>>212262730You're not wrong. I saw this with some buddies a few nights ago and thought it was watchable but extremely medicore.
It's an end-to-end corporate product. It was clearly watched frame-by-frame by teams of executives from Apple, F1, Mercedes and other sponsors so that any "problematic" content could be removed.
The other huge problem is that they couldn't depict anything associated with F1 in a negative light. It's hard to make a sports movie without the evil rival. Imagine Rocky without Apollo Creed. Imagine Mighty Ducks 2 without Iceland. Yes, they had a "villain" but it was weak.
The script felt like an AI-generated mishmash of generic sports cliches
>the grizzled, haunted vet vs the brash hotheaded up-and-comer >*catastrophically crashes car* "well, it's a start...">"he feels like he's flying out there..." Some of the racing shots were beautifully done, but I thought it got old, fast. The races between the first and last one were forgettable.
Plus, why would Toto offer a last place driver who DNF a spot on his team.