Overall the film was very solid and the director achieved his intentions of how the movie came together. Apart from that, there were some hiccups in the film. The movie “The Worlds Fastest Indian,” is about Burt Munro, who isn’t your typical Kiwi motor enthusiast, he is a small town hero who came from nothing. His obsession is all focused on his bike, although he is a bit of a hard case, under all that passion you will find, he is your easy going, go with the flow character, trying to chase a dream, to race his tinkered 1920’s Indian Scout in the annual Speed Week, held in Bonnieville, Utah. With the help of his community in Invercargill, he managed to scrape all the money that he possibly had to get himself over to the States. Once there he had to face new experiences and challenges as he went across America.

Anthony Hopkins stars as Burt Munro, which this film follows as he lives his dream of racing his Indian in Speed Week. Apart from Anthony’s versatile acting, the majority of the cast was a bit bland in terms of portraying their characters. The New Zealand actors didn’t provide the experience and versatility to be on par with Anthony Hopkins, who really knows how to portray a certain character, as he has played a vast range of personalities on screen. The Kiwi actors mainly coming from the soap opera Shortland Street, just didn’t provide that flare that Anthony had.

The director Roger Donaldson, did well in bringing a scene to life by adding a sense of danger to the film with his camera angles and shots. A prime example of this, is when Burt is testing his Indian on the salt flats, he starts to gather the speed wobbles, which shows how unstable his bike really was. This scene made me feel anxious as to how easily it could have gone wrong, and made me understand the certain lengths Burt would go to see what speeds his Indian could actually achieve.

In the film, the sounds really helped add to the scenes, that made you want to be on the edge of your seat, as he is testing his Indian on the Salt Flats. The backtrack really added suspense and danger to the situation that Burt was about to face. As Burt gathers speed on his bike, the tempo of the music picks up pace, with the bike telling you that he is really pushing the bike to its limits, and knowing that it could all go wrong in a split second. The sounds really makes the film into its own, and really works alongside the acting, like a Robin to its Batman. For example a genre of films that sound breaks the movie, is 80’s Westerns using upbeat pop music when the cowboys a riding off into the sunset, it just does not feel right, like putting on a left shoe on your right foot.

Overall the film was very solid in the way that is panned out. With the director achieving his intention of creating this hero out of nothing. Burt was a very unorganised yet he is very passionate about his Indian, knowing that it would be along shot to achieve his dream, he had to take every little opportunity that came his way as he had hardly any money. I recommend this movie to anyone who has a passion for motor sports or just to make you feel good as its a light hearted, heroic film.