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32 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxRarely do movies portray the elderly with such admiration and respect.
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliDoes what it sets out to do: educates about a mostly unknown historical figure (without doctoring the facts too much), entertains, and uplifts.
- 75New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickHopkins' larger-than-life performance as the crusty and crafty Burt rivets your attention for two solid hours in this most entertaining labor of love.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttHopkins' performance flat-out works.
- 70VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthySometimes shticky biopic overcomes its cornball conventionality to become a genial entertainment, thanks to Anthony Hopkins' exceptionally engaging performance.
- 70Village VoiceMark HolcombVillage VoiceMark HolcombThe result is a film as tenacious, peculiar, and likable as Burt Munro himself.
- 70The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinHopkins delivers such a warm, winning performance that it's hard not to be won over by his loopy charm and monomaniacal passion. The film is about a man whose need for speed takes on an existential and spiritual dimension, but it's precisely its rambling, meandering, unhurried affability that makes it such a low-key pleasure.
- 70The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenThis is a film that wears a smile button on its sleeve along with its happy heart. It believes that most people are absolutely wonderful, and it is well enough made so that a dusting of that dogged optimism is bound to rub off on you.
- 70Los Angeles TimesKevin CrustLos Angeles TimesKevin CrustBased on the real-life exploits of Munro, it's a boilerplate fish-out-of-water/road trip/underdog sports movie -- but it's a heck of a ride with Hopkins leading the way.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThe cockeyed devotion with which writer-director Roger Donaldson dramatizes the story of New Zealand motorcycle legend Burt Munro and his classic 1920 bike in The World's Fastest Indian is in direct proportion to the cockeyed devotion with which Munro himself pursued his lifetime goal of setting a land-speed record at Bonneville Flats, Utah.