(Jmovie Review) Over Drive

“Keep your promise, and be the best in the world”.

That quote might be haunting Hiyama Naozumi since the shadow of someone he loved kept following him. Naozumi is a talented car racer for SPICA Racing Factory. His brother, Atsuhiro Hiyama, is a chief mechanic at the same factory. They used to race together on their bicycle when they were child. When they grow up, they have different path, Naozumi in car racing, Atsuhiro finds his love fixing things. 

Naozumi aims for WRC (World Race Championship), and considers what he has been doing is just stepping stone to aim higher goals. He is well-known not only for his natural gift of racing, but also his temper. His ambition to get his goal sometimes enraged his brother. He tends to disobey his brother’s warning while driving. Deep in his heart, Naozumi still keeps his jealousy of his first love, Hina, his childhood friend. He declared his love to her, but it seems that Hina preferred Atsuhiro over him. 

Well, not much I can tell about the movie actually. The most scenes is in racing field, in and outside Japan. Other than that is in SPICA garage where Atsuhiro fixes and creates car machine. Even when a new manager, a female, comes, she doesn’t really change the tense of the racing. But, thanks to her arrival, she can make the brothers reveal their past, and both of them can compromise how they have been feeling to each other for the past 6-8 years, after Hina left to Boston. 

The one-hour-forty-four-minutes movie seems too short to elaborate the emotion of the characters here. Naozumi whose bad temper often enrages people around him, has his suppressed feeling that he throws up right before the competition. Atsuhiro seems to be busy most of the time looks like he’s hiding something with his ambition creating something. Unfortunately, the movie is too short to tell about it. One mechanic in SPICA factory, Masuda Junpei has his hidden talent designing a car. After Endo Hikaru, the female manager of Naozumi, finds out, I was waiting for him to take action when there’s a problem or something that later shows everyone that he has that talent. But, I waited until forever. It is a waste not to reveal his talent. But then again, if only this is not a movie, maybe, all characters can show their important roles to something they dedicate into, SPICA factory.

Overall, this is a recommended movie for those who love car racing. I cannot comment much about it since I’m not into car racing :D . The reason why I watch this of course to see so many ikemens acting here :D Starting from Masahiro Higashide acts as the mechanic. He is soooo manly here, even just looking at his hands. LOL. Mackenyu acts as Naozumi, playing as the trouble maker racer really suits him. He can show both his extravagant life as a racer and someone lonely very wonderfully. To tell you the truth, I know that Mackenyu is gorgeous but I’m not really fond of him. I think he improves his acting recently, especially if he plays antagonist. His smile is wicked 😍😍 Besides the two main lead, there are other two eye candies here, Takumi Kitamura and Keita Machida. My recommendation for you who don’t find car racing interesting, just watch this movie for the ikemens. You won’t regret it 😎😎😎

Overdrive Casts:

Masahiro Higashide as Atsuhiro Hiyama

Mackenyu Arata as Naozumi Hiyama

Aoi Morikawa as Endo Hikaru

Keita Machida as Masuda Junpei

Takumi Kitamura as Shinkai Akira

Yoshida Kotaro as Tsuzuki Issei

Jun Kaname as Hisatoshi Kagawa

Release date: June 1, 2018

Over Drive trailer

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