Gran Turismo tells the “true story” of Jann Mardenborough, the real-life 2011 GT Academy champion. As with most movie adaptations, the truth gets re-worked a bit to make the story fit into its run time.
the Hollywood direction / production over dramatized how scared the kid was at every minute of every race, in every scene he's on screen racing, and that gets real old real fast, but the track scenes outside the car are great, the helicopter shot of Du Bai's skyscrapers under construction is superb, and though no one will probably admit that this movie is in the same category as Gran Prix, and LeMans, it is.
Just more realistic for the current race environment, of billionaires funding their spoiled kids racing program, and the high winds catching under the cars going over the hill at Nurburgring, and kids on games with ambitions to go pro who parents aren't ready to be mentors or supportive of their kids far out unrealistic dreams.
The scene at 1:33 where the old driver relates his life story of crashing, to the young new driver who has a pivotal decision to make about bailing out of the dangerous sport, or accepting that the career of a race driver has horrible days and people die.
The actor that plays the asshole driver for Team Capa, in the gold lame Lambo, shows the acting trick of taking on such a different role from what you're familiar seeing them in that you forget it's an actor instead of a spoiled asshole kid.
The writing and script has some exceedingly lame and predictable lines, and they too are as ridiculous as nearly everything that David Harbour's character is given to state as if it's not nauseatingly obvious
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