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Rush

Daniel Brühl con­tem­plates his imme­di­ate future in the excel­lent Rush. I can relate. I review that movie, and the less excel­lent but highly inter­est­ing Prisoners, for MSN Movies this week. 

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  • mark s. says:
    September 22, 2013 at 2:56 pm

    Oh, Loki is low-key, as in laid-back.
    I thought it was a ref­er­ence to Holly Loki and the Chordettes.
    God, I’m stupid.

  • Jeff McMahon says:
    September 23, 2013 at 3:06 pm

    Some real expert lip-pursing right there.

  • Josh Z says:
    September 24, 2013 at 10:17 am

    Wait, so the twist is that the cop turns out to be the supervil­lain from The Avengers? Weird…

  • MDL says:
    September 25, 2013 at 2:01 am

    I thought Rush was quite good as well. The racing scenes how­ever aren’t quite as good as the scenes in Frankenheimer’s Grand Prix. But it seems pretty obvi­ous that Frankenheimer was more inter­ested in the kick-ass nature of fast Formula One cars and racing action than plot, while Howard is more inter­ested in telling a human story we can all relate to than fast driv­ing. I’d recom­mend both to any race car fan but for dif­fer­ent reasons.