Ron Howard's Movie Rush - Not?

Bruce Hotchkiss' "Spare Parts", Sep 11 2013 - Thanks to Chrysler we went to an advanced screening of RUSH, the new Ron Howard movie "based on" the rivalry between Niki Lauda and James Hunt. The movie makes it clear that it is based on a true story and that's good because it does take liberties.

We both felt the first half of the movie, up to the crash, was pretty flat. I suppose it was intended to set up the rivalry between the two very different drivers but it just didn't work. To me it made both Hunt and Lauda as caricatures, not real people. Hunt is the drinking, drug using, womanizing playboy with natural talent and no fear; Lauda is the calculating Teutonic machine. www.brucehotchkiss.com/2013/09/rush-not.html

Photo by Randy Berg: Honda Formula 1 Race Car - LA Auto Show 2011