The World's Fastest Indian [DVD]

Great film

The sort of very interesting character who only comes along once in the lifetime and tears up the script without realizing it. Leaving New Zealand with no money Burt Munro manages cross America making lots of friends and turns up at the Bonneville Salt flats with a battered old Indian motorbike that he put together himself in his own garage. He manages to persuade the irritated authorities to let him have a go at a land speed record with his motorbike that looks like a laughable pile of junk and then sets the world record for his class. Its absolutely brilliant! The bit that really made me laugh was zooming past a parked police car at 160 mph on a public road before the event. He is a very unassuming and eccentric character who changes everything and yet to him his behavior is perfectly normal. He thinks nothing of it. I watched most of it with a rye smile on my face. Totally and completely enjoyable!

Great film! Anthony Hopkins is excellent and the chemistry between him and the other characters is excellent. Uplifting. Everyone seems to love and respect him. DTS-HD Sound track is very good (main reason I bought the Bluray as superior to streamed version). Highly recommended.

I've had this on my shelf for a while and had never quite found it appealing enough to give a shot - too petrol-head perhaps, or maybe too dry. How wrong I was and how glad I finally found the urge to watch. The story on the face of it is a very simple one (and true) about an old age pensioner from New Zealand who finally realises his dream to head to Bonneville Salt Flats and find out just how fast he can go on his old 1920's motorbike (the Indian of the title) that he has been tinkering with and adapting in the shed he lives in, but it's the journey that is revealing perhaps more than the reason for doing it.At home, his existence is slow and made up of routine (not least, peeing on his lemon tree each day..), and the slowness of his movements as an old man is contrasted with the speed that he dreams of on his bike. As he starts off on his journey we really get a feel for what a transparently nice guy he is, interacting with some random Americans along the way and the movie unabashedly supporting the idea of "Do as you would be done unto". His openness, pragmatic, accepting and trusting nature with a twinkle of mischief winning people inexorably over.. To be fair, it could all be a bit too much niceness and not enough actually happening, but director Roger Donaldson somehow pulls off a hat trick that works if you let it.With a tone reminiscent of the road trip in Middle America of The Straight Story [DVD], or the unpretentiousness of The Dish [DVD] [2001], this is less excitement, and more slow burn character piece, and as such the success of the movie lies mostly on the shoulders of Anthony Hopkins, in what turns out to be unexpectedly perfect casting. His accent might be all over the place, but he has nailed the voice of this character's soul perfectly.The final scenes are effectively shot convincingly portraying the speed when it needs to, and the photography does justice to both the home scenes in New Zealand, as well as to the expanse of the Bonneville flats in Utah we see towards the end, but it's not the technical details that make this a treat - it's simply that the movies heart is absolutely in the right place.9/10

Great film

An interesting filmWell acted.

SUPER FILM WHETHER YOU ARE A BIKER OR NOT. TOO GOOD TO MISS.

Very inspiring

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Well...it's Sir Tony, so what's not to love about this movie? Burt Munroe... a Kiwi from Dwn Unda... a genius of a man with such a single-minded focus on his lifetime dream that NOTHING will stop him. An amazing TRUE STORY of a very kind man and the Angels he meets along the way to help him (they all can't be coincidences). Burt's speed records STILL STAND TO THIS DAY! The man was fearless and unstoppable. A GREAT story with GREAT Actors that took the Director 25 YEARS to bring to the screen as HIS life long dream and passion. Thx. Sir Anthony... you're always a treasure to watch. Such respect you brought to this real life chaacter. REQUIRED VIEWING for ALL of us with dreams. Burt Munroe... LEGEND!

Ótimo mas idioma só inglês

Très beau film d'aventure basé sur une histoire vraie, l'Amérique en 66-67 en toile de fond.

No le doy las cinco estrellas porque no lleva audio en castellano, solo tiene en este idioma los subtitulos.Pelicula imprescindible para moteros y muy recomendable para el resto del publico.Basada en hechos reales, la pelicula es muy entretenida, tiene buen ritmo y está muy bien contada.Anthony Hopkins estuvo propuesto para el Oscar,al mejor actor , con todo merecimiento.Burt Munro, record de velocidad en moto de menos de 1000 cc,en 1967 .! Lo logrò a la edad de 68 años!!, y sigueimbatido.