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47 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75IndieWireChristian ZilkoIndieWireChristian ZilkoBlomkamp might have directed the best 90-minute sports movie of the decade — it’s just a shame that Gran Turismo is nearly two and a half hours.
- 70VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanThere’s an innocence to this one, and a surprise authenticity. It’s like a “Fast and Furious” movie made without cynicism, and it gets to you.
- 60Total FilmNeil SmithTotal FilmNeil SmithFast, furious and based on fact, this pleasingly lateral adaptation embellishes a console-jockey favourite with familiar sports-movie archetypes.
- 50Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonNeill Blomkamp puts the pedal to the metal with Gran Turismo, a high-octane underdog sports drama that boasts electrifying race-car sequences but a badly cliched narrative away from the track.
- 45The Daily BeastNick SchagerThe Daily BeastNick SchagerGreat racing sequences aside, it’s so clichéd and unadventurous that it makes its source material seem deep by comparison.
- 40EmpireJohn NugentEmpireJohn NugentDespite some warm performances, it’s very hard to ignore the feeling that this is largely just two hours of product placement.
- In the end, Gran Turismo can't escape the feeling of being actively held back at every turn — by the confines of video game conventions, by a painfully trope-laden script, or simply by the fact that everything this video game movie wants to achieve has already been done better before.
- 40The IndependentClarisse LoughreyThe IndependentClarisse LoughreyIt’s a film that might as well have been the marketing department’s power-point presentation.
- 20The GuardianThe GuardianCommerce contaminates the whole endeavour.