount of hero worship. Their athletic skills are impeccable, and they have an intense drive to succeed, but their behavior is often destructive and disrespectful. But it's shown that the men's relationship is, on a deeper level, complicated and respectful.

Parents need to know that Rush is a biopic from director Ron Howard about two 1970s Grand Prix champions, James Hunt and Niki Lauda. It depicts their athletic skill and determination, but it's also about their dark sides: their excesses, dirty tricks, and personal failures. In other words, they aren't anywhere near the squeaky-clean role models parents might be hoping for. The movie includes several car crashes, with blood and bones shown, and a very intense sequence in which one character is badly burned. Language is very strong, with uses of "f--k," "a--hole," and "c--t." Hunt sleeps with many women, and some female toplessness is shown (Lauda's girlfriend is also shown topless.) Hunt is also shown drinking to excess, smoking cigarettes, and briefly smoking pot. Finally, it's no secret that racing is all about merchandizing, and many brand names are shown throughout, including Coca-Cola and Marlboro cigarettes. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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That Common Sense couldn't find any positive messages in these two characters makes me wonder...

Not iffy 17 lol csm rating, what's the story.

In the early 1970s, James Hunt ( Chris Hemsworth ) rises through the ranks of professional car racing, exhibiting a unique daring and charisma on the track. Meanwhile, the decidedly uncharismatic Niki Lauda (Daniel Bruhl) splits with his respectable family and uses money and influence to buy himself into the racing game. Hunt and Lauda immediately become rivals -- a rivalry that helps spur them to new heights of greatness. But before long, Lauda's conservatism and Hunt's recklessness start to add up. Hunt's wife ( Olivia Wilde ) leaves him, while Lauda's relationship with Gemma (Natalie Dormer) becomes stronger. But when Lauda suffers a terrible accident, Hunt has only a short amount of time to make up enough points to become champion.

Is It Any Good?

Working with the great screenwriter Peter Morgan, with RUSH, director Ron Howard creates his best and grittiest movie since the duo's Frost/Nixon (2008), or even Apollo 13 (1995). Perhaps Howard was inspired by his earliest days as a filmmaker, working for B-movie maven Roger Corman and making another car-centric movie, Grand Theft Auto (1977). In any case, Howard seems recharged, delving into complex, multi-dimensional characters. It would be easy to peg the handsome, chiseled Hemsworth as the hero of any movie. But here he's just as flawed as the would-be villain, played by Bruhl with a great deal of intelligence and sympathy. As with any biopic, the supporting players tend to take a back seat to the leads. But the good news is that the characters are interesting enough to overcome Howard's over-excited attempts to supercharge the racing sequences. Rattling footage from between the wheel wells and the road doesn't exactly capture the feel of a race, but many other moments do the trick.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

Families can talk about whether Hunt and Lauda are role models . They're Grand Prix champions, but they're also complex people with weaknesses and dark sides. Does this make them bad people?

Could Rush have been made without the violent crashes and their bloody aftermath? Is this what people really watching racing to see? Why or why not?

Why does Hunt turn to sex , alcohol , and smoking when he's feeling victorious? Does the movie glamorize these things? Are there any realistic consequences?

What's the difference between "likable" Hollywood characters and the characters shown in this movie?

Movie Details

• In theaters : September 20, 2013
• On DVD or streaming : January 28, 2014
• Cast : Chris Hemsworth , Daniel Bruhl , Olivia Wilde
• Director : Ron Howard
• Inclusion Information : Female actors
• Studio : Universal Pictures
• Genre : Drama
• Topics : Cars and Trucks , History
• Run time : 123 minutes
• MPAA rating : R
• MPAA explanation : sexual content, nudity, language, some disturbing images and brief drug use
• Last updated : July 14, 2024

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SEX/NUDITY 8 - A man at a medical clinic has sex with a nurse: we see his bare chest as we see the woman from the back when he sits her on an exam table and she leans back toward the camera (the scene becomes blurry and sex is implied); the camera then cuts to a short shower scene in which we see the man's bare back as he leans into a woman who has her back against the wall (we see her bare breasts) and he thrusts, her eyes roll, and the scene ends. ►  On an airplane a man sees a newspaper headline in which he is quoted as saying: "Marriage didn't suit my lifestyle" and we then see him in the airplane bathroom having sex with a stewardess while staring at himself in the mirror; she is shown leaning back on the sink while he is shown thrusting and we see one of her bare ankles, part of her bare abdomen and hear her grunt (he appears to be fully clothed). A man is seen in a couple of scenes under a sheet in bed, covered to the waist, but is shirtless and we see his bare chest; beside him in these scenes is an unknown woman and we see her hair, one arm and one lower leg sticking out from the covers (sex is implied). ►  A man and a woman marry in a civil ceremony and honeymoon at a hotel: in the pool at night they both wear only Speedo bottoms and we see the woman's breasts as they kiss briefly once. A nude man and a nude woman walk away from the camera in a bedroom scene (bare buttocks are seen). After winning a world racing championship, a driver is shown in a montage in which we see three or four changing scenes at once on a split screen while he is with different women. We catch glimpses of women's bare backs, a bare thigh and leg, a bare buttock and thigh, and a pair of bare breasts and nipples. At a race in Brazil, we see close-ups of women's bodies dancing in Carnivale costumes: we see a close-up of a jeweled bra and cleavage; an abdomen and very short jeweled shirt; a jeweled bra, abdomen and cleavage; the camera pans back and we see three women dancing between cars wearing jeweled bikinis and feathers (we see bare backs, cleavage, abdomens, partial buttocks and thighs). Two female models wear very low-cut bodices on long dresses that reveal cleavage; one of them wears a jersey floor-length halter dress that bares her back while revealing a little cleavage. A woman wears a long nightgown that reveals cleavage; her husband is shown wearing a long bathrobe that reveals some hair in the middle of his chest. Women wear miniskirts reaching to mid-thigh in several racing event scenes. Some women wear deeply cut blouses that reveal cleavage. Women wear blouses that reveal bare abdomens and lower backs as well as cleavage. Several women wear short raincoats that reveal most of their thighs. Several scenes show women spectators wearing short shorts. A few male spectators are seen shirtless. ►  A man and a woman kiss briefly at home and for much longer while dancing in a club. A man kisses another man on the mouth for accomplishing a good business deal and the second man looks stunned. ►  A man stares at the buttocks of a receptionist as she turns away from her desk. A racer's manager states that condom companies do not make good sponsors and he shows him a mock-up logo patch (on a round white background we see a red arm making a muscle, and the letters SEX over the top of the bicep). ►  A racer marries a famous model soon after they meet and soon after newspaper headlines report that the wife is having an affair with a famous actor and when the racer asks her to come back to him she refuses and says that he is not serious about relationships. A woman had been living, unmarried, with an older man, but we see her carrying a suitcase-duffel away from the house and she tells another man that she is leaving for good. ►  A man remarks to a woman that men love cars more than they love women. A man remarks to a male friend that a woman and another man had sex for at least 24 hours and the woman would probably never be satisfied with another lover. A man tells newspaper reporters, "My wife has found a new backer... I mean lover.'"

VIOLENCE/GORE 7 - The film centers on a series of fast-paced Formula One (F1) races in open vehicles that are dangerous to drive and we hear in a voiceover that two F1 drivers die every year. ►  During a series of races we see calamity on the racetracks: Cars swerve to avoid hitting one another and two cars spin off the tracks into grass and drive back onto the tracks; three races feature engine blow-outs and smoking engines by the side of the tracks; in one scene, the large tires of two cars touch and make both cars spin toward the track walls, but the drivers recover control; we see an empty crashed car stuck half-way through a track railing (the car is twisted, scorched, and smoking, and we see some shattered plastic and fiberglass on the ground) and the camera cuts to a black and white TV screen showing the car crashing in lots of smoke (we do not see the driver); another scene shows a car in a long shot as it spins out and leaves the track, but not before a large wheel and tire fly off and across the infield to hit a truck hood with a thud; a car hits a side wall on the track, rises into the air, spins several times around its long axis, and crashes in clouds of smoke and in a cut to close-up we see the shouting driver on a gurney with his lower right ripped open and bleeding (we see nearly all of the tibia and fibula exposed and his face is also bloody). ►  At the German Grand Prix in 1976 track conditions and weather are very wet, but the drivers and crews vote to race anyway and an announcer tells the public that the track is now The Graveyard because of weather conditions: the race begins and cars skid and hydroplane, one car swerves off the track, hits an embankment and rolls back into the path of another car that hits it; a second car hits it as well and the first car goes up in flames and we hear the driver shouting for someone to get him out (he is pulled from the car, but has suffered severe burns to the head, arms, hands and leg along with inhaling hot toxic gases that burned his lungs); in the hospital we see the wounded driver's head is swelled to double normal size and it is raw, red and peeling; the injured man also has an oxygen clip in his nose and IVs in his arm and we see doctors changing gauze bandages, pulling away some skin and causing bleeding on the forehead; in a few days, the driver begins pushing his race helmet over his head to reduce swelling further and he groans in pain; a doctors pushes a 2-foot-long metal tube down the man's throat to vacuum out dead tissue from his lungs as he coughs (black liquid runs through a plastic hose at the other end of the tube and into a jar); the doctor removes the tube slowly and the patient tells him to put it back and vacuum more and the scene ends as he opens his mouth. ►  A racer returns to the track 6 weeks after a severe accident and multiple burns; we him wearing a pressure bandage on the side of his skull, his forehead is marbled with red lines and scars, his cheek is red and scarred, his ear misshapen and partially missing, and the heel of his hand is red; a reporter at pre-race interview insults him by asking if his marriage can hold together with his appearance being so bad and the driver yells an F-word at the reporter and storms off; a rival driver takes the reporter aside, pushes him into a restroom, punches him to the floor and beats him until his head and face are bloody, and then the driver places a rectangular object into the reporter's mouth and slams it to break the teeth and jaw, commenting that the reporter's appearance is not good. ►  At the Japanese Grand Prix in 1976 the weather is dangerous with high winds, torrential rains and heavy fog; one driver before the race says that the track is lethal and another driver drops out of the race after only two laps, unable to see in the rain and fog; while driving, a racer sees a flashback of a priest giving him last rites in the hospital after a crash as cars swerve back and forth across the track and hydroplane in pools of water; one driver has a blow-out, goes to the pits, and we see blood on the palm of his hand where the gear shifter punched through as he shouts for the pit crew to hurry as the weather worsens; he slams his helmet visor down and speeds back onto the track, cutting in front of other drivers too closely, unable to see clearly in the rain and fog, but hitting no one and finishing the race. ►  A man with a bloody nose and blood on the front of his jumpsuit walks into a clinic for a checkup; in an exam room, we see that his lower ribcage is bloody and cut, covered with gauze and a nurse removes the gauze, cleans and re-bandages him as he groans in pain. ►  A wealthy father and son argue about the son's career as a racecar driver, the father maintaining that it is not a fit occupation; the son tells his father angrily that he will find his own backers and storms out of the room. A racecar driver tells another driver that he feels most alive when he is near death on a dangerous race track; he says also that he was prepared to die to win the Japanese Grand Prix that was run in heavy fog, wind and rain in 1976. We hear that a racecar driver died at the age of 45 because he had said that he needed to have fun after the hard work of each race, drinking, doing drugs, and having sex with different women and attending parties. ►  In a passenger car, a racecar driver transports two male fans and a female friend who asks the driver to drive fast and he floors the accelerator, causing the woman to gasp and the fans to cheer (no one is harmed). ►  In four scenes before different races begin, a driver vomits onto the ground beside his team's pit (we hear him gag, cough and wretch as we see yellowish vomit hit the ground and the fourth time, a much larger amount of vomitus is produced).

LANGUAGE 6 - About 17 F-words and its derivatives, 3 obscene hand gestures, 2 sexual references, 8 scatological terms, 13 anatomical terms, 44 mild obscenities, name-calling (idiot, amateurs, fat, inbred, crazy, vapid, stupid, jerk, little boy, rats, nuts), stereotypical references to men, women, relationships, marriage, racecar drivers, models, reporters, groupies, the British, Germans, Italians, 7 religious exclamations (e.g. My God, Jesus, God help anyone who wants more).

SUBSTANCE USE - We see a hand straighten a line of cocaine using a razor blade. A man opens a bottle of champagne and sprays onlookers after car races, men and women drink from bottles of beer and glasses of champagne and wines at parties and cookouts and they also smoke cigarettes in these scenes, men and women are drinking wine as well as beer and whiskey in three restaurant-club scenes and some of the men and women in each scene also smoke, a man pours whiskey into a glass and drinks it in an all-male meeting, a man sits at a desk and drinks whiskey while smoking a cigar, a racecar driver begins to drink frequently in many outdoor and indoor scenes showing him drinking whiskey from a glass, a half dozen morning hotel bedroom scenes show a long table on top of which are two or three half-filled glasses of wine and an empty wine bottle, a man is shown drinking beer from bottles and smoking cigarettes, and a driver tells reporters that he intends to get drunk after winning a race. A man smokes cigarettes in a dozen indoor and outdoor scenes, a man has both a lighted cigar and a lighted cigarette in an ashtray at a table and smokes the cigarette, a racecar announcers' booth contains three ashtrays full of lighted cigarettes and we see smoke rising (no one is shown smoking), two auto mechanics smoke cigarettes together in their garage in three scenes, several men and women smoke cigarettes in two restaurants and outside at a track during a racing event, an older man smokes a cigar in his study at home, and a driver's manager tells him that cigarette companies are not appropriate sponsors (but Marlboro becomes their sponsor).

DISCUSSION TOPICS - Dangerous occupations, racecar driving, competition, determination, hedonism, fame, money, respect, relationships, excess, survival.

MESSAGE - Determination can help you win, but winning a prize is not worth your life.

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In Theaters

• September 20, 2013
• Chris Hemsworth as James Hunt; Daniel Brühl as Niki Lauda; Olivia Wilde as Suzy Miller; Alexandra Maria Lara as Marlene Knaus; Natalie Dormer as Gemma; Pierfrancesco Favino as Clay Regazzoni; Christian McKay as Alexander Hesketh

Home Release Date

• January 28, 2014

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• Universal Pictures

Positive Elements   |   Spiritual Elements   |   Sexual & Romantic Content   |   Violent Content   |   Crude or Profane Language   |   Drug & Alcohol Content   |   Other Noteworthy Elements   | Conclusion

Movie Review

James Hunt and Niki Lauda could hardly be more different—in outlook, in appearance, in their approach to Formula 1 racing.

When Britain’s James Hunt pulls his helmet off, he looks like a Norse god. Austria’s Niki Lauda, meanwhile, looks more like a rat than a deity. Hunt’s rakish good looks paired with his flowing blond mane and a mischievous, devil-may-care smirk work alchemical magic on female supplicants (the carnal offerings of whom he, like a famished god enjoying his just due, has no problem receiving).

Lauda, conversely, couldn’t care less what his fans think of him. He’s driven by a singular passion: to be the world’s best racer. That means winning international racing’s big prize, the Formula 1 title. Accordingly, at the beginning of any given race-day he might be found on the track evaluating curves at 5:00 a.m. (about the time Hunt might be evaluating a completely different set of curves at the end of any given night ).

For Lauda, winning races isn’t about instinct or daring, as it is for the preternaturally talented Hunt. No, for Niki Lauda, winning races is a science , a discipline he prosecutes with zealous, meticulous scrutiny.

At the beginning of the 1976 season, the stage has been set: It’s the British playboy vs. the Austrian perfectionist. Lauda’s methodical precision yielded the championship the year before, and Hunt is bent upon preventing a repeat performance. Lauda coolly assures Hunt that he has no chance. Hot-blooded Hunt is determined to make Lauda eat his words.

Science does indeed trump natural ability in the first half of the season, with Lauda systematically blitzkrieging his way to six victories in the first nine races. Meanwhile, the one win Hunt ekes out gets disqualified by Lauda’s team because the Austrian reports that Hunt’s tires are too wide.

And then … the Ring.

Germany’s infamous Nürburgring. A track 14.2 miles long snaking through a mindboggling 177 turns. A track that averaged nearly three driver fatalities a year in its first 56 years of existence. A track that racer Jackie Stewart dubbed “The Green Hell.” A track flanked by foreboding trees casting long shadows as they await new victims.

It’s a track that Lauda fears.

And when he, Hunt and 23 other Formula 1 racers awaken on the morning of August 1, 1976 to find rain pouring over its sinewy, serpentine twists and turns, he knows that the danger is even greater.

Positive Elements

James Hunt is devilishly likeable, but ultimately his insatiable appetite for fleshly indulgences—sex, drink, marijuana—make him an increasingly tragic figure. He briefly marries supermodel Suzy Miller, but his vices prove more than she can bear, and she eventually ends up having an affair with aging actor Richard Burton before leaving Hunt. A voiceover by Lauda at the end of the film narrates Hunt’s deepening descent into decadence after the ’76 season: The Austrian racer laments that Hunt died of a heart attack at the age of 45, a commentary that depicts the fiery racer’s life as something of a cautionary tale we’d do better not to imitate.

As for Lauda, he’s got serious faults too, frequently demeaning anyone who disagrees with him. Indeed, when Lauda tries to convince his fellow racers not to go forward with the race on what will ultimately be a tragic day for him at the Ring, his surly, arrogant demeanor works against him, with the majority of drivers siding with Hunt, who favors a green flag.

Lauda suffers a horrific accident there and has to battle back from terrible wounds. Throughout the weeks of grueling rehab that follow, Lauda watches Hunt win race after race after race, erasing the seemingly insurmountable points lead Lauda had piled up early in the season. It proves a powerful motivator in his recovery. And then, against all odds and doctors’ advice, Lauda pulls a helmet on—screaming in agony as it slides over the horrific, not-fully-healed scars on his head and face—in an incredibly brave attempt to win the championship.

For all their competition, however, in the end Lauda and Hunt develop a deep respect for each another. At a pre-race press conference after Lauda’s valiant return, a reporter callously asks how Lauda’s wife, Marlene, could stand to look at his now-scarred visage. Hunt later seeks to defend his compatriot’s honor. (He does so totally inappropriately; more on that later.)

No one studies racing harder than Lauda, and that determination yields success—even when his rich father, an Austrian banker, doesn’t believe his son can possibly win in racing. Lauda also has a keen sense of the risk involved in what he’s doing, and if the risk surpasses a certain threshold, he won’t race. In the last race at Fuji—where merely finishing would likely have secured a championship for him—he ultimately thinks of his wife and after a handful of laps drops out of the race.

Spiritual Elements

After his accident, Lauda instructs someone to tell a Catholic priest who’s present not to perform last rites. “Tell the priest to f‑‑‑ off. I’m still alive,” he spits. Hunt flirts briefly with sexual abstinence in an attempt to focus on racing, saying that he has to develop a “mind like a monk.”

Sexual & Romantic Content

Note that I said Hunt flirts with abstinence briefly. An early montage of his sexual liaisons features perhaps a dozen women, and the images include explicit movements, bare breasts and unclothed shots of both Hunt and his lovers from behind. A similar sequence is repeated at the end of the film, showing him intertwined with more mostly naked women.

Hunt has sex with a nurse at a hospital after a racing accident. They embrace passionately and pull each other’s clothes off. Another explicit sex scene takes place in a shower. And still another (with more breast nudity) shows him with a flight attendant in a plane’s lavatory. We see Hunt in bed with two women at once before a race. He gets a patch on his racing overalls that says, “Sex: Breakfast of Champions.”

Lauda’s wife swims topless on the couple’s honeymoon, and the pair is shown in bed together. A race in Brazil boasts many women wearing risqué outfits.

Violent Content

Hunt’s desire to defend Lauda manifests itself by him dragging the rude reporter into a room and pummeling his face, then telling the man to go home to see what his wife thinks of that .

We witness Lauda’s big accident as he spins out of control and is hit by two cars, turning the wreckage into a fireball. The Austrian racer is trapped for more than a minute before other drivers can excavate him, resulting in horrible burns to his face and head (one of his ears and both of his eyelids are burnt off). We see him bloodied and bandaged in the hospital, and watch as doctors stick a long metal vacuum down his throat to clean out burned lung tissue. It’s a procedure that Lauda asks for again to speed his recovery.

We glimpse a horribly mangled car that presumably took a racer’s life. And another crash results in a bloody, gory and graphically displayed compound leg fracture. Hunt is shown with a bleeding wound to his abdomen after a racing accident.

Crude or Profane Language

At least 15 f-words and half-a-dozen or so s-words. There’s one use of the c-word. Jesus’ name is abused six times, God’s name three or four. We hear six uses total of three vulgar slang terms for the male anatomy and see one obscene hand gesture. Add to that a handful of uses each of “h‑‑‑,” “a‑‑,” “bloody” and “b‑‑tard.” Lauda harshly labels anyone and everybody he doesn’t like an “a‑‑hole.” Hunt mocks Lauda as a “kraut” and a “goose-stepper.”

Drug & Alcohol Content

Hunt drinks continually, both beer and hard liquor, sometimes even before races. He has a similar penchant for smoking cigarettes and marijuana. In a dark moment, he drinks to the point of passing out. Hunt’s crew is nearly as wild as he is, and we often see them drinking and carousing. In sharp contrast, Lauda rejects such wild living, and is as abstemious as Hunt is indulgent.

Other Noteworthy Elements

Hunt vomits immediately before every race, something we witness several times. He says that he wants to live as if each day was his last, a personal ethos that leads him to unbridled hedonism and risk-taking.

Lauda drives recklessly on an Italian road in an attempt to impress a girl. On his honeymoon, Lauda describes a sharp tension between his newly married happiness and his love of racing. “Happiness is the enemy,” he laments. “It weakens you. Puts doubt in your mind. Suddenly, you have something to lose.”

Ron Howard is no stranger to realistic, historical drama, whether it’s capturing a president’s tussle with a feisty interviewer (Frost/Nixon) , exploring the dangerous and unpredictable realities firefighters confront every day (Backdraft) , diving headlong into the poignant struggles of those battling schizophrenia (A Beautiful mind) or observing the heroic efforts of three astronauts trying to make it back to Earth (Apollo 13) .

With Rush , Howard has teamed up with British screenwriter and playwright Peter Morgan (The Last King of Scotland, The Queen, Frost/Nixon) to tell the gripping story of the rivalry between two fierce competitors. And part of the film’s grip comes from the fact that neither is the clear-cut hero, with both James Hunt and Niki Lauda embodying noble and ignoble traits. Such is the power of Howard and Morgan’s storytelling that viewers are simultaneously attracted to and repelled by each: You want both to win at some points, but you wouldn’t mind when they’re behaving badly if someone else put them in their place.

In the end, both men are consumed in different ways and utterly changed by that consumption: Lauda by a fire that forever alters his career and life; Hunt by an addictive, bottomless appetite for behaviors that ultimately and tragically end his life.

With regard to the latter, Howard has chosen to give us a decidedly R-rated depiction of Hunt’s triumphant-but-tragic story, one that frequently involves naked women throwing themselves at his godlike celebrity. Howard says of the flesh-indulging characters and era he brings to life here, “It’s a very sexy, fascinating period in global history and popular culture. … It was the tail end of the sexual revolution, where there was nothing to fear and everything to celebrate … when sex was safe and driving was dangerous. … When I hear wild stories about Formula 1, I realize people don’t quite do those things today but they are not entirely alien to my own understanding of what the world of celebrity was like in the ’70s.”

Howard set out to craft a compelling take on an epic rivalry set in a hedonistic age, one that’s earned many critical raves. But the amount of explicit debauchery on display constitutes a waving red flag for moviegoers.

Adam R. Holz

After serving as an associate editor at NavPress’ Discipleship Journal and consulting editor for Current Thoughts and Trends, Adam now oversees the editing and publishing of Plugged In’s reviews as the site’s director. He and his wife, Jennifer, have three children. In their free time, the Holzes enjoy playing games, a variety of musical instruments, swimming and … watching movies.

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The movie teams up Jackie Chan , king of lighthearted action comedy, and Chris Tucker , who crosses Eddie Murphy with Chris Rock and comes up with a guy who, if you saw him a block away, you’d immediately start wondering how he was going to con you. There are comic possibilities even in their personal patterns. Chan is not known for his effortless command of English, and Tucker is a motormouth. Chan’s persona is modest and self-effacing, and Tucker plays a shameless self-promoter.

The story: During the last days of Hong Kong’s status as a British colony, supercop Chan busts up a smuggling ring, but the masterminds escape to the United States. There they kidnap the daughter of the Chinese consul, who tells the FBI he wants Chan, a family friend, flown in to help with the investigation. The feds want nothing to do with a cop from overseas, and they also don’t want the LAPD involved. So they get the idea of pairing up the Chinese guy and the L.A. cop so they can keep each other out of the way.

At L.A. police headquarters, this idea is well-received after the chief (the redoubtable Philip Baker Hall ) realizes it’s a way to get his most troublesome detective out of his hair. That would be Carter, played by Chris Tucker as the kind of loose cannon who roars around the streets in a vintage Corvette and works undercover in dangerous situations.

Neither cop likes teamwork. Both work best alone. But Chan doesn’t know his way around L.A., and Tucker needs to earn points with his chief. That’s enough to fuel the lightweight screenplay by Jim Kouf and Ross Lamanna, which contains a lot of genuinely funny lines and even a reference to Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles, of “ Jackie Brown ” fame.

Chan is, of course, noted for his stunts, which he performs himself, without doubles. “Rush Hour” has a neat little example of his wall-climbing ability and a breathtaking sequence in which he leaps from a double-decker bus to an overhead traffic sign to a truck. And there’s a scene in a high atrium where he falls from a beam and slides to safety down a silk streamer. (It’s useful to point out, I suppose, that although Chan does his own stunts, they are indeed stunts and not death-defying risks; he does what a stunt man would do, but with the same safeguards and deceptive camera angles. He is brave, agile and inventive, but not foolish.) I like the way the plot handles Soo Yung ( Julia Hsu ), the consul’s young daughter. Instead of being treated like a helpless pawn, she’s portrayed as one of Jackie’s little martial arts students in Hong Kong (“Have you been practicing your eye gouges?”), and when the kidnappers try to carry her off, she causes them no end of trouble. I also liked the way Chris Tucker (who was funny in “ Money Talks ”) talks his way into and out of situations, using a distracting stream of dialogue while he figures out what to do next. “Rush Hour” is lightweight and made out of familiar elements, but they’re handled with humor and invention, and the Wunza formula can seem fresh if the characters are Botha couple of engaging performers.

Footnote: All Jackie Chan movies end with outtakes, which usually show him missing on stunts and breaking bones, etc. This time the emphasis is mostly on bloopers, where he and Tucker blow their lines. I like the missed stunts better. It’s not that I enjoy seeing Jackie waving bravely from the stretcher as they wheel him into the ambulance, but that there’s a tradition involved. To be sure, with the two major stunts in this movie, any mistakes could have been his last.

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