In this modern hero epic from the sports world, Pitt takes us into the cockpit of his racing car as a Formula 1-Punk.
Director Joseph Kosinski simply loves the speed and lets his stars share it: In “F1 – The Film” Brad Pitt does not take a seat in the cockpit of a fighter bomber, but at least behind the wheel of a racing car. Mach 1 will certainly not reach in Formula 1 – this was reserved for his colleague Tom Cruise in “Top Gun: Maverick” – but still be much faster than every normal road user would survive without considerable stomach problems and whipped -up trauma.
Scene from “F1 – The Film”
Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem), as the head of the rather luckless team APXGP, is bringing back his former racing driver mump Sonny Hayes (PITT). It stood at the peak of his career in the 1990s until a serious accident caused relegation. Since then, Sonny has only been over water as a occasional racing driver, but now he finally has the late chance of starting up with the newcomer Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris). Unfortunately, the two of them cannot cope with each other.
Scene from “F1 – The Film”
Turn to original locations
F1 keeps what the title promises: At least two thirds of the 155 -film minutes, we have engine noises in the ear and pictures of crazy tire, sparkling body -spraying body or daring overtaking maneuvers, and a few spectacular crashs are of course also included. No wonder that the racing scenes look so realistic here – after all, On the real international race tracks on Grand Prix weekends, and seven-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton is one of the producers.
Scene from “F1 – The Film”
Formula 1-punk
The rest of the time we learn what it means to do a miracle: Although Sonny is initially extremely skeptical about his comeback and does not show a big team spirit, he will be racing over all obstacles in order to finally reach his dreamy and to fall into a real trance behind the wheel. A little tension away from motorsport is also created by a small intrigue, but Sonny is definitely not the man who can be captured for such power struggles.
With this racing stable fairy tale, which has several thousand horsepower, Brad Pitt always cuts a good figure and cannot present his muscular body often enough by tattoos and scars. His aging Sonny-Boy is a guy full of idiosyncrasies that has an old VW bus as the main residence, hanging on a set of playing cards with fervor, liking to jog over the future racetrack, would never touch a winner's cup from superstition, show a punctual attitude during interviews and is also completely unadjusted.
Scene from “F1 – The Film”
Hahnenkämpfe on the racetrack
With such eccentricity, he inevitably hits the young star Pearce, who also likes to deal with his ego in front of him, and between the two – much to a disadvantage for a few cars – high -speed cock battles. A woman in this racing circus tries to mediate here: Kerry Condon plays a racing car designer who finally develops a more than professional interest in Sonny.
Bardem, on the other hand, has a rather withdrawn role: his ex-racing driver Ruben Cervantes is no longer allowed to put himself behind the wheel, but always has to appear as a promoter, cheer on speeches or skeptically shake his head because he temporarily loses belief in Sonny. He would not have to do that, because although one hopes that the plot may not turn into the home straight as inevitably smoothly, everything comes exactly as a modern hero epic from the sports world has to be revealed.
Scene from “F1 – The Film”
Maverick clone
F1 fans can not get enough of the spectacular racing scenes from the first person perspective, but you shouldn't keep the weaknesses of the film: Kosinski uses numerous clichés and really left nothing to chance, but rather designed his main character on the drawing board. Sonny Hayes looks like a perfect clone by Navy-Pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell through his appearance and career.
The title also definitely comes from the showy and one wonders whether there can ever be another racing driver film about “F1 – the film”. But that may be unfounded, because such a number title also has an advantage. In theory, an infinite number of sequels are conceivable: F2 – F3 – F4…. However, since Brad Pitt last drives away and finds a new job, it is rather unlikely that this Sonny will take part in the Boliden Rodeo again (and you can wish him a happy pensioner as a classic car).
3 out of 5 tire changes in the highest hurry