Formulaic !
- F1: The Movie review by KB
Brad Pitt can't save this dud. You would think that it would be difficult to make a film about Formula 1 & it not be exciting but i found large sections of this film tedious. Bardem & the Irish lady are quite suited to their roles but overall the story & script is far fetched & flimsy & i found myself not rooting for the drivers/team at the finale .It just comes across as a promotional vehicle for the sport. Similar type films "Rush" & "Le Mans 66" i found more entertaining & more emotionally involving.
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Box-Box Office Hit
- F1: The Movie review by griggs
I’ll admit, I was hesitant going in—how could a 60-year-old pass as a Formula 1 driver? Yet it works. F1: The Movie is proper summer-blockbuster fare: sleek, entertaining, and surprisingly heartfelt. Directed by Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick), it brings some of that aerial flair to the track with roaring engines, punchy montages, and big-screen spectacle. It’s a classic Bruckheimer production: polished, predictable, but never dull. Structurally, it shares DNA with Ted Lasso—underdog grit, team chemistry, personal redemption. No major twists, and that’s fine. Hans Zimmer’s score does precisely what you expect, punctuating every hairpin turn and emotional beat with turbocharged gravitas. The cast is solid, and while the plot doesn’t break new ground, the film knows exactly what it is and delivers with confidence. It’s great fun, full throttle, even if it isn’t one for the ages.
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Over praised and overated trabant like garbage
- F1: The Movie review by cr
Brad pitt [spoilers] stars as the worst F1 driver whose ever lived. At practice he piles it into the wall. He wipes out his team mate twice and crashes twice. And yet people keep telling him how great he is and what a brilliant driver and strategist he is!
I dont think he finished a race until his highly unlikely tiresome hollywood ending. Not the worst film i have ever seen but a contender.
I am a fan of F1 and where the racing scenes and music are quite exciting at the begining it gets spoiled by the dull rote and highly unlikely story. For a start brad is knocking on 60 and most of the F1 drivers are super fit atheltes in their 20's and 30's. Guess what brad gets his shirt off!
I know a bit of summer blockbuster poetic licence is called for but this is just terrible and not fun.
Rush is a hundred times better watch that instead.
Only if you are a brad pitt fan.
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Sports Drama with Exciting Race Scenes
- F1: The Movie review by GI
This is a film that can only really be fully enjoyed on the biggest cinema screen you can find and of course it's all about the racing scenes which are fast, exciting and all embracing. This is a good old fashioned sports underdog film with a mismatched pair of protagonists and a great cast that does everything it sets out to do and that's entertain the viewer. Brad Pitt plays a former champion Formula One racing driver, Sonny, who thirty years before barely survived a huge crash, became a gambler and briefly an NYC taxi driver (a shame we didn't get a flashback to that) and now tours in his van taking race car driving spots wherever he can find them. He's only in it for the buzz of the race having long ago lost any attraction to the wealth and fame. He gets a final chance from his old racing partner Ruben (Javier Bardem) to drive once again in a Formula One car for Ruben's failing team. Sonny's age and somewhat cynical approach rubs up his teammate, up and coming young driver Joshua (Damson Idris), the wrong way. But Sonny soon brings strategy and tactics to the team that are close to reckless and rule breaking but soon bring results. But the money men are threatening to take it all away! There's a great performance, as ever, from Kerry Condon, as the race car designer of the team and a spot of romance for Pitt. But overall this is all a mix of macho cinema, somewhat melodramatic yet all presented with panache making for a surreal and exciting film experience.
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Very boring, revvy, silly racing car romp
- F1: The Movie review by PV
This is one of those films which I realised, by the 30 minutes point, was not for me. By the first plot point and minute 24 we all know where this is going.
I am not F1 or sports fan BUT I did rather like RUSH (2013) with the excellent German actor Daniel Bruhl.
What this lacks is heart - it is ALL about racing F1. Some speedqueens may enjoy it, and its laddish angle - though I very much doubt there are many bigbusted blonde babes in the pit stops...
Not my sort of thing, and amazed it won an Oscar for sound as I can barely hear the dialogue - obvs one needs a decent 16 speaker surround sound set-up to appreciate the brrrrums and the rrrrroars and the rrrevs, Yawn.
It's produced by Lewis Hamilton, which shoudl have been a warning sign for wokeness and tickboxery.
I'd only watch all of this film if you paid me folding money.
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