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The World's Fastest Indian

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The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle—a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.

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Status: Released

Released Date: 2005-10-12

Runtime: 127 mins

Director: Roger Donaldson

Writer: Roger Donaldson

Spoken language: Français, English

Genres: Drama, Adventure, History

Original title: The World's Fastest Indian

Production Companies: New Zealand Film Commission, 2929 Productions, OLC / Rights Entertainment, Tanlay, New Zealand Film Production Fund, 3 Dogs & a Pony, Park Road Post, WFI Productions Ltd.

Production Countries: New Zealand, Switzerland, Japan, United States of America

Reviews

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Rangan
> Chasing a dream halfway across the world. One of the inspiring biopic I have ever seen. It is about chasing a dream and it is never too late to do that so. Based on the story of a New Zealand motorcyclist Burt Munro. After spending 25 years to build a faster motorbike in the down under, now a very old Munro travel halfway across the earth to Bonneville speedway in the US to set a record. So what's the remaining of the tale reveals is that does his dream becomes reality or not. Awesome performance by Anthony Hopkins, but in some parts I was distracted by his fake Kiwi accent. Overall, not bad with his effort, he achieved the goal conveniently. It is one of the best road movie that directed by the 'Species' filmmaker. The 120 minutes was too short, but well covered story with inclusion of messages like anti smoking and alcohol consumption. It is a decade old film, never too late to watch a fine film like this, but inside I feel regret for the delay. I had no idea about the storyline. I thought it might be about Indians and then thought American Indians, but realised only while watching it that it is about a motorbike called Indian. It is surely a good family movie, especially if there is a motorbike maniac in the house. Highly recommended by me. 9/10
2016-06-24

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