He has a British buyer on the line for a cool $3 million, and he proposes to hire Tobey and company to finish building the car in exchange for a cut of the sale. Dino has come into possession of the prototype 50th-anniversary Ford Mustang that legendary designer Carroll Shelby was working on at the time of his death in 2012. With his slick pompadour and cocksure strut, Dominic Cooper is nearly a caricature of wanton privilege as Dino Brewster, the hometown boy turned NASCAR pro, newly back in town with PeteвЂ™s sister Anita (Dakota Johnson), who happens to be TobeyвЂ™s former high-school flame, on his arm. (File his performance under вЂњa little goes a long way.вЂќ) They include the wiry, bug-eyed Rami Malek (as a mechanic who gives his cubicle-dwelling day job an exuberant kiss-off), and hip-hop star Scott Mescudi as a wise-cracking Army Reserve pilot who improbably pops up in a variety of civilian and military aircraft throughout the movie, lending the racers eagle-eyed air support whenever they seem to require it. In a mildly refreshing change-up from the American action-movie norm, Paul is surrounded by an ensemble of similarly small-to-medium-sized gearheads who, collectively, might equal one Vin Diesel or the Rock. ThereвЂ™s something of the young James Cagney in him, and heвЂ™s by far the best thing вЂњNeed for SpeedвЂќ has going for it.

Tobey, by contrast, is built Ford-tough, and Paul plays the part with the flinty, tightly wound charisma of a small man who makes up in moxie what he lacks in stature. One half expects James Dean and Sal Mineo to enter at any moment, but instead we get Tobey Marshall ( Aaron Paul), a youth stock-car prodigy who now runs a local custom auto shop, and his best bud, Pete (Harrison Gilbertson), whoвЂ™s also called вЂњLittle Pete,вЂќ and whose sensitive, childlike demeanor tells us from the start that heвЂ™s doomed to meet an untimely end.

Film need for speed 2014