8/10
It occurred to me when typing the above that this is a movie that deserves a better (or at least a more original) title than....Rush. At the very least it's an accurate description of the feeling watching the racing sequences - those are tremendously well done and really give you the exhilaration of being there.
Rush is going to draw inevitable comparisons to Senna, and for the first hour or so it doesn't do a whole lot to distinguish itself (again, in-car sequences aside). The period setting (recreated here, historical in Senna), the two conflicting drivers with charisma, their off-track pursuits...it's all well done, but familiar.
Where I felt the movie really set out on its own and succeeded was in the last hour or so - basically everything from August 1 1976's "decisive race" onward. The August 1 race is tension-filled, especially if you don't know the story as I didn't, and the aftermath brings a lot of welcome gravitas to Hunt and Lauda that was missing in the broad strokes that defined them in the first half. Maybe the ending was a little more protracted than it needed to be, but not by much. After recently seeing a couple of movies with final-act let-downs, it was nice to see one that took it up a notch instead.
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