F1

Euro Racing for Americans

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Adam Gold

7/8/20251 min read

It's not quite as thrilling as being in the air flying around mountains at hundreds of miles per hour, ala Joseph Kosinski's last megahit, "Top Gun: Maverick", but "F1" is beyond a competent big-budget blockbuster. It gets in, it does what it needs to do, it gets out. Entertaining.

A good showcase for American audiences to a sport that, until the Netflix "Drive to Survive" series (which is referenced in a funny aside in the film), really didn’t know well. “NASCAR with Europeans and weird toy cars? Sounds lame…” But it's not with Pitt leading the way. "F1" is fun, cliche as hell, and it embraces that. It knows what it is, and it runs with it—summer fun at its purest.

-7/10