Finally, an Underdog Sports Movie where the doggedly determined heroes include a couple of huge international commercial brands. Forget about Rocky and the Karate Kid, we have PlayStation and Nissan in our corner!
This is one of the problems with the intermittently exciting and well-filmed but formulaic and relatively uninvolving video game/race car biopic “Gran Turismo.” Based on true events, this is the tale of how gamer Jann Mardenborough (Archie Madekwe) made the impressive leap from manning a steering wheel plugged into a console in his bedroom to competing in the Super GT, Super Formula, Formula 3 European Championship and the 24 Hours of Le Mans against some of the finest real-world racers on the planet.
