Rush

- Todd McCarthy
- September 3, 2013
- http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie/rush/review/619675?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thr%2Fnews+(The+Hollywood+Reporter+-+Top+Stories)

Todd McCarthy's review of Ron Howard's Rush goes in depth on the negative aspects of the movie. McCarthy uses claim of value and claim of fact in his review. Using these claims he does not give the best review, it is not terrible nor is it good. McCarthy's claim of value is "Universal won't be seeing anything resembling Fast & Furious business at the box office." In this movie Hunt's race team is falling apart but he wants to do everything to beat Laude in the race. Hunt's wife leaves him, that public humiliation motivates him to do better. During a race Laude get's into a terrible accident, blaming Hunt for it. In the end those two characters are far too different to be friends. McCarthy does not have much to say about the movie, he uses claim of fact to say  "Morgan hasn't bothered to add more than one dimension... nor to provide especially memorable dialogue." He also says the reason people (women) would see this movie is because of Chris Hemsworth's good looks. McCarthy compares Rush to other race movies, such as Grand Prix and Le Mans to Days of Thunder. He says these movies did a much better job at showing the excitement of the track and developing the drama. McCarthy goes as far as saying a the racing footage is not great, there are no amazing racing sequences. Todd McCarthy gives a strict thumbs down to Rush, a movie starting Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Bruhl. It is evident that this review is for the most part a claim of value, because Rush was good enough to make it to The Toronto Film Festival which is second best next to Cannes.