Gran Turismo 4K 2023 2160p WEB-DL

Based on the Gran Turismo series of racing video games. A teenage player becomes a professional racing driver.

Gran Turismo 4K Review
As a teenager, Yann (Archie Madekwe) loved playing Gran Turismo. His father (Djimon Hounsou) was a professional soccer player, his younger brother was safely finishing high school, and Yann worked in a lingerie store for a month to save up for a new steering wheel for PlayStation. In his hometown of Cardiff, he had already beaten everyone several times and spent days competing solely with himself. He would have sat at the console until his old age, but the company Nissan, namely marketing director Danny Moore, with his idea of transferring virtual racers in real sports cars saved Yann from the life of a large-age gamer.

The most amazing thing about the movie Gran Turismo is that it's based on the real-life story of Yann Mardenborough. Nissan really in 2011 decided to experiment with racers from Gran Turismo in reality, and Mardenborough became one of the few who safely moved from the gamer's chair in the car. Minus this circumstance, the picture looks not even like a computer game, which would be good, but like a two-hour commercial for a computer game.

Conventionally, the movie can be divided into two parts: gamer and racing. In the first one Yann spends most of his time in front of the console, conflicts with his parents, who for some reason are not happy about his son's obvious obsession with the Japanese video game, builds ingenious strategies to overtake virtual rivals and tries to prove to others that this is real life. In general, behaves inadequately, but one day the world buckles under him. At the same time Danny Moore, marketing director of Nissan, persuades the bosses of Gran Turismo to hold a competition among gamers and some of the best to release on a real race track. The idea gets the green light, with Mardenborough performing the best among British players and becoming one of those allowed to train on real sportscars.

Here already the blanket begins to tug their "coach", engineer Jack Salter played by David Harbour. This giant at times seems to be the only one who could save the picture - Madekwe-Yannu, obviously, lacks acting ability, and Bloom and, for a minute, two-time Oscar nominee Honsu, it seems that there is simply nothing to play, and the timing of the characters is allocated to a minimum. Salter is sarcastic, Salter is harsh, Salter makes real athletes out of "couch racers" and even gets sympathy for the new recruits. And in the best moments, when only the race is left in the frame, and the script forgets to add lines like "This is reality, not a game, remember that!" and "If you doubt, there will be no confidence!", you can even confuse the picture with "Kid on a Drive". But, alas, neither the director (the author of "District 9" by the way), nor the screenwriter Alex Tse and next to Edgar Wright, and therefore the expensive commercial remains a commercial.

Outstanding supporting actors and once promising director Neill Blomkamp are powerless in the face of the fact that they are engaged in an adaptation of a racing simulator. The two-hour film exists as if without a core, probably the perfect picture to demonstrate all the possibilities of the 4D theater format, when the viewer, among other things, wriggles in the chair in all directions. A complacent tone without unnecessary emotional swings at some point, of course, can take over: when else will there be a movie where the protagonist moves so smoothly and steadily towards imminent success, bypassing all obstacles in maximum 5-10 minutes? But such conflict-free only enhances the feeling of watching a children's playset, not a movie.

"Gran Turismo" tries to exploit all available templates, but as if breaks down at the very beginning, when under the sauce of imaginary confrontation between fathers and children is pushed the idea that cybersport is no different from ordinary sports. And in fact, Gran Turismo isn't that replacement, it's actual sportscar racing. If you can do it on PlayStation, you can do it on the track! It seems absurd, but this is the world picture that is suggested to believe "by default", and all the next two hours the main character will impose it on the other characters, and the viewer should support Jann in the fight between Jann and common sense. And Orlando Bloom with the appearance of Joker and the behavior of Alex the lion from "Madagascar" is not so absurd anymore - everywhere thirsty for profit ambitious marketer with sudden attacks of waking conscience. It's almost embarrassing to sketch a love line with the most unlikely girl in the world. The same can be said for the main rival on the highway, Nicholas, a cartoonishly evil major who is only allowed to send someone into a ditch. His driving experience and racing experience is nothing compared to the thousands of hours played by Yannom in Gran Turismo.

It would seem that Gran Turismo has everything you need, but its inherent flaw, the absurd premise of the equality of the sports car and the PlayStation, coupled with an obscenely truncated script that grabs everything and drops everything, prevents the movie from developing into anything more than a racing simulator promo.