F1 The Movie Review: Incredibly Riveting!

F1 The Movie Review: Incredibly Riveting!

‘F1 The Movie’: This sheer ecstasy grabs you in this helluva of a movie

F1 THE MOVIE Review

‘F1 THE MOVIE’ is not just a riveting movie, it’s an overwhelming fountain of emotions. Actually, a variety of emotions, evoked in plentiful amounts as we navigate its racy track and trajectory.

The film works beautifully at various levels. A sports drama, a rekindling of passion and aspirations, and a dossier of team spirit and management of conflicts.

You root for the aging Sonny Hayes (an incredibly charming Brad Pitt here), dubbed as the greatest of F1 racers and most promising phenomenon of the adrenaline pumping sports until a freak accident almost derailed his budding career.

Thirty years have passed, and Sonny is seemingly content with his nomadic racer-for-hire life until an opportunity in the form of Reuben Cervantes (a delectable Javier Bardhem), his former teammate, knocks at his door.

Reuben wants Sonny to race for his collapsing ApXGP, thereby reviving the company and resurrecting himself. But there's a catch. Sonny has to team up with Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris, shows immemse promise) the hotshot rookie whose ambitions collide massively with Sonny's gamble-like tactics and rogue, reckless racing.

After conquering the sky with ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, Director Joseph Koshinki goes terrestrial and unleashes a rare kinetic force, relying on Pitt's laid-back yet addictive magnetism and a narrative powered with brilliant writing by Ehren Kruger that pierces into the abyss of detailing. I am amazed as to how they create such stories and weave it with spectacular cinematography, camerawork and action.

The races leave you spellbound; the conflicts get under your skin. The writing gets into genes and DNA level of racers. ‘F1 THE MOVIE’ eschews melodrama and the clichés of familiar underdog story. The beats are pretty realistically and uniquely constructed.

The only thing that put me off was the sheer neglect of Hayes and Pearce's competitors. We don't even get a glimpse of them and their mental groove when the races escalate to fiery modes.