Paul’s companion in the Mustang is your standard off-the-shelf prim English lady named Julia, who’s at the mercy of Paul’s blue-collar American masculinity. Magic cars make prim English ladies swoon. You might think that the roof would be sheared off and the Mustang and its two inhabitants would plunge into the canyon, but this is a magical roof we’re talking about, and is immune to such natural forces. The Mustang is driven at high speed off a cliff into a canyon and lands in the safe, comfortable embrace of that chain. It should be a total wreck, but its magical powers keep it going long enough to be carried into the air by a helicopter with nothing to hold it up but a single chain slung through the driver’s and passenger’s windows and linked to the chopper above. The camera clearly shows the car landing pretty much face-first. Paul drives the Mustang over a central reservation and launches the car about 10 feet into the air, and brings it crashing down on the tarmac on the other side. The Mustang regularly defies the laws of physics. But then we are led to believe that this car is magic… 4. 900bhp is not enough to overcome drag and get something the shape of a Mustang to 230mph. The laws of physics make it incredibly difficult to get a square block of a car up to those speeds. There’s a reason that most of them look like a narrow wedge dipped in greased lightning. Cars that can top 220mph live in a very exclusive club. The most heavily modified versions can stretch that to around 200mph, and that’s with a 1200bhp engine, which easily bests the 900bhp engine in the car featured in the film. You expect me to believe that a Ford Mustang could reach 230mph?įord’s production models of the Mustang typically top out at around 180mph. It’s possible, of course, that I’m confusing fear with constipation and Paul’s really just desperate for a dump and is racing at 230mph to get to the nearest loo. Quite why his face gives away such extreme fear every time the camera cuts to a closeup during his driving scenes is baffling. There’s his Unusually Jovial For Someone On A Revenge Mission face:Īnd finally there’s his inexplicable Driving Scares Me face: But if Need For Speed was my only evidence, I’d have to assume that Paul has only three looks. I have no reason to believe that Paul has anything less than a regular human face, which is capable of regular human expressions. So why does his Need For Speed voice sound like a very bored Batman? The only thing weirder than his voice is his face. Judging by his work on Breaking Bad and Bojack Horseman, he can deliver a range of character and emotion. You can tell it’s a serious film because Aaron Paul spends every moment speaking with a very strained gravelly voice. This would be fine if we were talking about the street-racing version of Airplane!, but Need For Speed takes itself very seriously. The 2014 movie starring Aaron Paul is nonsensical from beginning to end. And I still think the video games have more respect for reality than the Need For Speed movie. I’ve driven in slow motion between the wheels of an enormous articulated truck and looked behind me to see four pursuing police vehicles crash into the truck, causing its cargo to spew all over the road and take out a further two pursuers. In particular, I played the hell out of the original Need For Speed (1994) and Need For Speed: Most Wanted (2005) on the PC. I’ve sunk dozens of hours into EA’s Need For Speed games over the years.
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