>>212146648Definitely, but also for similar reasons. F1 isn't really that good of a movie storytelling wise. It's more or less just your standard sports movie but with Brad Pitt, but it's well paced and the racing scenes are cool and plentiful.
MI:8 had cool stunts but it spends so much time with dour, self-serious exposition and wanking off Cruise as the messiah of movies that it sinks itself. It isn't fun enough to be action kino and it isn't smart enough to actually be compelling as a serious action drama, while F1 just recognizes what it is and goes for the former. It's kind of just like a not as good version of Top Gun 2 but with cars instead of jets.