Hey, look, it's an ad... and a documentary... an adumentary!
Jann is a kid that likes to drive on the most recent version of the car game (which he didn't actually have at the time) and gets to be in a competition. He wins by the blur of his car, so goes on to race, gets in a terrible accident, but goes on to win big!
Mostly... at least, that's what the movie portrays, the actual order was slightly different but that wasn't as flowing a story for the movie. Eh, these things happen, and it could be worse what they did. The movie abbreviates a lot of events and characters, but that's de rigour for these sorts of things.
While Archie Madekwe does great work as Jann, he's completely overshadowed whenever David Harbour is on screen. And Orlando Bloom is just there for kicks, as far as I can tell. There are other cameos from big names, but the main stars is... the game!
I mean the car! There is a lot of car graphics in this, and yes, they are really well done. Jann originally played on the PS3, so there's no way they look as good then as they do now. Especially with the money now behind them (and no doubt the latest games, which this is an ad for, likely had more money spent on it that on this money).
If you like car racing, this is a great movie for you, and as "based on a true story" it gets more cred for being a good movie than other general car racing movies.
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