Need for Speed vs The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight has the higher audience score (8.5/10 against 6.4/10 for Need for Speed). Need for Speed is the shorter watch at 2h 11m compared with 2h 32m. The Dark Knight is the older of the two (2008 against 2014). Both are action, crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Need for Speed posterNeed for Speed2014 VS The Dark Knight posterThe Dark Knight2008
Need for SpeedThe Dark Knight
Audience score★ 6.4/10★ 8.5/10
Year20142008
Length2h 11m2h 32m
GenresAction, Crime, Drama, ThrillerAction, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country–United Kingdom
DirectorScott WaughChristopher Nolan
Main castAaron Paul, Rami Malek, Dominic Cooper, Imogen Poots, Harrison GilbertsonNestor Carbonell, Aaron Eckhart, Monique Gabriela Curnen, Cillian Murphy, Anthony Michael Hall

Synopsis

Need for Speed

The film revolves around a local street-racer who partners with a rich and arrogant business associate, only to find himself framed by his colleague and sent to prison. After he gets out, he joins a New York-to-Los Angeles race to get revenge. But when the ex-partner learns of the scheme, he puts a massive bounty on the racer's head, forcing him to run a cross-country gauntlet of illegal racers in all manner of supercharged vehicles.

The Dark Knight

Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.

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