Mikekay1000
Joined Dec 2020
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Sorry to sound negative, this Joesph Kosinski directed and Bruckheimer-produced film has quite a few things going for it, but it's all terribly unrealistic and towards the end it does feel too long, and the scenes between races get increasingly boring.
I'd even go as far as to say that the campy 1990 racing car Bruckheimer movie Days of Thunder deals with post-crash PTSD and the recovery process much better than this film does, as the characters are involved in career-ending crashes that they brush off way too quicky. And this is the film's main drawback; it's so incredibly unrealistic, and surprisingly low stakes that makes it limp over the proverbial finish line. If we can forget that a racer 30 years divorced from F1 could quickly learn how to operate the incredibly technologically-sophisticated F1 cars of today is quite laughable, but even if you can swallow that, the outright insolence and skulduggery on display in this fictional F1 racing team is completely unrealistic.
Furthermore, the talented 40 something-year-old actress Kerry Condon (Better Call Saul) plays a trailblazing female technical director in the F1 team; an interesting character premise, but this goes nowhere after she becomes Brad's love interest. She claims that she strictly never gets personally involved with anyone at work and this quickly goes out the window after a few tequilas at a club. The film definitely panders to Brad's ego a little too much, sure, he gets the woman and wins the race, but the lack of depth in any of the characters is really jarring at times.
The race scenes, however, are a sight to behold, but by the last race, it does get a little old. Personally, if you are a racing fan, I would recommend the 2011 Senna documentary or the film Rush, or even Ford Vs Ferrari if you are looking for genuinely engaging and more realistic stories involving car racing.
In short, it's up there with Top Gun 2 with sound design, cinematography, editing and music, yet without the high stakes and genuine emotion (Ice's death, the deadly mission etc...). It's not bad, but only at the most superficial level.
I'd even go as far as to say that the campy 1990 racing car Bruckheimer movie Days of Thunder deals with post-crash PTSD and the recovery process much better than this film does, as the characters are involved in career-ending crashes that they brush off way too quicky. And this is the film's main drawback; it's so incredibly unrealistic, and surprisingly low stakes that makes it limp over the proverbial finish line. If we can forget that a racer 30 years divorced from F1 could quickly learn how to operate the incredibly technologically-sophisticated F1 cars of today is quite laughable, but even if you can swallow that, the outright insolence and skulduggery on display in this fictional F1 racing team is completely unrealistic.
Furthermore, the talented 40 something-year-old actress Kerry Condon (Better Call Saul) plays a trailblazing female technical director in the F1 team; an interesting character premise, but this goes nowhere after she becomes Brad's love interest. She claims that she strictly never gets personally involved with anyone at work and this quickly goes out the window after a few tequilas at a club. The film definitely panders to Brad's ego a little too much, sure, he gets the woman and wins the race, but the lack of depth in any of the characters is really jarring at times.
The race scenes, however, are a sight to behold, but by the last race, it does get a little old. Personally, if you are a racing fan, I would recommend the 2011 Senna documentary or the film Rush, or even Ford Vs Ferrari if you are looking for genuinely engaging and more realistic stories involving car racing.
In short, it's up there with Top Gun 2 with sound design, cinematography, editing and music, yet without the high stakes and genuine emotion (Ice's death, the deadly mission etc...). It's not bad, but only at the most superficial level.
