This is a great story and I was looking forward to watch this - but it has too many technical issues for me to really enjoy it.
The pace is really bad - I love a lead up to a movie but this is just too much with nothing getting done.
We don't start racing for what seems like ages but in that time we don't learn much about the sport of the characters. Really important aspects are just blurted out rather than shown.
This makes the characters really flat as they have just one characteristic to define them - you get the ego one, the pushy one, the bad knee guy and the daddy's girl - nothing more.
Despite tracking through some of the most beautiful countryside on the planet the film looks very dark and colourless.
It is also rare for the camera to actually be on a tripod and even scenes in a cafe feel like they were shot from a dingy floating on a pond.
The acting also is quote stilted where every line feels like a quip.
The dog parts also aren't great - a chase scene with just dogs is a brave thing to try but very hard to do.
I feel really mean talking so badly about t a film that was obviously made with a lot of love but just didn't do it for me.
My wife really enjoyed it and there is fun to be had here but I couldn't get in to it.
The pace is really bad - I love a lead up to a movie but this is just too much with nothing getting done.
We don't start racing for what seems like ages but in that time we don't learn much about the sport of the characters. Really important aspects are just blurted out rather than shown.
This makes the characters really flat as they have just one characteristic to define them - you get the ego one, the pushy one, the bad knee guy and the daddy's girl - nothing more.
Despite tracking through some of the most beautiful countryside on the planet the film looks very dark and colourless.
It is also rare for the camera to actually be on a tripod and even scenes in a cafe feel like they were shot from a dingy floating on a pond.
The acting also is quote stilted where every line feels like a quip.
The dog parts also aren't great - a chase scene with just dogs is a brave thing to try but very hard to do.
I feel really mean talking so badly about t a film that was obviously made with a lot of love but just didn't do it for me.
My wife really enjoyed it and there is fun to be had here but I couldn't get in to it.