F1 - Movie Review

0:00 All right, one of my anticipated movies of the year and I'm jacked. Not because I'm about to see it, because I already saw it. I'm jacked to talk about it. Let's do it. [Music] So, F1 stars Brad Pittz, directed by Joseph Kazinski, most notably directed Top Gun Maverick. I say most notably because the concept was at least when I saw the trailer for this was if he can give us that in the cockpit visceral intense feeling he gave us in the Jets like in the fighter jets Top Gun Maverick but now in race cars. I'm in. And yeah, he does. That's the review. He did it. Brad Pitt plays Sunonny Hayes, an aged hot shot race car driver of yester year. Javier Bardam owns a

0:46 company that races cars, but they're the underdogs. They don't win a lot. So, he brings on Brad Pitt, this old dog, to show him some new tricks, hopefully win. And it makes sense that the director of Top Gun Maverick, a movie about Maverick, this aged hot shot pilot of yestery year, being brought on to show the young guns what's up. Hopefully, show them some new tricks. Directed F1. And as for the performances, I I'll get to the raising in a second. Sometimes you got to bury the lead. But the acting all around was great. Brad Pitt with his old cool guy energy, which is a lot different than Brad Pitt used to be with his young cool guy energy. He has the old cool guy voice now. Have you noticed that? Felt like it started with Aldo Rain. He just kind of morphed it into his personality. And I want my scalp. Bonjouro. Not the word I'd use. That was

1:31 constructive. Carrie Condan, Javier Bardam, both as solid as we know them to be. who really surprised me or at the very least I was surprised how the movie illustrated his character is Damson Idris. He plays the young racer and you think you know how this is going to go down. Brad Pitts the old seasoned racer. This guy's the young hot shot. So Brad Pitt's going to show him what's up. Kind of. It's more layered than that though. They do such a good job in the intro of this movie showing you exactly who Brad Pitt is and why we're rooting for him. He doesn't race for the money or the glory. He races for the love of racing. Whether you're rooting for him for that or rooting for this guy to get the shot he never had, we're rooting for him. But I was surprised how well this movie showed the perspective of Damson Idris's

2:17 character, uh, JP Joshua Pierce. He's this young racer for a company that doesn't win races. Of course, he feels like his job's in jeopardy because they brought on Brad Pitt's character, but you understand that perspective. It's not like you have protagonist and antagonist. What you have are two protagonists who need to learn to work together. still kind of sounds like, as I say it out loud, a hundred other movies you might have felt like you've seen. But I feel like that's the magic of Joseph Kazinski. I think that's that's apparently what he's good at or what he's become good at. Taking a fundamental character story that feels classic, injecting it with new energy to make it feel rejuvenated and alive and giving you some damn good summer blockbuster fun. How are the races? They're amazing. They're intense. They're visceral. The hope and the goal

3:04 was achieved here. Put multiple cameras on the cockpit so they got multiple camera angles and make the audience feel like they are on the track. Achieved. Mischief managed. Like Top Gun Maverick before it. You do see that there's no substitute for the real thing. There is one weird scene of CGI. It's just with people walking. It's not even one of the races. I was like that that looks more CGI than anything else in the movie to the point of it feeling out of place. probably would have been okay to just cut that shot out so I can say, "Hey, it didn't feel like there was any green screen in the movie whatsoever." And maybe it was the camera angle was wrong, the depth of field wasn't right to where it looked green screen. Maybe it wasn't, but it I'm just saying that looked very green screen. Possible that's a

3:50 testament to how real the rest of the movie feels. Tinfoil hat moment. They did it on purpose, so that would then be the conversation. I don't know. The movie's two and a half hours long. It's a funny thing with that. You know how I [ __ ] a lot about movies that are too long, they feel too long, they are too long. Bring under two-hour blockbusters back again. That's what I say. This movie is about 2 hours 30 minutes. I was locked in the entire time. Maybe it was the races that had me at the edge of my seat. The character drama I didn't expect to be invested in, but I was. Then I'm out of the movie. I'm at home. I'm thinking of what to say in my video, and I do run into that feeling of, well, yeah, maybe you could have made the movie a little shorter, consolidated some of the run time. There were a couple of moments where I was like it that race ended the same way. I I have the same feeling. Feels a little redundant, but you don't hit it until

4:36 later. When you're in the theater, you're just in it to win it. It doesn't change the fact the movie it's an absolute blast. And for the record, I do think Hollywood should help save movie theaters by giving them better [ __ ] to show on their screens. My point being, F1 is that it's the better [ __ ] It's not often these days, and let's face it, fewer and farther between I walk out of a movie theater going, "That is why I look forward to movies." But for me, F1 was a pretty solid example. It's a story of tough love, mentorship, redemption, teamwork, which also implies sacrifice with intense races, solid momentum, character drama I didn't expect, but was invested in. I also appreciate the racing to drama ratio. Sometimes you go into a racing movie and what you get is a racing movie or like a

5:21 couple races. If they're going to do that, the character drama better be good. If it is, great. F1 knows the races are why you are there. To feel like you're there on the racetrack, in the cockpit, in the driver's seat, to feel the intensity very few have been able to feel before with enough character drama to give weight to the races. And yeah, F1 is aacacular. [Applause] Racial F1. Have you seen it? What did you think about it? Comes out next weekend though. Or in the meantime, what's your favorite racing movie? Whatever it is, whatever you think, comment below. Let me know. And as always, if you like what you've seen here and you want to see more, click right here to see more.