The World’s Fastest Indian

The World’s Fastest Indian

The story of New Zealander Burt Monro who broke the land-speed world record at the Bonneville Salt Flats on his rebuilt 1920 Indian motorcycle. A movie that exudes affection and goodwill, The World’s Fastest Indian is an unabashed mash note to a lovely character from New Zealand’s recent past. Burt Munro, played by Anthony Hopkins, is a cantankerous Kiwi with an obsession: he’s been tinkering with his 1920s-era Indian brand motorcycle for years, pushing it to ever-faster speeds. It’s the 1960s, and Burt has the utterly mad idea of taking the bike to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, site of world records for speed racing. The movie takes a while to get to the journey–and then the journey takes a while–but the genial atmosphere prevails. (People of a certain age, for whom the word “Bonneville” evokes pleasant associations with hotrods and world-speed records, will not be disappointed in the film’s location shooting, or its sense of awe.) Hopkins is not quite on-the-money casting for

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