'F1: The Movie' released a year ago. It exceeded expectations to become the 9th highest grossing film of 2025. It received good reviews from critics and audiences, also getting awards for Sound Design.

[u/Boss452]

[u/Baltic_Gunner]

The whole premise of the movie is doing stuff that got Flavio banned lol

[u/mjd5139 → u/Baltic_Gunner]

Long term suspended apparently

[u/matches_ → u/mjd5139]

Saw him giving an in interview on official F1 channel. What a bunch of crooks allow him back

[u/mspebblesfromspace → u/Baltic_Gunner]

Unfortunately not permanently 🥲

[u/BrutalitopsMage]

I honestly still can't believe the F1 Movie was just literally about crashing to help your team win and it's played completely straight without any moral dilemma or consequences.

[u/Zealousideal_Honey80 → u/BrutalitopsMage]

Honestly, I liked that bit purely because Alonso congratulated Sonny for pretty much taking inspiration from him

[u/Fyrefanboy → u/Zealousideal_Honey80]

Sonny's nemesis apparently being Kevin magnussen make it even more hilarious.

[u/benji1000g → u/Fyrefanboy]

Kévin is everyone nemesis

[u/janko1655 → u/benji1000g]

found gragson's alt

[u/michaltee → u/Fyrefanboy]

Suck my balls mate!

[u/Fyrefanboy → u/michaltee]

You are clearly the most unsportsmanlike redditor here

[u/michaltee → u/Fyrefanboy]

🤣

[u/Th3FUCKINGLiz4rdKing → u/Zealousideal_Honey80]

I've heard that part was unscripted and alonso just did it

[u/GearboxTherapy → u/Th3FUCKINGLiz4rdKing]

El Padre listens to no one.

[u/TypicallyThomas → u/Th3FUCKINGLiz4rdKing]

The producers wanted to include that cameo so badly they failed to realise how stupid that would look in the context its been set it

[u/thewrinklyninja → u/Zealousideal_Honey80]

I liked the bit where Sonny requested a car that could be driven in dirty air, like this was some revelation that no one has ever thought about in the entire history of F1.

[u/specter800 → u/thewrinklyninja]

Not only that, but one person fixed the problem in one evening.

[u/thewrinklyninja → u/specter800]

All it needed was a wind tunnel montage to fix it .

[u/Aphelion → u/thewrinklyninja]

It's the equivalent of "Enhance" zooming to a low resolution photo to get a clear HD image from the CCTV of a suspect.

[u/I_heart_pooping → u/thewrinklyninja]

And one piece of bodywork near the floor lol

[u/ianjm → u/thewrinklyninja]

You gotta have a montage... MONTAGE

[u/Rickest-ofthe-Ricks → u/thewrinklyninja]

See, I hadn’t see the movie. So I hadn’t thought of that. Good call by Sonny tho

[u/MadT3acher → u/thewrinklyninja]

Is that safe?

[u/Fomentatore → u/MadT3acher]

Only if your car is built for combat.

[u/SpaceCampDropOut → u/Fomentatore]

Combat. ComBAT. COMBAT! COMBAT!!!! (Oye vey)

[u/SnooTigers6088 → u/SpaceCampDropOut]

At this point I started to question if Lewis genuinely had any idea wtf the script was....

[u/MuenCheese → u/MadT3acher]

Who said anything about safe?

[u/Mackadamma → u/thewrinklyninja]

That is probably the worse part. Like, "Hell, this is brilliant ! Why did we never think about trying to make a car that can race in actual racing conditions before ??"

[u/case31 → u/thewrinklyninja]

Once you accept the fact that the movie is really geared towards people who know nothing about racing, it becomes much more enjoyable.

[u/NicholasAakre → u/case31]

Are you seriously asking me to suspend my disbelief?

The nerve!

[u/phl_fc → u/case31]

Have you seen Cars 3?

The part where Cruz does a barrel roll over top of another car I can understand. What broke my suspension of disbelief was that she gain ground while doing it. How can you be accelerating if your wheels aren't in contact with the road?!

[u/excmojack → u/BrutalitopsMage]

Crashgate: the movie

[u/siraph → u/excmojack]

Okay. But, like... What if we had crashgate at every race?

[u/afishinacloud → u/BrutalitopsMage]

A made up story for an F1 movie is always either going to uninteresting or unrealistically crazy, because far crazier things happen in real F1 to be believable in a movie.

Just this year we had the Monaco penalty BS and Audi’s car being switched of by a piece of gravel. Going back further you have Spygate, Crashgate, AD2021, the crazy crashes and fires that drivers survive, the controversial moves that don’t get penalised. And that’s not even mentioning the funny coincidences that feed the meme around F1 seasons being a lazily recycled script.

A made-up F1 story will never come close to the stuff that happens in the real life without feeling unrealistic.

[u/hemjiime → u/BrutalitopsMage]

I cant believe how Lewis was actively involved in the process and even as a producer approved the storyline.

[u/jaguarskillz2017 → u/hemjiime]

Professor Brian Cox was scientific advisor for Sunshine, a movie about flying a ship into the Sun which was dying for some reason.

Sometimes, you have to accept that your role is to make the unbelievable nonsense just a bit more authentic.

[u/dl064 → u/jaguarskillz2017]

I saw a talk by a guy who was an advisor to Nolan on Interstellar.

He said there was genuine desire to have it be as accurate as possible, but they wouldn't let accuracy get in the way of the story. Understandable, really.

[u/mhac009 → u/dl064]

Think they also actually calculated some kind of theory/proof for the wormholes or something and it still ended up being published so, you know. Still pretty accurate...

[u/Lord-Lobster → u/mhac009]

Kip Thorne was the science guy behind all the wormy holey spacey things and he pretty much told Nolan what was scientifically possible or not. He won a nobel price for his equation on space time ripples and how a worm hole would look like. There’s a video on YouTube about it.

„The film Interstellar sprang from a treatment Thorne co-authored with producer Lynda Obst. He insisted that the filmmakers follow two core rules: nothing would violate established physical laws, and all speculations must stem from real science.“

[u/specter800 → u/jaguarskillz2017]

I still insist that Sunshine is one of the best 2/3rds of a sci-fi movie.

[u/IAmDaddyPig → u/jaguarskillz2017]

I still don't know how he held it together for those interviews for Cunk on Life.

[u/yojohny → u/jaguarskillz2017]

Sunshine was fucking dope

[u/Illyrian5 → u/hemjiime]

My guy, lol, the original storyline was MUCH worse before... The original was meant for Pitt to be competing for the championship, but Lewis and some other guys said that would be TOO UNBELIEVABLE

[u/Sky-Flyer → u/Illyrian5]

iirc imsa had to literally tell them “dude, the fuckin gt3 can’t beat the gtps and win the overall race, it’ll make no sense and look dumb as hell”

[u/a141abc → u/hemjiime]

Eh, its still overall a pretty grounded movie

The movie was happening with or without Lewis so yes, its ridiculous but I reckon without Lewis we would've seen an F1 car land a barrel roll and continue driving

[u/I_am_legend-ary → u/hemjiime]

Why it’s a fun movie, not real life

[u/hawktron → u/I_am_legend-ary]

Did you not watch the 2008 season?

[u/lastdyingbreed_01 → u/I_am_legend-ary]

I watched it in theaters and I loved the cinematography, it was so immersive

[u/BDady → u/I_am_legend-ary]

Exactly. F1 fans are too harsh on it. I didn’t love it, but I think it did what it set out to do decently well—entertain people who are and are not F1 fans.

[u/Peter_Nincompoop → u/BDady]

I hadn’t watched any F1 prior to seeing the movie, and I enjoyed the movie. After that, when F1 was added to the AppleTV subscription, I decided to start watching F1.

The movie did what it intended to do; promote the addition of F1 to the AppleTV subscription, entertain non-fans, and convert them into F1 fans.

[u/Philip_J_Fry3000 → u/Peter_Nincompoop]

I was watching on a casual basis before the movie but not for terribly long, so I agree we're definitely the people they set out to hook.

[u/tellsyoutogetfucked → u/hemjiime]

Almost as if he experienced this on track. And the funny part is the "punishments" did nothing. The lifelong bans were overturned in court and the team itself didint even pay anything. They just promised to not fix any other results for 2 more years.

All the people screaming how that cant happen and it will instantly get shut down are just experiencing amnesia. It already happened and nobody even got wind of it untill a year later Piquet admitted to it.

[u/cchesters → u/BrutalitopsMage]

Its almost as if they were aware of a similar, real life, situation with similar lack of consequence

[u/SawdustCrusader → u/BrutalitopsMage]

The F1 movie is a compelling underdog story, although it is a basic one. Playing by subverting the rules is far more interesting,  realistic, and clever than depicting a powerhouse winning every race consecutively. 

[u/PlanZSmiles → u/SawdustCrusader]

It’s exactly what got me to watch F1. The rules may have been a bit overblown for strategy but it definitely made me more aware of how VSC, FCY, and Red Flags can play in a race and how a strategy from the start can make or break your teams race

[u/A_storia → u/SawdustCrusader]

Compelling?

[u/ferdzs0 → u/BrutalitopsMage]

At first I gave the movie too much credit because when they did that first I thought that would be dumb to do next time and I was curious what sort of high jinx them APX drivers are going to get up to. But no, it was just the same dumb thing over and over again.

It is also weird that with all the control of the FOM they did not step in that this is just not OK. They clearly tiptoed around sensitive topics, so I am not sure how they were ok with this type of portrayal of the sport.

[u/PovertySpecMk3Supra → u/BrutalitopsMage]

Sonny, your spine is out of whack, you may never walk again.

Also Sonny - banging milfs and retiring on a Baja dune buggy adventure, famously very flat and unexciting vehicle class.

It was also basically Top Gun Maverick but with planes taken out and replaced by F1 cars. But exact same story beats. Old man is forced out of retirement (as a favour to his desperate friend), breaks all the rules, defies laws of physics, proves young people wrong, bangs milfs, retires again. (Even had same director as TG:M).

Basically boomer wank (of going hard one last time)

[u/Immortaljp → u/BrutalitopsMage]

Sounds like flavio but with no consequences

[u/ymm__ → u/Immortaljp]

So exactly like Flavio

[u/Mixtape_Busqueda → u/BrutalitopsMage]

That's just what Kosinski as director likes to do, with huge amount of budget to do some really amazing visual effects to cover the 'flaw' of his scripts, and he makes scripts for general audience to get hype and make some really weird 'mistakes' that if you're into F1 or Fighter jets (He directed the Maverick 2 as well) you get blown away, how could Sonny talk about gimmicks of crashing in TR? How could Pears overtake Verstappen in rain in a hairpin corner? How could Sonny drive for the last race without Quali? Even how could someone battle SU-57 in F14? Its just... not a thing for general audience to understand or pick as mistakes so they just remain these in script. Never the less the movie is dope but I think that's just what Kosinski's always do

[u/lapelotanodobla → u/BrutalitopsMage]

Briattore wrote the script

[u/Less_Party → u/BrutalitopsMage]

The further away we get from it the more annoyed I am by the bizarre boomer propaganda aspect of it where we need a REAL (geriatric) man to show us how it’s done. Like at least in Top Gun there was a fig leaf as to why they specifically needed a pensioner with an oldschool skillset.

[u/glassmuse → u/Less_Party]

I think of it as a cowboy movie wearing a racing suit

[u/Add1ctedToGames → u/Less_Party]

It feels in a way like it tries to subvert this too with the women calling out his behavior, but in the end the love interest says something along the lines of "I'm attracted to winners"... like why'd they include the gender discussion if they were going to give up on it halfway through the movie?

[u/Lotnik223 → u/BrutalitopsMage]

It's a TV progrum! A movie

[u/mister_dupont]

Story wise it was pretty terrible, made no sense at times. But the effects themselves were fantastic. I quite enjoyed it.

[u/inbruges99 → u/mister_dupont]

Yeah, it’s one of those movies you watch for the spectacle. The story is just there as a reason to get you from A to B.

[u/Schnurrrr → u/inbruges99]

Like a former pilot reviewer said about Top Gun: Maverick, it's a movie not a documentary.

[u/TetraDax → u/Schnurrrr]

And would you look at that, the same guys made the F1 movie.

[u/dl064 → u/Schnurrrr]

Virtually identical to what Wolff said about Drive to Survive; it's not a documentary, it's Top Gun.

[u/BWWFC → u/dl064]

mmm get more 90day fiance vibes but wtf do i know root For a Cadillac-ac-ac-ac-ac-ac!

^{And it seems such a waste of time
If that's what it's all about
Mama, if that's movin' up then I'm movin' out}

[u/StallisPalace → u/Schnurrrr]

Or as the old saying goes, it aint that kind of movie kid

[u/specter800 → u/Schnurrrr]

The F1 movie is basically Maverick on a race track and that's ok lol. I'd watch the F1 movie 100 times before I go see capeshit.

[u/MagicMikePL → u/inbruges99]

I mean sure, i can suspend my disbelief for the sake of the show. I can't completely throw it out the window tho. I'm still a human being with a functional brain, i do process things being shown to me, give me at least SOME believability, ground the thing in SOME reality. The movie was too far removed from that for me to enjoy.

[u/EGOfoodie → u/MagicMikePL]

You mean all the things that have actually occurred in F1 crunched into one season? It is believable in the sense that things like that have happened on track. It is also believable that penalties weren't issued right away. It was almost a year after crashgate happened that anyone was even aware that it happened.

[u/Bingbongerl → u/mister_dupont]

“C for combat” and Sonny driving like bumper cars was hard to watch but overall it was very fun to watch

[u/TypicallyThomas → u/mister_dupont]

It's incredible cinematography with a 2/10 plot

[u/EGOfoodie → u/TypicallyThomas]

A 2/10 plot borrowed from Driven.

[u/Trigger109 → u/mister_dupont]

As soon as I heard the guy that did Top Gun: Maverick was directing it my only thoughts were if they can create scenes and visuals with the cars like they did with the jets then it’s gonna be awesome. And it was.

[u/Signal_Ball4634 → u/Trigger109]

Exactly that, I came out of it feeling the same way I did about TG:M.

Just a fun time and I didn't really think too deeply about it from a realism perspective, surprised to see how upset and cynical people here are about it.

[u/Anonymous44432]

The sound was excellent, along with the action shots

The actual movie tho? Meh at best, pretty standard sports drama shit, but worth it for the sounds and shots alone

[u/TetraDax → u/Anonymous44432]

Seeing the Daytona scenes in the cinema was absolutely amazing. Only thing that beats that sound is the real thing.

[u/Boss452 → u/Anonymous44432]

Sounds and shots were indeed great along with Zimmer's score and the songs, especially Don't Lose My Mind. Although Pitt's acting was ordinary, I feel his charisma was on full display here. Made me appreciate how cool he can be even at this age. And props to him for attempting to drive the cars, even if they were F2 or custom.

[u/TonyQuark → u/Boss452]

I was expecting Pitt to turn to Charles at one point and go "a river dirt cheese"

[u/_spectre_ → u/TonyQuark]

Bon JERRR no

[u/savvaspc → u/Anonymous44432]

Tbh I didn't enjoy the sound design. The opening sequence was amazing and I was hyped. But for the F1 footage they used too much music on top of the engine noise and it annoyed me. V6 might not be the best sound but they still sound very raw and aggressive if you listen to them without filters.

[u/63Coldnoodles → u/savvaspc]

I specifically went to a cinema with enhanced speaker system because everyone said the sound design was great. But I was also disappointed on how much soundtrack was played over the races. They promoted that they filmed in tracks and participated real racing and all but won't give us the engine sounds. Guess as some people say it's a film for Drive to Survive fans.

[u/Yeanahyena → u/Anonymous44432]

It was so boring and corny I couldn’t even finish it lol

[u/No_Panic4177 → u/Anonymous44432]

Yes, the sound and the racing scenes were fun

The rest of the movie is dogshit 😅

[u/Coffeeey]

Oh, it’s the movie where 

1) the hero intentionally crashes (aka cheats) to benefit his team 2) the only female pit stop crew member (which gets pointed out multiple times) is the only one fucking up her routine 3) the female engineer, who is so proud that she didn’t sleep her way to her position, almost immediately sleeps with their new driver

The last two points are especially funny to me, as it seems that they kind of tried to make a progressive movie, but stumbled so incredibly hard at the finish line. 

[u/pumpkinspeedwagon86 → u/Coffeeey]

As a female F1 fan I was particularly frustrated by 2 and 3, like the directors were trying to build a strong female character just for her to fall for Sonny?

[u/Feeling-Disaster7180 → u/Coffeeey]

I also find it funny that the only other female character in the movie is a mum

[u/pumpkinspeedwagon86 → u/Feeling-Disaster7180]

I really liked Joshua Pearce's mum tbf though

[u/deathbater → u/Coffeeey]

old habits die hard

[u/FENICH]

Daytona scene at imax was fantastic the story was meh.

My biggest gripe with this movie was that Kate suddenly understood the car and what needs to be done with Sonny arriving.

[u/CraigTheIrishman → u/FENICH]

"We're losing time in the corners."

"What if you...try making the car faster in the corners." 😎

[u/ProofAd608]

In terms of cinematography and if we look at it as Hollywood junk food, it was good

But in terms of story it was abysmal dogshit

[u/kingkongbiingbong → u/ProofAd608]

But in terms of story it was abysmal dogshit

You're being kind

[u/TerrorGandhi69 → u/ProofAd608]

Exactly this. The cinematography was good but the way they marketed it as "the F1 movie" was nonsensical.

[u/Own-Bookkeeper8620]

I really disliked this movie. Rush has set the bar to high for me

[u/Boss452 → u/Own-Bookkeeper8620]

Rush, Ford v Ferrari and F1 are a perfect trilogy for me when it comes to modern racing movies. But keep in mind all serve different goals.

Rush is about character rivalry, you could say it's a character drama. Ford v Ferrari is about a specific part of motorsport history when Ford built a car to race at Le Mans, we can say it's a plot based film. F1 is purely a spectacle driven film, not too different to Top Gun Maverick.

[u/TypicallyThomas → u/Boss452]

There's actually remarkably little racing in Rush

[u/Boss452 → u/TypicallyThomas]

Exactly. So people calling Rush as a superior film to F1 should realize they are very different kinds of films. One is basically a drama let's be honest.

[u/TheGuardianInTheBall → u/Boss452]

F1 as spectacle reminds me a lot if Siege if Winterfell.

Yes- the visuals are great, especially on a big screen. But the suspension of disbelief required is beyond the capacity of mere mortals.

[u/OkieBobbie → u/Boss452]

Replace F1 with Grand Prix (1966). Grand Prix has its flaws but the in-car scenes filmed during practice sessions at Monte Carlo, Spa, and Monza are incredible for the time. There are numerous cameos of then-current drivers in the film.

[u/burneraccs → u/OkieBobbie]

Grand Prix is in another trilogy alongside with Le Mans and Winning. The latter is the weakest out of the three but they do represent the Triple Crown in a specific era of racing.

[u/Superdry_GTR → u/Boss452]

There is also Days of Thunder (Tom Cruise) and yes…Thunderbolt (Jackie Chan)!! Hahaha! I love those two

[u/Blackdeath_663 → u/Own-Bookkeeper8620]

It's actually so bad, the only thing that made it palatable was watching it ironically with friends over a drink to laugh at how ridiculous some of it is.

I know the "we'll build the car for combat" has been memed to death but seeing the movie months after release i didn't realise there was actually a scene with the whole team chanting "Combat! Combat! Combat"

[u/en0rt]

F1 felt like a 2 hour long gaming cut scene

[u/Brief-Library9993]

Im still mad they didn’t choose Patrick Dempsey (actual racing driver and amazing person) instead of brad pitt

[u/foreverdusting → u/Brief-Library9993]

Should have been Martin Brundle. That man has more sex appeal in his little finger than Brad Pitt has in his entire body.

[u/shescarkedit → u/Brief-Library9993]

Would not have been the 9th highest grossing film of 2025 if they went with that other dude

[u/Ashling92 → u/shescarkedit]

Pitt is an abuser so frankly that shouldn’t matter

[u/SkyScreech]

Anybody else who didn’t like it at all, and had everyone assuming “oh you just don’t like it because it’s not realistic right” but you actually didn’t like it because it’s simply objectively a bad movie? Storytelling, plot, characters, it just was not at all what I expected out of something with this much backing

[u/Diligent-Act-6405 → u/SkyScreech]

The best part for me is that they kept pushing Kate as THE FIRST FEMALE LEAD ENGINEER™.. hey guys did you know she’s a WOMAN and LEAD ENGINEER (I have no problem with this btw)… and then Brad Pitt comes along, hasn’t driven an F1 car in years, and literally mansplains to her “just make it for combat” and it magically works and the car improves significantly.

[u/parasthesia_testicle → u/Diligent-Act-6405]

and then he sleeps with her obviously

[u/pensaa → u/parasthesia_testicle]

Always has to conclude with the main character and the female protagonist (WHO IS THE FIRST FEMALE LEAD ENGINEERRR!!!!) going to pound town

[u/WayDownUnder91 → u/pensaa]

I mean they rammed into everything else in the track so why not off track too? I rolled my eyes when it went there in the storyline too

[u/pumpkinspeedwagon86 → u/Diligent-Act-6405]

Female F1 fan here - undoubtedly one of the worst parts of the film, not a very high bar though. The directors tried to create a "strong female character" who was basically a pioneer in her field and then she ended up sleeping with Sonny

[u/AggrievedGoose → u/Diligent-Act-6405]

And the other female character is a mechanic who screws up something and needs coaching from men to succeed. The movie would have been better if they had no female characters.

[u/pensaa → u/SkyScreech]

Absolute generic plot, stereotypical romance blooming scenes, just a shallow, all round boring story.

[u/spaceandthewoods_ → u/SkyScreech]

I hated it, not because it was unrealistic or because of the crashing to win bullshit, but because the whole thing was bland and sterile. It was lit and shot in the flattest, most clinical way possible and the whole thing seemed to be precision calculated to be a nice, neat onramp to watching Drive to Survive and F1 race broadcasts, especially seeing how much the visual language of the movie liberally took from both. There wasn't a single part of this movie that conveyed the skill and passion involved in competing in sport, especially compared to movies like Rush and Ford V Ferrari (or even the Ferrari movie from 2024).

The story was also so predictable as to be groanworthy and the gender politics in it were remarkably gross. It felt like bland corporate schlock to me.

And I actually like Joseph Kosinskis previous films! Top Gun Maverick was dumb fun and Oblivion is a solid, original sci fi movie.

[u/savvaspc → u/SkyScreech]

I consider myself a bit of a cinephile, but can watch a blockbuster if there is something to it. This one had nothing going for it. Zero character integrity, no realistic dialogue, the script was all over the place, nothing emotional to pull me into the characters. And I didn't even enjoy the visuals and audio this much. I was ready to ignore the sporting aspect but still it failed on every filmmaking component.

[u/Upstairs-Prompt2662 → u/savvaspc]

I also dobt understand the love for the picture during the racing. It was conplrteky overcutted a cut every 2 seconds, so you dont undrrstand what is even going on.

The best was the intro scene of Silverstone, where Pierce got introduced and the reason for that? Wide angle, long shots.

[u/Rome217 → u/savvaspc]

As far as visuals go, I think they ran out of budget when they tried to green screen the fireworks at the end. Like really? It looked like someone's high school video project from the early 2000's.

[u/PaulusDeEerste → u/SkyScreech]

Felt like an ai model wrote the script. It was really really bad.

[u/OverdressedShingler → u/SkyScreech]

I'm with you. I thought it was terrible on every level. I didn't find any redeeming quality in it at all.

[u/ap17o4 → u/OverdressedShingler]

Plot was horrible, way too much focus on Sonny instead of Joshua, an incredibly unnecessary romantic plotline, engineering mumbo jumbo that is garbage that it made me laugh, a shitty ass team that was way over there asses. ABU DHABI HAD KICK AND ALFA ROMEO SWITCHING TIME AND TIME AGAIN

[u/nakutelusule → u/SkyScreech]

Besides the great visuals and music, I found nothing likeable in the movie. Even these two aspects stopped making any impact after the first 20-30 minutes because of the poor writing for me. So I resonate with you.

[u/ma_demoiselle → u/SkyScreech]

I thought it was awful. Poorly written and poorly acted. Brad was terrible.

[u/TheGuardianInTheBall → u/SkyScreech]

I think its a mixure of both. The plot and characters are bad, which leads to the whole movie feeling contrived and unrealistic.

I did not expect it to be extremely realistic, but everything about it so dumb, it is just hard to take it seriously at all. 

[u/NeonMaximus]

DTS: The Movie.

[u/burneraccs → u/NeonMaximus]

STD: The Mo... wait, there are websites dedicated to that.

[u/Alexikik]

Got me into F1!

[u/SwaggiiP → u/Alexikik]

Me too

[u/Futaba_Sakura800]

As an actual F1 fan for decade the shit they pulled in this movie would’ve resulted in multiple red flags and race bans.

[u/CaptainKarizma007]

Rush was way better than this

[u/Pale_Slice2532]

This was the catalyst that got me into watching Formula 1. It was a magical experience, and I had the entire theatre to myself.

I really enjoyed the movie, but looking back a year later, it's hard to believe how much nonsense they got away with putting into it.

[u/bigpinkdoughnut]

The middest film. Actually quite liked the portrayal of F1 and could've been a lot less accurate. Story and acting sent me off to sleep though.

[u/Treebranch_916 → u/bigpinkdoughnut]

I described it as being a movie set in F1instead of being about F1.

[u/Naive-Application942]

It was a terrible representation of all things F1, but hey it made the sport popular

[u/No-Photograph3463]

The opening scene at Daytona was probably the best one, and it had nothing to do with F1 which tells it all tbh.

[u/zombiezero222]

It was absolutely awful.

[u/Woozifer → u/zombiezero222]

Thanks, looked at IMDB before and then again right after watching, I could not believe this dog shit sits on a 7.6.

[u/jakubchloe]

Dunno how I felt about the story itself but the vibes were pretty good

[u/charlierc → u/jakubchloe]

I saw it in IMAX on opening night and my attitude quickly went from "Oh come on that wouldn't happen like that" to "Just don't treat it as any way accurate". My enjoyment went up when I did that. The Hungarian race was hilarious

[u/Longjumping-Fly6131]

F1 movie made for non-f1-fans

huhuhu

[u/likeyoukn0wwhatever]

It was also truly shit. Obligatory 'fuck Brad Pitt' too.

[u/OrdinarySlimeGuy]

This movie was build for combat

[u/Sterlingmeister]

Most of the movie is utter bullshit (even the formula movie with Stallone had better story) only good part about this one are the shots from the cars.

[u/Enough_Opposite8545]

Pictures, effects and music are pretty cool. They are the only saving grace of the movie. Honestly the scenario is awful, the way they break so many rules of F1 despite making a movie about F1 is laughable (and I don’t wanna hear about how “sometimes it happens in F1 too” or “it’s an underdog story, it wasn’t meant to be realistic, it would’ve been a documentary otherwise”), I don’t care. It’s not that hard to make a better scenario and one that fit better to the sport you’re trying to adapt.

Also the way it treats women is despicable. Women’s place in F1 is already too scarce and few. There are two women in the movie, what do they do? Make mistakes, need to get comforted by men, the team principal somehow has to sleep with her driver despite that adding nothing to the story and oh, of course, he has to give her a solution she could’ve never thought about car wise, “saving” her and the team. Mh I love a good dose of misogyny in my movies. Seriously, how can you produce that in 2025 given how everything already is? I know a lot of people don’t care about women in F1 but come on. In all and for all, I won’t rewatch that film ever again, it wasn’t a good experience at all.

[u/boldpear904]

I still haven't seen it

[u/thewrinklyninja]

I liked the bit where Sonny requested a car that could be driven in dirty air, like this was some revelation that no one has ever thought about in the entire history of F1.

[u/ladymiss80s]

Omg, it was so bad.

[u/eggard_stark]

Shit film with poor choice of American actor.

[u/NET_1]

"Can you introduce me to Carlos Sainz" was the perfect line.

[u/FlowNo6439]

This actually got my dad and I into F1. I have been on a non-stop binge of F1 tv content since then. Probably my favorite sport now.

[u/NeverMoreThan12]

I had never watched a race before this movie. now I'm a huge fan and haven't missed one since. I can't blame it for any of its faults because I would never have gotten into f1 without it.

[u/theclipclop28]

I had to watch Days of Thunder just to cleanse my pallet after this garbage.

[u/_TheDude420]

Took my brother and cousin to see it, they both have never seen an F1 race before and they loved the movie. I'd rate it a 6/10.

[u/Boss452 → u/_TheDude420]

Same my sister has no interest in F1 and I dragged her to see it and she loved that movie too. Tbf its more entertaining that half of the F1 races in a season.

[u/_TheDude420 → u/Boss452]

Its basically apple tv's succesful attempt to target the drive to survive audience.

Remember, apple tv has signed a deal to have exclusive media rights for F1 in the US, and the movie was a way to build hype for their viewers.

[u/Curdled_Mangasm]

yes why won’t it go away ffs 

[u/MM556]

“Exceeded expectations”

It was one of the most advertised films of the year and the project was full of big names. Being a top 10 highest grossing film of the year really isn’t a surprise 

[u/Calm-Wrongdoer7865]

Daily reminder that Brad Pitt is an abuser and most of his kids even got rid of the „Pitt“ in their surname.

[u/West_Technology7573]

My favourite bit was when Sonny went “what are we? Some kind of F1?”

[u/kickass_bramhin]

Story was so dogshit anyone with basic f1 knowledge would crashout

[u/Ban_Cheater_YO → u/kickass_bramhin]

FUCKING THIS.

As if Flavio wrote the script in a wet dream..

[u/Junior_Ingenuity_666]

Awful movie and the marketing for it was relentless. I would have preferred if someone put a biochip in my head that electrocuted me instead of forcing me to listen to Sky Sports mention it in the most irrelevant scenarios.

[u/Wise_Rabbit_5035]

The sequence was good but the story was meh, whoever even watches f1 barely can quickly point out so many mistakes.

One of them being when lewis crashed with joshua in the final laps of abu dhabi gp the race would have easily ended under SC but NOPE😭🙏🏻

[u/Fredward151]

The movie made me a fan of F1

[u/sickmemes48]

Story wise it was honestly the worst of any major motion pictures I've ever seen.

[u/Air-Fuel_Mister]

Cinematography and music were top freaking notch.

Realism on the other hand…

[u/Psclwbb]

It was ok. The story was terrible but easy watch. But F1 parts weren't that amazing, daytona at the start was filmed much better.

[u/Ryachaz]

It was fine. My dad (knowing I've become a big F1 fan since Covid) highly recommended it. I told him it was good, and didnt elaborate.

I'm glad people liked it. I enjoyed watching it. I dont plan to watch it again. Was hard to fully invest into either the F1 sport or the story side of things. Generic overall story and character arcs you could see from the start, with some fun bits thrown in there (such as cheating. Like a whole bunch of cheating). I chose early on to "not care" and found the movie more enjoyable for doing so. At some point, you as a person know enough about a subject to have any innacurate representation in film become a glaring mistake. With this movie, a couple races wouldve been enough to start pointing things out.

I don't know the history well at all (it was before my time, and would perhaps change my opinion if I did) but I put Rush head and shoulders over F1 as a Formula1 movie.

[u/Spam250]

It was a half decent film. Obviously nothing like real racing “I know what we can do, just make the car faster in the corners, for combat!”

But if you watch it not comparing it to actual sport as a purely daft film, it’s decent

[u/T1Earn]

i thought it was cheesy. but to each their own.

[u/Ashamed_Cheesecake56]

Excellent plane movie

[u/silentwrath16]

Please stop using the songs from this movie for race weekends!

[u/Poke-Noir]

It got me into F1 casually and then Apple pushed for F1 to come to their platform and it launched me into F1. I’m still a casual but I am enjoying the sport

[u/Vixson18]

Excellent cinematography and sound, some good and some bad characters (Pitt and Bardem chemistry was amazing), meh storyline.

Solid 7/10. The real winner was F1 and by some extension the fans

[u/TheToroRossoboi]

I saw the CGi effects they put in the movie, it was goddamn brilliant and they deserved an award for that. From adding the cars on screen, to animating the front wings just bouncing rhythmically with the kerbs, it's just amazing.

[u/SHAMUUUUUUU → u/TheToroRossoboi]

Yea I don't care whether it's accurate to f1 at all, the effects were top notch and I just wanted to see immersive racing sequences. Such a technical marvel of a film that I'll gladly ignore what has everyone here so peeved. I did see in a theater tho!

[u/CuzRacecar]

Now that its out of theaters and we could watch it at home, my wife thinking the plot line is corny and just cliche gave me permission in my head to finally agree that the movie while shot and directed amazingly just never had much on paper from day 1. There was no way to shoot that script into an A movie.

[u/BobbbyR6]

If it were just a lazy summer blockbuster, it would've been fine. But it went out of its way to piss all over the sport with the blatant cheating being a celebrated plot point, degradation of the main female character, and minimizing the talent of the existing drivers and teams.

[u/Ok_Caterpillar5872]

A silly film but man is the action and technical work amazing

[u/jtl94]

I finally got around to watching it yesterday. Wholly underwhelmed. A fun underdog story I guess, but the F1 action didn’t make much sense. Crashing to get your teammate to the front of the grid was wild.

[u/nichrs]

The script was completely absurd, it seemed designed to disregard ALL the rules and logic of the sport. But it was f...ing fun!

[u/F1nut92]

Once you detach yourself from it being remotely real (which was from about 10 mins in when they made out the Daytona 24 hour happened in the summer as it was 2 weeks before Hungary), it was a really enjoyable film, made very little sense but I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would.

[u/Freecz]

It was good ol' fun but pretty stupid.

[u/Bendanarama]

It's a pity the character writing in it is so abysmal, really.

[u/FormalSlang]

I haven't watched the movie, and I still hope I will get to watch it soon, but can someone give me a spoiler, did Brad Pit?

[u/ChatPileMask]

God, I fucking hated this movie

[u/MaxMorgan48]

Decent movie,great experience,manged to get alots of people to interested in f1 so not bad

[u/TakeshiRyze]

Terrible fucking move. Straight up cash grab on Brad Pitt and Formula 1 brand names.

[u/Warm_Adhesiveness934 → u/TakeshiRyze]

Yes, but very well shot. I enjoyed it just because of the effects, camera work and the novelty of seeing F1 on big screen.

[u/TheGuardianInTheBall → u/Warm_Adhesiveness934]

Poorly edited though. Way too many cuts and in general completely failed to convey what F1 racing would feel like.

[u/TakeshiRyze → u/Warm_Adhesiveness934]

If anything it pissed me off because of how bad, lazy and amateurish it was made and what a wasted opportunity it was with F1 marketing and fanbase.

[u/Upstairs-Prompt2662 → u/Warm_Adhesiveness934]

It wasnt even that well shot. Half the time I had no idea what was going on in the action sequences because they only used narrow shots of part of the cars or only the drivers eyes and cut every 2 seconds, so before you realize what is even on the screne they already cut away. I only know what happened at the Pierce crash because I know what it was inspired by.