{"id":675705,"date":"2025-06-18T04:11:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T01:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/f1-the-movie-what-the-critics-are-saying\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T04:11:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T01:11:51","slug":"f1-the-movie-what-the-critics-are-saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/f1-the-movie-what-the-critics-are-saying\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018F1: The Movie\u2019: What the Critics Are Saying"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tFollowing the New York premiere of F1: The Movie<\/em> on Monday evening, the first reviews of the film from critics have been coming in, and they\u2019ve been general<\/a>ly favorable.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe high-octane Formula One racing drama, directed by Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Tron: Legacy<\/em>), stars\u00a0Brad Pitt\u00a0and\u00a0Damson Idris. The film follows Pitt\u2019s Sonny Hayes, a former F1 driver who comes out of retirement to mentor and team up with a younger driver, Idris\u2019 Joshua Pearce.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs of Tuesday afternoon,\u00a0F1: The Movie<\/em> had a score of 84 percent from 58 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, and clocked in at 69 percent on Metacritic from 24 reviews.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film, from App<\/a>le Original Films and Warner Bros., speeds into theaters on June 27. It also stars Kerry Condon, Javier Bardem,\u00a0Tobias Menzies and Kim Bodnia.<\/p>\n

\n\tRead on for key excerpts from some of the most prominent early reviews following the New York premiere of F1: The Movie<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Hollywood Reporter<\/em>\u2018s arts and culture critic Lovia Gyarkye wrote in her review, \u201cThe strongest scenes in\u00a0F1<\/em>, which boasts a two-and-a-half hour runtime, are these moments during race weekends, when Kosinki embeds his fictional team with real ones.\u00a0Fans of the sport will recognize cameos from Verstappen, Leclerc, Carlos Sainz, Lando Norris and many more drivers. Hans Zimmer\u2019s adrenalized score ups the ante, adding tension to already nail-biting moments like a driver making a dangerous turn on a slick course or mechanics in the pit having mere seconds to switch out a car\u2019s tires. The impressive craft of these scenes extends to Kosinki\u2019s exploration of the various technologies, like road simulators, used to help drivers gain any advantage. Of course, there are some unrealistic elements in\u00a0F1<\/em>, moments that might have sticklers raising an eyebrow, but the film doesn\u2019t feel any less dramatic than the real thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tScreenrant<\/em>\u2018s Mae Abdulbaki wrote<\/a>, \u201cF1 The Movie\u00a0<\/em>is essentially a two-and-a-half-hour commercial with a surprisingly compelling story. Brands are littered throughout the film, and the title itself is pulled from Formula One racing. It\u2019s not original at all, and yet I was riveted by every minute of the film. Directed by Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick<\/em>) from a screenplay by Ehren Kruger,\u00a0F1 The Movie\u00a0<\/em>is engaging and entertaining, building momentum and laying the groundwork for character payoffs. It could\u2019ve easily phoned it in, as so many brand-related movies<\/a> are wont to do, but Kosinski\u2019s film makes us feel something.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRoss Bonaime, with Collider<\/em>, wrote in his review<\/a>, \u201cDespite the excitement and stunning race footage that\u00a0F1<\/em>\u00a0provides,\u00a0it\u2019s also placed in a story that we\u2019ve heard countless times before.\u00a0And while that\u2019s in no way damning here \u2014 not by a long shot \u2014 it is a bit silly at times in how much it plays in the clich\u00e9s. Like a good racer, you\u2019ll probably be able to tell where every turn and twist is going to go, yet it\u2019s the quality and impressive nature in which\u00a0F1<\/em>\u00a0hits these turns that puts this in conversation for the best racing film ever made. When the excitement and tension of the races are as good as they are here, you can ignore a bit of canned dialogue or a goofy trope that has played itself out one too many times.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Guardian<\/em>\u2018s Peter Bradshaw wrote<\/a>, \u201cWith that amused-cowpoke face of his squashed into his safety helmet, making his sixtysomething cherubic chops bulge in towards his nose, Brad Pitt gets behind the wheel in this outrageously cheesy but fiercely and extravagantly shot Formula One melodrama. Along with a lot of enjoyable hokum about the old guy mentoring the rookie hothead (a plot it broadly shares with\u00a0Pixar\u2019s 2006 adventure Cars<\/em>), F1 the Movie gives you the corporate sheen, real-life race footage with Brad as the star in an unreasonably priced car, the tech fetish of the cars themselves (almost making you forget how amazingly ugly they are) with brand names speckling every square inch of every surface, the simulation graphics writ large, and the bizarre occult spectacle of motor racing itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNicholas Barber, with the BBC<\/em>, wrote<\/a>, \u201cThe biggest issue with F1<\/em>, though, is not its insistence on showing its leading man in a flattering light, but its equivalent, fawning attitude towards Formula One itself. Shot on real circuits with the full co-operation of the organisers and participants (Lewis Hamilton is credited as a producer), it\u2019s essentially a glossy corporate promotional film with so much distracting product placement that you\u2019re more likely to remember the brand names than the characters. There is no wisp of criticism or scepticism, and no hint of anything exploitative or sleazy. Formula One fans may be pleased by the glimpses of their favourite drivers, but F1<\/em> is so intent on being positive about its milieu that none of these men is allowed to be a proper antagonist, or even to say anything rude about Sonny. Nobody can misbehave, and nothing terrible can happen to any of the characters, so there is no tension to speak of. The story simply hops around the world, ticking off every Grand Prix in a season. In the first of these, Ruben\u2019s team fails miserably, but as the weeks go by\u2026 well, if you scribbled down what you guessed the structure might be, you\u2019d be absolutely correct \u2014 except that your version might have some more high-stakes jeopardy than the actual film.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIndieWire<\/em>\u2018s head film critic David Ehrlich wrote in his review<\/a>, \u201cFormula One has always been a testament to the difficulty of striking the right balance between power and precision, and F1<\/em> embodies that aspect of the sport all too well. Always entertaining for how effectively it welds hyper-modern spectacle to the chassis of a classic underdog story (the latter part of that equation paving the way for Pitt\u2019s most Billy Bean-coded performance since Moneyball<\/em>), Kosinski\u2019s film can be propulsive and exhilarating in spurts, but in working so hard to satisfy newbies and experts at the same time that it often struggles to seize on its simplest pleasures. Misfits becoming teammates. Losers finding redemption. Cars going really, really fast.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSophie Butcher, with Empire<\/em>, wrote<\/a>, \u201cFor Formula 1 fans, the sheer accuracy of\u00a0F1<\/em>\u2019s depiction of the sport will be giddy-making; for agnostics, the races may feel a touch repetitive, and the level of detail may go over some heads. But whatever your relationship to the sport, the magnitude of what Kosinski and co have accomplished is undeniable. Fasten your seatbelts, and see this on the biggest screen you possibly can.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tUSA Today<\/em>\u2018s Brian Truitt wrote in his review<\/a>, \u201cThe movie isn\u2019t shy about lapping many a trope, yet the white-knuckle action sequences are where F1<\/em> lives and breathes. Kosinski wants audiences to feel the danger of essentially sitting in a rocket that can go 200 mph, and the euphoria of passing a foe in a Ferrari or having a straight line to the checkered flag. Those go a long way in forgiving the multitude of subplots and the toolbox of car cliches.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Associated Press<\/em>\u2018 film critic Jake Coyle wrote<\/a>, \u201cF1<\/em> steers predictably to the finish line, cribbing here and there from sports dramas before it. (Tobias Menzies plays a board member with uncertain corporate goals.) When F1<\/em> does, finally, quiet down, for one blissful moment, the movie, almost literally, soars. It\u2019s not quite enough to forget all the high-octane macho dramatics before it, but it\u2019s enough to glimpse another road F1<\/em> might have taken.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDavid Fear, with Rolling Stone<\/em>, wrote in his review<\/a>, \u201cThe way that Pitt injects his presence, his physicality, his charm, his well-honed screen persona, his particular mix of discipline and DGAF effortlessness, and his backhanded way of making outdated, Golden Age Hollywood roguishness feel completely somehow timeless is what makes this a winner. He even manages to upstage the cars. It\u2019s a turn that reminds you of Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, William Holden, and, notably\u00a0Steve McQueen, no stranger to movies about racing. (It can\u2019t be a coincidence that one of Hayes\u2019 Zen-like pastimes is throwing a ball against a wall like McQueen in\u00a0The Great Escape.<\/em>)\u00a0F1<\/em>\u00a0couldn\u2019t feel more contemporary in its focus over a sport that\u2019s the current obsession of millions, yet couldn\u2019t feel more like a flashback to a bygone age where a larger-than-life movie star was the only necessary I.P. This is what blockbusters used to look like. Come for the most impressive, lustrous car that a gajillion-dollar budget can buy. The reason to stay, however, is the driver.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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