Need For Speed is one of the best Video Game inspired movies I've seen, thanks to the story being about more than just racing and getting away from cops. Imogen Poots' (the female lead) and Aaron Paul's (the race car mechanic) interaction throughout the movie developed as the story went on and made me care about what happened to their characters. This movie definitely has heart IMO (in my opinion).
Racing on public streets puts innocent lives in danger as this movie demonstrated (best to race in a closed course), but within the confines of the main characters and their motivations, great movie. There was a good villain here that kept things interesting.
The racing and chases were plentiful and awesome and include some top notch camera angles of the cars, interior dash views, and speed. Lots of exciting high speed action that was easy to keep track of. If you enjoy cars and car chase movies, check it out. Great special effects and some of the crashes were brutal. Really enjoyed the movie, characters, chases, performance sports cars, and 3D in Need for Speed. The movie is definitely over 2 hours, but worth it IMO.
Distributed by Disney, created by Dreamworks, Sony, WB, etc. Didn't spot who the 3D conversion team was in the ending credits, unless it showed it at the very last second after the Dreamworks Logo.
3D Mini Review of Need For Speed 3D The Movie:
3D Layers: 8/10 A good mix of Medium, upper medium and a few shots of strong 3D. Really nicely done 3D here. Regal Cinema Theater does a nice job with the 3D projection.
3D Pop Out: 5/10. Not designed for many pop outs, they are far and few between, but there are a couple, especially the garbage bags that go flying out of the screen in the beginning night city race.
3D Volume: 8/10. The faces look rounded nicely IMO, but others may be better judges of the roundness than myself with conversions.
3D Final: 8/10. Really nicely done, mostly medium 3D added a nice dimension to the story and amped up the 3D during the car chases.
Will definitely buy the blu ray 3D of NFS 3D, guessing around July 2014.
