F1

Enjoyable.Great costume design.Brad Pitt is cool and hot and looks unsettlingly young. Definitely lacked in the script. Lacklustre character development and plotting (with no development in the bigger areas and a lot of unnecessary underdeveloped side plotting.) Annoying how the genius lady car designer needed Brad Pitt to give the car a better design, and then of course falls in love with him just so he can go off and leave her in the end to go ‘slay more dragons’.  Could have been shorter. Could have used less crashes in order to better maintain the climax. Could have had fewer and less obvious tropes and cliches. Couldn’t have smacked any harder with its big, corporate, commercial messaging.  But I’m not hating, this is a great, fun, summer blockbuster. Brad Pitt nails the role written for him, and while the film does not aid the viewer to understand much about what is going on at the race level, it does a great job making F1 incredibly sexy (which was ofc the core aim). Solid 3 stars from me for hitting that aim and for being so visually and energetically charged. Very objectively entertaining despite numerous issues abundantly clear on — not super close— scrutinisation.