There may be lots of speculation about the future of DreamWorks in its current incarnation at Disney as my colleague Mike Fleming wrote earlier this week, but you would never know it from last night’s rip-roaring premiere of its latest film, Need For Speed at the Chinese Theatre. I went in expecting a poor man’s Fast And The Furious and instead got a riveting and fun entertainment with lots of heart and emotion in addition to all the stunt driving.  The film , which stars Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul as a street racer out for revenge after being  framed for a death of a young street racing rookie, has all the requisite action you would expect from this kind of movie but there’s so much more .  The fact that it marks the second feature directed by former stuntman, Scott Waugh (the son of another stuntman , Fred Waugh who passed away while his son was in pre-production) would lead one to believe it would be all pedal-to-the-metal and no soul, but that’s not the case.  Waugh’s first feature behind the camera , Act Of Valor proved he knew how to put humanity into a genre film.

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